#51 With John Dear: "Epiphanies come at night. They are political. The story of the Magi is our story!"

Dear friends,

Next week we will be publishing highlights of our 52 episodes here on the first year of The Nonviolent Jesus podcast. Next year we will continue to explore and expand our dedication to nonviolence with conversations with inspirational thought leaders and icons of peacemakers and nonviolent activists. Thank you to everyone who listens and subscribes and shares the nonviolent Jesus in your world.

This week I take a deep dive into Matthew 2, the famous story of the three Magi. I offer this Christmas reflection as four movements:

1) The journey to the nonviolent Jesus;

2) The epiphany of meeting the nonviolent Jesus;

3) What we do after we meet the nonviolent Jesus; and

4) The epilogue, and how the empire, the culture of violence and war, reacts to the coming of the nonviolent J ...