March 17, 2020: John Dear to Speak at Edmond Trinity Christian Church

Please join Edmond Trinity Christian Church (located at 1400 NW 178th St. Edmond, Oklahoma) on Tuesday, March 17, 2020, at 6:30 p.m. to hear John Dear, long-time peace activist speak on his new book, Praise Be Peace: Psalms of Peace col Nonviolence in a Time of War and Climate Change. It is a collection of meditations on the anti-war, pro-peace psalms, and the psalms that celebrate creation, as a way to ground ourselves in faith and trust in the God of peace during these times of war and climate change.

Dear has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize three times, including by Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Dear has been arrested 75 times in acts of civil disobedience against war and nuclear weapons. He has lived in El Salvador, Guatemala and Northern Ireland and traveled in war zones across the world, including Iraq, Palestine, Nicaragua, Afghanistan and Colombia.

Dear has written 37 books, including The Nonviolent Life and his autobiography, A Persistent Peace. He is a Catholic priest in the Diocese of Monterey, California and serves as Outreach Coordinator of Pace e Bene [Peace + All Good].

Dear’s talk will be free and open to the public. Registration is not required. For more information, contact Rev. Don Heath at (405) 823-8511 or [email protected].