Discover a new history together
Washington, DC has a remarkable history of Catholic peace activists working together with peacemakers of other faiths to define our city in a unique way. Today, however, it is at risk of fading away as activists age and the movement encounters the global war machine. One way we can revive it is by understanding it better. If you join this reading group you won't have any extra work at all, because we'll read everything together (yay, nothing to get behind on!). Through poetry, short nonfiction, videos, and personal testimony from some of the activists themselves, you'll step back in time and learn about how Georgetown University intersected with this important movement. If you don't know the names Anne Montgomery, RSCJ, Horace McKenna, SJ, Ardeth Platte OP, Richard McSorley SJ, Megan Rice SHCJ, Drew Christiansen SJ, Carol Gilbert OP, Art Laffin, Ed Guinan, and others, you soon will. Plus you'll support a new book and help it find its global audience.
Learn about our peace activist forebears
​Anne Montgomery RSCJ bravely resisted nuclear weapons and war, but she didn't act alone. She was part of an extended community of nonviolent peacemakers (Catholic sisters and priests, Jewish, Muslim, and Hindu colleagues, Protestants, Nones) working together to create the world we want to live in. Art Laffin and Carole Sargent tell her story by publishing this book, and we also remember through other books such as A World Free from Nuclear Weapons: The Vatican Conference on Disarmament and Forbidden: Receiving Pope Francis's Condemnation of Nuclear Weapons (Georgetown University Press 2020, 2023); Transform Now Plowshares: Megan Rice, Gregory Boertje-Obed, and Michael Walli (Liturgical Press 2022); and many more.
Interested?
Send email or text Dr. Carole Sargent and find out more. No obligation, ever.
202-558-6370 (text only, please)