Category: Metta Center for Nonviolence
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Nonviolence Radio: All Eyes On Sudan

Nonviolence Radio released an episode this week highlighting Sudan. Listen to Mubarak Elamin and learn how to take action to end the war in Sudan.
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We Need a “Cease-Hatred”

No nation has ever become secure by savaging another, yet there are 55 wars going on in our world today. We need a deeper education where the principles of understanding, empathy, and structures for peace make possible a world where cycles of violence are broken.
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In Memory of David Hartsough (1940-2025)

After the March 22nd death of a beloved Quaker peace activist, sharing an episode of Nonviolence Radio where he explained his journey and commitment to nonviolence.
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Nonviolent Lynchburg, Peace Vigils 4/1 & 4/5

Cross-posting the following video lecture of John Dear, about making our lives fit into the life of Jesus. Includes exciting announcements about peace vigils this week in Lynchburg, Virginia.
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The Nonviolence of Jesus

Gandhi said, “The only people who don’t realize that Jesus was nonviolent are the Christians.” Listen to this recent podcast discussing the nonviolence of Jesus by the Metta Center for Nonviolence and Fr. John Dear.
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Remembering two 9/11s and choosing which path we will follow

Twenty three years ago, in the wake of the World Trade Center attack, Michael Nagler wrote the pamphlet, “Hope or Terror” to point out the strange coincidence that — almost a century earlier — on Sept. 11, 1906 Gandhi launched satyagraha, or active nonviolence, at the Empire Jewish Theater in Johannesburg, South Africa. These two Sept. 11…

