You Will Be My Witnesses Grawemeyer Award Winner A comprehensive and challenging look

A comprehensive and challenging look at the significance of the Bible for blacks

Richard's teaching is grounded in the Franciscan alternative orthodoxy—practices of contemplation and lived kenosis (self-emptying)

professor of Christian theology at the Divinity School and member of the Committee on Social Thought of the University of Chicago

” — Thich Nhat Hanh

Its relevance begins with the Catholic community but it reaches beyond the church to other religious traditions to the role of states and international institutions and--most powerfully--to the lives of those seeking to build the structures of peace in conflicted communities throughout the world

You Will Be My Witnesses Grawemeyer Award Winner A comprehensive and challenging lookThe holy witnesses whose stories and images are presented here take a stand in the court of life to speak the truth of God. From famous and lesser known saints to prophets and peacemakers from our own time, these images open a doorway to the sacred. Their stories call us to witness God's compassionate love. John Dear is a priest, activist, lecturer, and author of thirty books including Thomas Merton Peacemaker; You Will Be My Witnesses (with art by