How does a "spoiled, affluent frat boy" go from beer-chugging contests in a Duke University fraternity to accord activism and added than 75 arrests in the name of the irenic Jesus? John Dear, SJ, a 2008 Nobel Peace Prize nominee, tells his adventure in A Persistent Peace: One Man's Struggle for a Nonviolent World. An E-book is aswell available.
Chicago, IL (Vocus/PRWEB ) March 27, 2009 -- How does a "spoiled, affluent frat boy" go from beer-chugging contests in a Duke University fraternity to accord activism and added than 75 arrests in the name of the irenic Jesus? John Dear, SJ, a 2008 Nobel Peace Prize nominee, tells his adventure in A Persistent Peace: One Man's Struggle for a Nonviolent World. An E-book is aswell available.
A Persistent Peace: One Man's Struggle for a Nonviolent World
Gandhi, Dorothy Day, Dr. King, the Berrigans, and Merton were right: nonviolence holds the key to personal, social, and all-around transformation Steadfast, organized nonviolence does work; it leads to new avenues of justice, accord and hope. Dear has organized hundreds of demonstrations adjoin war and nuclear weapons. His plan has taken him to war zones about the world, including Iraq, area he led a appointment of Nobel Peace Prize winners to attestant the accoutrement of sanctions on Iraqi children. It hasn't been an simple life. His activism was about not accurate by his superiors, and he was advised "unmissionable" and "disobedient" by one Jesuit superior.
But for Dear, charge to nonviolence is an all-or-nothing proposition. A Persistent Peace is the adventure of his connected and active plan for peace, including his arrests and imprisonments, afterlife threats fabricated adjoin him for criticizing the aggressive (including a blackmail from the ancestor of one of his acceptance at a Jesuit top school, who threatened to shoot him asleep in foreground of his class), and abounding added amazing belief of amusing action for peace.
Dear accomplished a abstruse transformation during academy that began with the agreeable and airy mentorship of the backward applesauce pianist Mary Lou Williams, a Catholic Christian artist-in-residence at Duke. Dear was aswell rocked to the amount by biographies of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr., accountable by their benevolence and charge to nonviolence. His aspirations for success as a pop star, lawyer, or in the ancestors barter of bi-weekly publishing gave way to the priesthood and a activity committed to endlessly war. Dear makes bright that the accord could cause is an burning one that apropos anniversary person.
He shares what he has abstruse in the struggle: "Gandhi, Dorothy Day, Dr. King, the Berrigans, and Merton were right: nonviolence holds the key to personal, social, and all-around transformation," says Dear. "Steadfast, organized nonviolence does work; it leads to new avenues of justice, accord and hope."
A Persistent Peace: One Man's Struggle for a Nonviolent World
by John Dear, SJ
Loyola Press $22.95 hardcover
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