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Jesuit priest will discuss his new book, A Persistent Peace: One Man’s Struggle for a Nonviolent World
Author, activist, and Noble Peace Prize nominee John Dear, S.J. will discuss his latest book, A Persistent Peace: One Man’s Struggle for a Nonviolent World, at 7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 17 in Oechsle Hall room 224.
Sponsored by the government and law department, the religious studies department, and the Lehigh-Pocono Committee of Concern, this stop on Dear’s national book tour is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Katalin F�bi�n, assistant professor of government and law, at x5392. Copies of the book will be available for purchase at the event.
Dear, who describes his former self as a “spoiled, wealthy frat boy,” is a Jesuit priest who has spent almost 30 years as a nonviolent peace activist. Dear has organized hundreds of demonstrations against war and nuclear weapons. His work has taken him to war zones around the world, including Iraq, where he led a delegation of Nobel Peace Prize winners to witness the effects of sanctions on Iraqi children. He has been arrested over 75 times due to his actions and beliefs.
A Persistent Peace invites readers to follow his decades-long journey of spiritual growth, and to witness his bold, decisive, often unpopular actions before government, military, and religious officials. This is the 25th book that Dear has authored or edited.
“Gandhi, Dorothy Day, Dr. King, the Berrigans, and Merton were right: nonviolence holds the key to personal, social, and global transformation,” says Dear. “Steadfast, organized nonviolence does work; it leads to new avenues of justice, peace, and hope.”