The format will be joyous and festive with opportunity for participants to share their memories and appreciations of Phil. Our sharing will be kicked off by:

• Brad Wolf, author of the forthcoming book A Ministry of Risk: Writings on Peace and Nonviolence by Philip Berrigan

• Frida Berrigan

• Jerry Berrigan

Bring a favorite beverage to toast this great and beloved man.

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Fr. William Hart McNichols is a world renowned iconographer, who served as an AIDS Hospice minister in NYC, and now assists with sacramental ministry in New Mexico. Bill will reflect on his relationship with Dan and Phil Berrigan, on his images of them and other holy men and women.

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“An ethic of the interim as I understand it, would allow us to fill the gap between today and tomorrow with the bodies of all who must die  before we accept the word of Christ. On the contrary, I think the Sermon on the Mount concerns us here and now, or concerns us never. In whatever modest and clumsy a way, we are called to honor the preference of Christ for suffering rather than inflicting suffering, for dying rather than killing. In that sense, all “interim ethics” have been cast aside. The time to obey is now.” -Daniel Berrigan SJ

The Time to Obey is Now: Nonviolence in a World of War

April 9, 2022, 12:00 Noon (EDT)

Frida Berrigan is a mother and community activist living in New London, CT with her husband and three kids. She writes on the human side of politics for TomDispatch, and long contributed The Little Insurrections blog to Waging Nonviolence. She is the author of It Runs in the Family: On Being Raised by Radicals and Growing Into Rebellious Motherhood, published by OR Books in 2015. The book recounts her upbringing at Jonah House, the Christian resistance community founded in the early 1970s by her parents Elizabeth McAlister and Philip Berrigan. More recently, she penned a chapter in The Sandbox Revolution: Raising Kids For a Just World published by Broadleaf in 2021. In New London, Frida grows vegetables, raises chickens, works with a Community Land Trust on affordable housing and pickets at nuclear submarine maker General Dynamics.

Yurii Sheliazhenko  is executive secretary of the Ukrainian Pacifist Movement and a board member of the European Bureau for Conscientious Objection. He obtained a Master of Mediation and Conflict Management degree in 2021 and a Master of Laws degree in 2016 at KROK University. In addition to his participation in the peace movement, he is a journalist, blogger, human rights defender, and legal scholar, an author of academic publications and a lecturer on legal theory and history.

Walking where one’s word leads: Daniel Berrigan and Discernment in Times of Crisis

February 3, 2022, 7:00 PM (ET)

“Freedom consequent on the accepted necessity of walking where one’s word leads…Bodies belong where words lead.” From Daniel Berrigan’s poem,  “September 27, 1971”

Discernment in the Life of Daniel Berrigan

Daniel Cosacchi is an assistant professor of religious studies at Marywood University in Scranton, Pa. He is the co-editor of The Berrigan Letters: Personal Correspondence between Daniel and Philip Berrigan (Orbis, 2016). Dan’s presentation will explore Berrigan’s experience of discernment in his life of resistance.

What is ours to do in these times of crisis and new possibilities? Ethos, Action, and Social Justice.

Edgar Rivera Colón, PhD is a Medical Anthropologist who teaches at Columbia University’s Narrative Medicine program. He is an expert on Latinx queer male sexual cultures. Dr. Rivera Colón trains public health professionals in working with Latinx LGBTQ communities in cultural and structural competency. 

Before the ZOOM session, please reflect on your own answers to these questions:

1. What about Daniel Berrigan’s life and work speaks to you about acting in the face of the multiple crises we face today?

2. How do we name this moment? What is my task to do in this moment? What is ours to do together?

"Look, a transfusion of hope in every human vein, youthful or aged. I name you, therefore, those who 'hope in Yahweh.' And I promise—youth, elders—you will be no more earthbound than eagles are."  -Daniel Berrigan

Older activists often bemoan the fact that younger activists aren’t interested in joining traditional resistance organizations. But vibrant activism flourishes among younger people. How do we bring a rich tradition in contact with new energy and different perspectives? This ZOOM gathering will host such a conversation. We’ll hear from and dialogue with two young activists Grace Aheron and Claire Hitchens about the inspiration they receive and the limitations they notice in the tradition of Catholic radicalism to which Dan Berrigan belong.

Thursday, December 2, 2021 at 7PM Eastern

Grace Aheron (she/her) is a multi-racial Asian American Southern queer femme. She was raised upper middle class in the foothills of the Appalachian mountains in Southwestern Virginia. She was politicized in her progressive Christian church that planted a commitment to liberation theology and justice deep in her heart as a wee one. She helped start the Showing Up for Racial Justice  chapter in Charlottesville in 2016 and made it her political home as they survived and thrived through the Unite the Right Rally in 2017. She is married to a remarkable queer and they live in Virginia on traditional Monacan territory.

Claire Hitchins (she/her) is called to tend sacred spaces where connection, healing, imagination and justice-making become possible. In 2014 she first named this vocation as a call to priesthood - but as a young Catholic woman, she couldn’t imagine what that could mean. Her winding discernment path led her to the fertile fringes of the institutional church, where she seeds transformation with fellow Catholic change-makers. She is blessed to design and direct Re/Generation, a mentoring and leadership program connecting young progressive Catholics with each other and with elders to support them in their work for justice in the Church. She is a resident of Casa Alma Catholic Worker in Charlottesville, Virginia, where she supports community projects in sustainable agriculture and radical hospitality. Claire weaves music into her ministry wherever possible, leading group singing at church services, retreats, protests and rallies. She is a second-year Master of Divinity candidate at Vanderbilt Divinity School where she is widening her imagination around how churches and faith leaders can resist oppressive systems and theologies, and better serve the healing, repair and liberation for which all of creation groans. Claire received her BA in Religious Studies from The University of Virginia in 2013 and served with Jesuit Volunteer Corps Northwest ’15-’16.