Pax Christi Minnesota

August 30, 2008
Sisters of St Joseph
1884 Randolph Ave
St Paul, MN  55105

Join Witness Against War for a meal, music, and welcome event.

Witness Against War 2008 is a 450 mile walk from Chicago to St. Paul to challenge and nonviolently resist our country’s continuing war in and occupation of Iraq.

Our journey will begin in the City of Chicago, site of the 1968 Democratic Party convention in the midst of the Vietnam War. The walk will conclude on August 31 in St. Paul — in time for the start of the 2008 Republican Party convention in the midst of the Iraq war.

For more information, please contact: nancy@globalexchange.org phone #: 415-342-6409 or http://vcnv.org/witness-against-war.

Preemptive Peacemaking: Just Peace vs. Just War 

Friday, September 19, 2008
7-9pm

Cirque de Guerre a comedic, satirical, play about the mayhem of war told in a series of vignettes. Q & A following the performance.  Commissioned by Every Church A Peace Church.

Saturday, September 20, 2008
9am-3pm

Keynote address, Glen Harold Stassen, Professor of Christian Ethics, Fuller Theological Seminary: Just Peacemaking: The New Paradigm for the Ethics of Peace and War

Held at the O’Shaughnessy Education Center University of St. Thomas, St. Paul Campus.
 
Sponsored by Every Church a Peace Church and Co-sponsored by the University of St. Thomas , Justice and Peace Studies Program and UST Students for Justice and Peace 

For more information, please contact Rod Olsen at 651.228.7224 or joan@pleromacoaching.com or Every Church a Peace Church.

August 23, 2008
St. Frances Cabrini Church
1500 Franklin Ave SE
Minneapolis, MN  55414

Noted theologian Jim Douglass will do a book-reading and book signing of his ground-breaking book, “JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters.”  Jim Douglass presents a compelling, persuasive account of why President John F. Kennedy was assassinated and why the unmasking of this truth remains crucial for the future of our country and the world.  He traces the sequence of events that transforms Kennedy from a conventional Cold Warrior to someone determined to pull the world back from the edge of apocalypse, and argues that, only by unmasking the forces of the “Unspeakable” that killed him, can we free ourselves and our country to pursue Kennedy’s vision of peace. 

The event is sponsored by St. Martin’s Table.

Dear Friends,
 
As you may know, my autobiography, “A Persistent Peace,” (440 pages with a foreword by Martin Sheen) is being published this week, on Friday August 1st, by Loyola Press. I’ve spent many years working on it, and hope it will inspire others to embark on the spiritual journey of peacemaking and Gospel nonviolence. The times are terrible, but there are signs of hope everywhere, and I hope more and more people will take up the nonviolent struggle for justice and disarmament, and spend their lives working to abolish war, poverty, nuclear weapons and global warming, in order to welcome God’s reign of peace in our midst.
 
So I’m writing today to invite you to consider a few ways you can help me spread the word about “A Persistent Peace”:
 
1. Buy the book this weekend! “A Persistent Peace” will be available on Friday August 1st at Amazon.com well as major bookstores. If you purchase the book at Amazon.com on August 1st,  it will help bump it up on the best-sellers list enabling more people to learn about it and major papers to review it.
 
2. Write a Review. If you enjoyed the book, please write a review of it at Amazon.com, or in any journals, newsletters or other places. That would be a big help.
 
3. Tell your friends. Please consider telling your friends, relatives, and networks about the book. You can read about it at: http://www.persistentpeace.com/. Perhaps you might send this email out to your friends, relatives and networks, and ask them to order the book on August 1st as well.
 
4. Support My Fall Book Tour. I’ll be traveling the country throughout the fall, using the book to talk about our journey to peace, the nonviolent way of Jesus, and the need to abolish war, poverty, nuclear weapons and global warming. Perhaps you could come to an event near you and bring your friends. For the schedule, check out: http://www.johndear.org/
 
Thank you for your consideration, your help, and all you do for peace and justice! I am very grateful for anything you might be able to do to help get the word out about “A Persistent Peace.” May the God of peace bless us all with every gift of peace!

Yours in peace,
 
John Dear, S.J.

The 2008 Peace Lantern Float was held at Silver Lake in Rochester.  The weather was beautiful, and the speeches, music, and play were inspiring and reflective.  

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