Tag: Gandhi
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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…

