August Monthly Morning Prayer with Rev. John Dear
August 1 @ 8:00 am – 9:00 am
Join us for August’s Monthly Morning Prayer with Rev. John Dear in conversation, reflection and prayer with Shane Claiborne and Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove!
Rev. John Dear is an internationally recognized voice and leader for peace and nonviolence. A priest, activist, author, and Nobel peace prize nominee, he served for years as the director of the Fellowship of Reconciliation. After 9/11, 2001, he was a Red Cross coordinator of chaplains at the Family Assistance Center in New York, and counseled thousands of relatives and rescue workers. John has traveled the war zones of the world, been arrested some 85 times for peace, led Nobel Peace prize winners to Iraq, given thousands of lectures on peace across the U.S., and served as a pastor of several churches in New Mexico. He arranged on many occasions for Mother Teresa to speak to various governors to stop an impending execution, and helped draft Pope Francis’ Jan. 1, 2017 World Day of Peace message on nonviolence. He is a co-founder of Campaign Nonviolence and the Nonviolent Cities.
His many books include: The Beatitudes of Peace; They Will Inherit the Earth; The Nonviolent Life; Radical Prayers; Walking the Way; A Persistent Peace; Transfiguration; Living Peace; The Questions of Jesus; and most recently, The Gospel of Peace: The Psalms of Peace and Nonviolence in a time of War and Climate Change.
Three years ago, Fr. John Dear founded the online project, “The Beatitudes Center for the Nonviolent Jesus” to offer regular zooms on Jesus, the Sermon on the Mount, and Gospel nonviolence from an array of well-known speakers, as well as free podcasts, free YouTube videos, blogs, and action ideas.
Speakers have included authors and teachers such as Cornel West, Jim Lawson, Rajmohan Gandhi, Marie Dennis, Matthew Fox, Helen Prejean, Robert Ellsberg, Shane Claiborne, Kathy Kelly, Jim Finley, Maria Stephan, Roshi Joan Halifax, Bill McKibben, Medea Benjamin, Archbishop John Wester, Frida Berrigan, Catherine Meeks, and many others. It has become the national hub for speakers on Christian peacemaking, social justice, and creative non-violence.
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Morning prayer takes place at the beginning of each month based on the book, Common Prayer: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals. You can follow along with the readings from Common Prayer at commonprayer.net for free!