Last week I attended a lecture by the Jesuit priest peace activist Reverend John Dear. I hesitate to use the word "radical" to describe him, because the word is so often used pejoratively, but there is no other way for me to characterize him. If he hadn't been a member of the Catholic Jesuit order I would have brushed him off as a pot-smoking, guitar strumming hippie. He certainly has the credentials: 75 arrests, months spent behind bars, death threats... I suppose that's what happens when you walk into a military air base and start wailing on their fighter jets with a hammer (which he did, and that's only the tip of the iceberg). Read More »
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