Father John Dear SJ at York St John University Wednesday 5th September at 7.00 pm The Cost of Peace Violence or the Non-Violent Jesus?
Father John Dear SJ, an internationally recognised voice for peace and non-violence, is coming to England this summer.
A Jesuit priest, pastor, peacemaker, retreat leader, and author, he travels the world teaching the active non-violent message of Jesus as epitomised in the lives of Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Junior and Dorothy Day.
He served for years as the Director of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, the largest interfaith peace organisation in the US. After September 11, 2001, he was a Red Cross co-ordinator of chaplains at the Family Assistance Centre in New York, and counselled thousands of relatives and rescue workers. John has travelled the war zones of the world, been arrested some 75 times for peace, led Nobel Peace prize winners to Iraq, given thousands of lectures on peace across the US, and served as a pastor of several churches in the high desert of New Mexico. In 2008, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, along with others, nominated John Dear for the Nobel Peace Prize.
John is the author of many books, his latest being Lazarus, Come Forth! He has published his autobiography, A Persistent Peace, and written and presented his own DVD film, The Narrow Path. He writes a weekly online column for the National Catholic Reporter at www.ncronline.org
Father John’s visit will be the launch for a series of nationwide initiatives/courses that will be taking place in the future.
A collection will be taken at each talk. Suggested donation £10.00.
Wednesday 5th September at 7.00 pm.
Temple Hall, York St John’s, Lord Mayor’s Walk, York, YO31 7EX
Contact: Barbara Hungin: bhungin@yahoo.co.uk