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What if the key to a more peaceful world is following the path of the nonviolent Jesus?Join Fr. John Dear—priest, author, activist, and Nobel Peace Prize nominee—for The Nonviolent Jesus, a weekly 30-minute podcast. Each episode reflects on the radical teachings of Jesus through the lens of active nonviolence, inspired by the traditions of Gandhi and Dr. King.Featuring compelling conversations with spiritual teachers, authors, and activists like Martin Sheen, Joan Baez, Martin L. King III, Sister Helen Prejean, Rev. Richard Rohr, Dolores Huerta, Shane Claiborne and many others, John dives ...

Fr. Dear makes a powerful argument for the support of vegetarianism through Christianity, showing that eating meat supports environmental degradation, poor health, global poverty, and animal abuse, and arguing that each of these is antithetical to Christian living.