Radical Prayers: On Peace, Love, and Nonviolence

This book offers fifty short prayers to encourage, challenge and inspire you on your nonviolent journey. Prayers cover subjects ranging from healing the environment, ending war, gun violence, poverty and racism, gratitude for the blessings around us and strength to continue on the path for peace, justice and nonviolence.

John Dear writes in the introduction, "Prayer and nonviolence go hand in hand. On the one hand, prayer is a daily journey toward ever-deepening intimacy with the God of peace in the Holy Spirit of peace. Through daily quiet meditation, the God of peace we encounter in our prayer disarms us, heals us and strengthens us to go forth and make peace, practice nonviolence and love others.... Nonviolent people turn to God in prayer throughout the day for protection, security, blessings and fecundity. That is the Christian way, the human ideal. That is the path of the peacemaker. ...daily meditation is politically dangerous and a threat to the culture of violence and war. As we combine prayer and nonviolence, in this culture of violence and war, we step into a new kind of dangerous mysticism where we lose our allegiance to the nation/state, and become full time citizens of God's reign..."

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Part 1: Thanks, Praise, and Adoration
Part 2: For Myself
Part 3: For All People
Part 4: For All Creatures
Part 5: For Creation
Part 6: For the Global Grassroots Movements for Peace and Justice
Part 7: For the World
Part 8: For Mature Discipleship to the Nonviolent Jesus
Part 9: For the Church
Part 10: For the Coming of God's Reign of Peace and Nonviolence
Part 11: For Life in the Holy Spirit of Peace
Part 12: For Humanity's Conversion to Total Nonviolence