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10/19/2010 7:00 pm
10/19/2010 9:00 pm
JFK, Obama, and the Unspeakable Author James Douglass 7:00 p.m. Tuesday, OCTOBER 19, 2010 St. Francis of Assisi Church, 1031 Chenango St., Binghamton Free Will Offering
What does it mean to be transformed as president of the United States, at the edge of total nuclear war, into a peacemaker? John F. Kennedy’s turn toward peace, resulting in his assassination, provides a parable of the unspeakable for President Barack Obama and ourselves in the midst of our escalating war on terror. Can we discover hope for our enlightenment and resurrection as one human family through the dark truths of Dallas?
Jim Douglass has written four books on the theology of nonviolence, served as a theological advisor, on questions of nuclear war and conscientious objection to Catholic bishops at the Second Vatican Council in Rome, taught theology at Bellarmine College, the University of Hawaii, and in the Program for the Study and Practice of Nonviolence at the University of Notre Dame. He and his wife Shelley founded the Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action near Seattle, Washington, and Jim served a year and a half in jail for acts of civil disobedience at the Trident submarine base there. He has made numerous peacemaking journeys to the Middle East, and five visits to Iraq.
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