All Episodes

#71 John Dear with professor and theologian Kate Common on the two of the Great Heresies, the nonviolent origins of the Hebrew community and her book "Undoing Conquest".

#70 With Bishop Mariann Budde of the National Cathedral on returning to Minneapolis this January: “There was a sense of resolve, horror, exhaustion, fear and defiance. I've never been part of anything like it.”

#69: On the 10th anniversary of the death of my friend and mentor Daniel Berrigan: May 9, 1921-April 30, 2016: "War has become the ultimate antiChrist."

#68 With Prof. Melanie Harris of Black Feminist and Womanist Theologies on Ecowomanism and Earth Honoring Faiths: "What does the Divine intend for all of humanity?"

#67 With David Cortright, leading scholar on war, peace, and nonviolent resistance: "we have brought about historic change".

#66 With Kerry Kennedy, author, lawyer, and human rights activist on her family, her faith, and her work with the Kennedy Human Rights Center: "We all have ways of making our country better."

#65 John Dear with Jim Finley, author, clinical psychologist, former Trappist monk, and host on Richard Rohr's CAC podcast "Turning to the Mystics": "Jesus is God's complete surrender to us."

#64 With writer and scholar Daniel Hunter, founder of Choose Democracy and widely read on wagingnonviolence.org: "The goal is for us to be intimidated and walk away".

#63 With Jonathan Kuttab of Palestine, co-founder of Palestinian human rights group Al-Haq and co-founder of Nonviolence International: “Most Christian Palestinians are nonviolent peacemakers, and have been since the 1st century,”

#62 Amy Brooks Paradise, minister and Greenfaith organizer: " We are made for times like this, this is exactly what people in faith are for!"

#61 Part 2 of 2: John Dear on "Universal Love, Surrendering to the God of Peace": "You want me to get rid of my guns?"

#60 Part 1 of 2: John Dear on his newest book "Universal Love, Surrendering to the God of Peace": "We have more power as ordinary people than we realize".

#59 With retired US Army Colonel and peace activist Ann Wright: "Make sure you write your Congress before breakfast every day!"

#58 With activist, theologian and scripture scholar Ched Myers on "Sabbath Economics" and "Resisting Plutocracy": "Concentrated wealth underlies every form of violence."

#57 With Emily Yellin on her new posthumous memoir of Civil Rights leader Jim Lawson: "Nonviolent: My Life of Resistance, Agitation and Love"

#56 With Mike Farrell from M*A*S*H, actor, producer, writer, and political and social activist: "I don't understand how anybody who believes in Christ could support the death penalty".

#55 MLK DAY With Rev. Andrew Young, activist, author, politician, diplomat, and Dr Martin Luther King's right-hand man: "I was asked to come to Alabama in case MLK didn't show up, but we both showed up".

#54 Charlene Howard, Executive Director of Pax Christi USA: "Don't be fooled into thinking that we are not gaining ground for the good and for peace, because we are.”

#53 With Robert Ellsberg, one of our best spiritual writers in the country, publisher and editor of Orbis Books and author of Volume 2, Blessed Among Us

#52 A Special Year End One Hour Episode of Highlights of the Nonviolent Jesus Podcast from 2025 featuring Joan Baez, Cornel West, Joan Chittister, John Fugelsang, Martin Sheen, Richard Rohr and many more!

#51 With John Dear: "Epiphanies come at night. They are political. The story of the Magi is our story!"

#50 With John Dear: Did a Holy Jewish mother teach Jesus to be nonviolent? Mary's story of her Advent journey.

#49 with former Mennonite pastor, blacksmith, author, activist and founder of RAWtools.org Mike Martin: "We're using raw tools, not war tools to transform the world".

#48 With Congressman Jamie Raskin: ""We're in the fight of our lives and have been since the beginning of this nightmare.”

#47 With network producer, filmmaker and author Gerry Straub: "In this horrible place of screaming kids and gun shots, something beautiful was created.” 

#46 With Wes Granberg-Michaelson, global ecumenical leader, speaker and author of "The Soulwork of Justice": "Here are my 8 guideposts for activists"!

#45 With Dr. Ivana Hughes, President of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation: "We’ve been really lucky that nuclear war has not happened. There have been many, many close calls.”

#44 With legendary folk singer/songwriter, activist, and artist Joan Baez: “Carry your light into the shit storm!"

#43 With Sr. Simone Campbell, author, activist, attorney and 2022 recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom on her new book "Hunger for Hope": "I love being on fire!" Part 2 of 2

#42 With Sr. Simone Campbell, author, attorney, leader of "Nuns on the Bus" and recipient of 2022 Presidential Medal of Freedom: "Liar, liar, pants on fire" Part 1 of 2

#41 John Dear With author, educator and former military Captain Paul Chappell: “The idea that peace is inevitable is dangerous.”

#40 With John Dear on the nonviolent Jesus and the Things that Make for Peace: "America, America, if this day you only knew the things that make for peace!"

#39 With John Fugelsang, actor, podcast and radio host, comedian and bestselling author of "Separation of Church and Hate": “Why should I listen to Trump and Stephen Miller and reject the words of Jesus?”

#38 With Archbishop John Wester: "Who's really naive? Those who think we can live with nuclear weapons or those who think we can live without them?"

#37 with John Dear on Gandhi, and why he was one of the greatest Christians who ever lived...

Episode #36 with Stanley Hauerwas, "America's Greatest Theologian": ‘You can kill us, but you cannot determine the meaning of our death.’

#35 with Rivera Sun, activist and author of "The Dandelion Insurrection": "Find what you want to work on and do that, because we need you in the movement!”

#34 with Ken Butigan, author, organizer, activist and nonviolence trainer: “We have been preparing for this moment; we have more power than we think!”

#33 with activist Brad Wolf on "The Ministry of Risk": "Philip Berrigan was the first priest ever to get arrested in the US!"

#32 Former priest, author, organizer Terry Rynne: "It all started with Gandhi's salt march and I found two heroes in one day".

#31 John Dear: "This verse contains the most radical, political, revolutionary words in the Bible!"

#30 Michele Dunne, director of the Franciscan Action Network: "I was a diplomat but I was also much part of the empire that approves of force, violence, oppression, and unjust policies "

#29 with Rev. Charles McCarthy: "Action not motivated by love is ineffective in countering evil and death, my enemy is not God's enemy."

#28 Art Laffin, peaceactivist, author and Catholic Worker: "Miracles have occured during our protest actions".

#27 Author of the national bestseller "Race Matters", Dr. Cornel West: “We are witnessing the collapse and implosion of the American empire in real time.”

#26 with Kathy Kelly, Nobel Peace Prize nominee and peace activist: "Don't be afraid, seek ways to embrace the so-called enemy."

#25 : Professor Michael Nagler on teaching nonviolence through meditation and spirituality and the destiny of the human race

24 "We are 89 seconds to nuclear midnight": Activist and author Frida Berrigan shares her experiences growing up in a household of full time resistance

23: "We're in the middle of a coup": with theologian, Episcopal priest and activist Matthew Fox.

Episode #22. John Dear on the Most Revolutionary--and Most Disobeyed--Teaching in the Gospels: Mt. 5:39

#21 "The nonviolent Jesus hasn't been preached enough in our churches:" Bishop John Stowe of Lexington, Kentucky and head of Pax Christi, on how we can transform a world shaken by violence, terrorism, deepening inequalities, and global insecurity.

#20 John Dear speaks with political scientist, author, teacher, advocate and organizer Maria Stephan on how ordinary people can bring about extraordinary change: “The resistance is alive and well across the United States today."

#19: “The Two Great Inventions of the 20th Century” Legendary Environmental Activist Bill McKibben talks to John Dear about this, his new book, Sun Day and more!

🎙#18: "I see Trump as a deeply traumatized person": Fr. John Dear in conversation with author Kazu Haga on his new book "Fierce Vulnerability: Healing from Trauma, Emerging through Collapse"

#17, “Start a revolution! Shake things up! The world is deaf. You have to open its ears.” Fr. John Dear on Pope Francis—The Most Radical Pope in History.

#16 "We are experiencing the thrashing of empire and the death throes of capitalism": with Martha Hennessy, worker, activist, and granddaughter of Dorothy Day,

#15: "Contrary to what a lot of people see or think, there is more protest and resistance to Trump than you see in the mainstream media" with Eric Stoner, co-founder and editor of WagingNonviolence.org

🎙Episode #14 with Bryan Stevenson: legendary lawyer, author of best-selling book "Just Mercy" and executive director of Equal Justice Initiative

#13 – The Nonviolent Jesus: "Jesus is a nonviolent general leading a peace revolution:"  How to Build a Nonviolent Movement Today with Fr. John Dear

#12 –The Nonviolent Jesus: "Our love doesn't stop at our own borders" with author, activist, and founder of Red Letter Christians, Shane Claiborne

#11 –The Nonviolent Jesus: "Decide how you want to show up: this is your one and only life!" with best-selling author, theologian and activist Brian McLaren 

#10 – The Nonviolent Jesus: "Nonviolence is the only way forward" with Marie Dennis 

#9 The Nonviolent Jesus: "How to be a human being" with Sr. Joan Chittister & Fr. John Dear on “Jesus and the Beatitudes” (Part 3 of 3)

#8: The Nonviolent Jesus: "It's so easy!" Fr. John Dear with Sr. Joan Chittister on “Jesus and the Beatitudes” (Part 2 of 3)

#7 The Nonviolent Jesus: Fr. John Dear & Sr. Joan Chittister on "Jesus and the Beatitudes" Part 1 of 3

6. The Nonviolent Jesus: Fr. John Dear on "The Nonviolence of Jesus: 10 Essentials"

5. The Nonviolent Jesus: With Fr. Richard Rohr, best-selling author, priest, and prophetic teacher

4. The Nonviolent Jesus: With Sr Helen Prejean, best-selling author of Dead Man Walking

3. The Nonviolent Jesus: Fr. John Dear with Dr. Bernard Lafayette

2. The Nonviolent Jesus: With actor and activist Martin Sheen and how his movies and activism have shaped his life

#1 The Nonviolent Jesus Podcast: An introduction with Fr. John Dear on “Living the Beatitudes”

The Nonviolent Jesus Podcast: Trailer