This year, thirty nominees were put forward as possible recipients to receive the Pax Christi USA 2021 Teacher of Peace Award. Each year (with the exception of a four year hiatus between 2017-20), Pax Christi USA honors an outstanding peacemaker in the tradition of Sr. Thea Bowman, Dan Berrigan, Cesar Chávez, Dianna Ortiz, Dorothy Day, Ray East, Bishop … Continue reading Nominees announced for 2021 Teacher of Peace Award
BOOK REVIEW: Wes Howard-Brook’s “Come Out, My People! God’s Call Out of Empire in the Bible and Beyond”
by Frank Cordaro, posted on Jesus Radicals I have wanted to read this book for many years. It just was not written yet. Now that it is, we Catholic Workers and faith-based-nonviolent-resistance-to-the-USA-Empire type folks owe Wes Howard-Brook a debt of gratitude. Not since reading Ched Myers’s ground-breaking Binding the Strong Man has a book so influenced my … Continue reading BOOK REVIEW: Wes Howard-Brook’s “Come Out, My People! God’s Call Out of Empire in the Bible and Beyond”