The prophets exhort us to defend the poor; but we lionize the rich. They assure us that chariots and missiles cannot save us; yet we seek refuge under their cold shadow. They urge us to forgo idolatry; but we compulsively fetishize the work of our hands. Above all, the prophetic Word warns us that the way to liberation in a world locked down by the spiral of violence, the way to redemption in a world of enslaving addictions, the way to genuine transformation in a world of deadened conscien...

A Voice and a Poet for All Times It is impossible not to be gripped by the spectacular details of Daniel Berrigan's life. He was Paul Simon's "radical priest" smiling in handcuffs. The Jesuit activist excommunicated by his peers and imprisoned by the state. The unapologetic advocate for society's disempowered. The defiant vandal of objects that fed bodies and materiel to the war machine. And the earnest, yet somehow serene, face emanating from televisions denouncing the inhumanity of that ...

"The trouble with our state," Daniel Berrigan writes in his great poem, "was not civil disobedience, which in any case was hesitant and rare. . . . The trouble with our state--our state of soul, our state of siege, was civil obedience." This poem, like the many others gathered here together by Daniel Berrigan's friend and editor, Rev. John Dear, continues his famous critique of the American war machine and summons readers to carry on his campaign of nonviolence for the abolition of war, vi...

A monumental event in American poetry, Get the Money! brings together the essential prose writings of iconic New York School poet Ted Berrigan.“Ted Berrigan was a leader of the New York School; his crazy energy embodied that movement and the city itself.”—John Ashbery, author of Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror“Get the Money!” was Ted Berrigan’s mantra for the paid writing gigs he took on in support of his career as a poet...

A classic of faith-based activism―updated for a new generation. Why was Daniel Berrigan wanted by the FBI? Why did Robert Coles harbor a fugitive? Listen in to the conversations between these two great teachers as they struggle with what it means to put your faith to the test. Discover how their story of challenging the status quo during a time of great political, religious, and social change is just as applicable to our lives today. Thirty years ago, at the height of U.S. involvement in t...

Daniel Berrigan (+2016+) is most notorious for dramatic anti-war actions at a Catonsville draft board and a Pennsylvania nuclear weapons plant in the '60s and '80s. Indeed, with friends, he was practically devising what's been called "liturgical direct action." Berrigan was also teacher, pastor, and friend to author Bill Wylie-Kellermann. Celebrant's Flame is a well-researched, but personal book, a debt of gratitude--in the end a tome of love to his mentor. Reflecting on aspects of Berriga...

What happens when you refuse to deny what you've seen? For over sixty years, retired IT programmer Bill Berrigan has carried secrets that defies everything his culture tells him should be possible. Not a conspiracy theory, not a fantasy but a lived reality so persistent, so detailed, so undeniable it demands to be witnessed if not believed.In 2025 Bill recounted UFO sightings with striking precision and detail. This is yet not another UFO book trying to convince you of something ex...

During the season of fall in 2010, in and around the city of St. Louis Missouri, Bill had about a dozen sightings of literal unidentified flying objects, conventionally unknown aerial phenomena. Knowing that the general public seeks to know more about UFOs as he does, Bill reported most of those events to the MUFON reporting web site within days of each occurrence.After two MUFON investigators contacted Bill and expressed a desire for further investigation, he wrote them back and i...

The dashing Lance Meyers loves his job investigating viral outbreaks for the CDC. Women find him irresistible and his life seems quite satisfying. All that changes dramatically when he is assigned to investigate a possible outbreak of West Nile virus near his childhood home in the Pacific Northwest. The normally confident Meyers is challenged by a confusing investigation full of intrigue and a government cover-up to conceal information from the public. Along the way, Meyers finds romance a...

Experience the powerful legacy of Philip Berrigan’s nonviolent resistance to war and empireFrom the battlefields of World War II to the front lines of peace activism, Philip Berrigan evolved from soldier to scholar, priest to political prisoner. Confronting the fundamental nature of America’s military-focused culture, Berrigan took an unyielding stance against societal evils—war, systemic racism, unchecked materialism, and the baleful presence of nuclear weapons. I...

I was an active-duty Army JAG for 20 years. When I retired in 2006, I was approachedto work as Principal Deputy Chief Defense Counsel for the Military Commissions DefenseOrganization (MCDO): the team defending people held at Guantánamo Bay in the Bushadministration's "War on Terror". In many senses, the military commissions, created in theaftermath of 9/11, were the antithesis of good national and international law, designed to allow theuse of eviden...

Dissent from the Homeland is a book about patriotism, justice, revenge, American history and symbology, art and terror, and pacifism. In this deliberately and urgently provocative collection, noted writers, philosophers, literary critics, and theologians speak out against the war on terrorism and the government of George W. Bush as a response to the events of September 11, 2001. Critiquing government policy, citizen apathy, and societal justifications following the attacks, these ...