Praise for John Dear

Richard Rohr: "Some teachers are all theory and no practice. John Dear has the earned ability to be both. Some teachers are very orthodox and some open new ground. John Dear puts the two together knowing they are the same."

Jim Wallis: "John Dear is a bright young light in the religious peace movement."

Praise for John Dear's Books

"John Dear has the gift to capture the social gospel as Jesus proclaimed it. I highly recommend this book. He makes the Gospels come alive."
- J. Christoph Arnold, Bruderhof, on Jesus the Rebel

“A deeply moving and profoundly inspiring account of John Dear’s journey of enviable courage, boundless faith, unquestioned hope, and unconditional love.”
- Martin Sheen on Living Peace

"It's a real soul art to be engaged fever pitch in social action and to be a contemplative, too. John Dear, the activist, brings us to the still, dark places where he wrestles demons and waits to be touched by God. We wait with him and are touched, too, by the silence and a quickened desire to live simpler, more generous, more engaged lives."
- Sr Helen Prejean on The Sound of Listening

Fr John Dear, SJ - Australian Tour
February 22 to March 18, 2007

"Our task, in these dark times, is simple: to speak the truth, resist war and injustice, practice nonviolence, walk with the poor, love everyone, say our prayers, and uphold the vision of a new world without war, poverty or nuclear weapons"

Father John Dear SJ - priest, peace activist, and leading theologian of nonviolence - has concluded his tour of Australia. We sincerely thank him for his inspiring witness and prophetic words to the Australian community.

Media

Media Enquiries: Justin Whelan 02 8267 4241

ABC Radio has run a number of segments on John Dear:

Religion Report - listen to a 9 min excerpt (1.15mb wma) of John interviewed by Stephen Crittenden (the full 20 min interview is available on the Religion Report website)
Sunday Nights with John Cleary - listen to John (11.4mb, 33 min) interviewed by Noel Debien
Good Friday special - "The God of Peace" - a recording of John's first public lecture at ACU North Sydney, including the response by Rev Dr Dorothy McRae-McMahon (53 min, streaming only)
Look out also for the ABC Encounter program on April 22 featuring some of John Dear's lecture at North Sydney plus clips from other talks and interviews with Australian religious peace activists. We will post a link to the podcast when it becomes available.

Three 'print' interviews have been published by Eureka Street, Southern Cross and the Catholic Weekly which you may also be interested to read. The former in particular includes some challenging reflections on Australia for us all to ponder. Lastly, John wrote a column for NCR Online from Australia with particular emphasis on some of the things he learned about while here.

Two DVDs are also in production, covering talks given in Adelaide and Sydney. We will post additional details soon.

About John Dear

Fr John Dear is one of the leading voices for peace in the United States. A pastor, peacemaker, retreat leader, and author, John has travelled the war zones of the world, been arrested over 75 times for peace, led Nobel Peace Prize winners to Iraq, and given thousands of lectures on peace and nonviolence across USA. He lives in northern New Mexico and is presently engaged in an ongoing campaign to shut down the nuclear weapons industry in Los Alamos, birthplace of the Bomb.

John is a former Executive Director of Fellowship of Reconciliation, the largest interfaith peace organisation in the U.S., and is a Pax Christi USA Ambassador for Peace. His work for social justice and world peace have won him international admiration and spurred features in The New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR’s All Things Considered, USA TODAY, and the National Catholic Reporter.

John is also the author of 20 books including The God of Peace, Jesus the Rebel, The Questions of Jesus, Mohandas Gandhi: Essential Writings, and the just released Transfiguration (with a foreword by Desmond Tutu). He is currently a weekly columnist for the National Catholic Reporter Online.

More details about John, including a full biography and copies of many of his articles can be found on his website, www.johndear.org

Fr John Dear, SJ - Australian Tour February 22 to March 18, 2007

Fr John Dear, SJ - Australian Tour
February 22 to March 18, 2007