Podcast Episodes

#90: With Fr. Greg Boyle, founder and director of Homeboy Industries in Los Angeles: "If you hate ICE agents, I think your God's too puny."

Season 2 Episode 90

This week I speak with my friend Fr. Greg Boyle, one of the most well known and beloved religious leaders in the world. A Jesuit priest, he has spent…

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#89. Special Episode with John Dear: Dedicated to all whose lives were altered that day: Life and Death at Ground Zero.

This episode is dedicated to the victims of September 11, 2001, and to the countless families whose lives were forever altered by that day.

As we refl…

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#88. Part 1 of 2 special episodes on 9/11: This week with Colleen Kelly of Peaceful Tomorro­ws, an organization founded by family members of those killed on September 11th who united to turn grief into action for peace.

Season 2 Episode 88

This week The Nonviolent Jesus podcast brings 2 special episodes:

Today (part 1 of 2), I speak with my friend Colleen Kelly, who lost her brother in t…

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#87 John Dear with Professor Todd Walatka of Notre Dame on Saint Oscar Romero: "The true church is the one that stands with the poor".

Season 2 Episode 87

One of the key prophets, saints, teachers and models for me is Archbishop Oscar Romero of El Salvador who was assassinated while saying Mass in San S…

2 weeks, 1 day ago

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#86. John Dear with Tim Shriver, chairman of the Special Olympics:"The Special Olympics is a peacemaking movement.”

Season 2 Episode 86

On this episode of “The Nonviolent Jesus Podcast,” I speak with Tim Shriver, chairman of the Special Olympics, a global movement to end discriminatio…

3 weeks, 1 day ago

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#85. John Dear with economist, author, pastor and former president of Bread for the World David Beckmann: "We won't end poverty if we can't talk to each other."

Season 2 Episode 85

This week I speak with David Beckmann, former president of Bread for the World, one of the best groups fighting poverty in the world (www.bread.org).…

4 weeks, 1 day ago

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#84 John Dear on meeting Franziska Jagerstatter in Austria and reflecting on the life and courage of her husband Franz Jagerstatter, one of the few men who refused to fight for Nazi Germany.

Season 2 Episode 84

On this week's episode of The Nonviolent Jesus Podcast, I reflect on Franz Jagerstatter, one of the most important saints in history.

In the late 197…

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#83 With nuclear activist, public educator and publisher Jack Cohen Joppa: " We have to support the activist who ends up in jail if we are to succeed."

Season 2 Episode 83

This week marks the 81st anniversary of the US atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

I plan to take part in several demonstrations in California…

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#82 John Dear on the Raising of Lazarus: "We need to to call humanity forth out of the culture of death, war and empire."

Season 2 Episode 82

On this week's episode I reflect on the Gospel of John, chapter 11, the story of the raising of Lazarus, based on my book, Lazarus Come Forth!

I propo…

1 month, 2 weeks ago

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#81. John Dear with scholar, author and international leader in racial healing Dr. Catherine Meeks: "The culture in the US reinforces the notion that people of color are inferior to white people."

Season 2 Episode 81

On today’s new episode of “The Nonviolent Jesus Podcast,” I speak with my friend Dr. Catherine Meeks, a nationally recognized leader in racial healin…

1 month, 3 weeks ago

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