In a time of increasing polarization and violent rhetoric in our national politics, what are the practical and theological resources within Christianity to resist violence at both a personal and political level? What is a nonviolent worldview in the Christian tradition? How is it distinct from other Christianities and other streams of nonviolence? What are the personal and political practices of such a worldview and what theology undergirds it? What historical examples of Christian nonviolent movements or communities are particularly relevant for today?

Marie Dennis is director of Pax Christi International’s Catholic Institute for Nonviolence, a founder of the Catholic Nonviolence Initiative and a Pax Christi USA Teacher of Peace. She was co-president of Pax Christi International from 2007 to 2019 and worked for the Maryknoll Missioners from 1989 to 2012, including 15 years as director of the Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns. Marie holds a master’s degree in moral theology from Washington Theological Union and honorary doctorates from Trinity Washington University and Alvernia University.  She is a lay woman, a Secular Franciscan and author, co-author or editor of nine books.

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