Ep. 431 Fr. John Dear - Surrendering to the God of Peace and Following the Nonviolent Jesus

About this episode

Fr. John Dear discusses his book on peacemaking and the importance of surrendering to God.

In this episode, Fr. John Dear joins me to explore his latest book, Universal Love: Surrendering to the God of Peace and one of the core convictions at the center of it: genuine peacemaking begins not with better strategy or more effort, but with total surrender to the God of peace, to the will of God. We talk about what it looks like to take the Sermon on the Mount seriously, why following the non-violent Jesus is the way, and how the daily practice of "not my will, but yours" carries not on...

People in this episode

Host: Joshua Johnson

Guest: Fr. John Dear

Topics covered

• peacemaking
• nonviolence
• Christianity
• surrender
• spirituality

Keywords

• peacemaking
• nonviolent Jesus
• surrender
• God of peace
• Sermon on the Mount

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Universal Love: Surrendering to the God of Peace, Sermon on the Mount

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