Rich in detail, context and compassion, Carole Sargent's book illuminates how religion and spirituality motivate resisters, and how resisters build a multi-generation resistance against militarism and injustice.
Dan Zak, reporter for The Washington Post and author of Almighty: Courage, Resistance and Existential Peril in the Nuclear Age
Carole Sargent tells this holy story of nuclear disarmament with compassion and insight, sharing the lives of the Transform Now Plowshares participants with deep gratitude and respect. Imagine a culture and judicial system (ours) that sends an 84 year-old nun to prison for three years for protesting nuclear weapons. Imagine a society that feels compelled to work building nuclear bombs in order to provide for their families. The call of a well-informed conscience to sacramental action, to disturb the status quo of a permanent war economy is the solution to our dilemma of the United States in the twenty-first century. May we regain our souls through the sharing of stories such as these of faith, hope, and love.
Martha Hennessy, a granddaughter of Dorothy Day and member of the Kings Bay Plowshares 7 and the New York Catholic Worker
With courage and singleness of purpose, the valiant peacemakers in this book who have committed their lives to rid the world of nuclear weapons never acted alone, but always in community-be it Catholic Worker, Plowshares, family-with hearts longing to bring about the beloved community. They are beacons of hope in our divided world.
Clare Pratt, RSCJ, former Superior General of the Religious of the Sacred Heart
Greg, Sr. Megan, and Michael have their Dante in this enthralling sojourn into the inferno of a main U.S. nuclear extermination oven . . . but unlike Dante's Hell, this abyss retaliates . . . be their Virgil by reading of the consequences.
(Rev) Steve Kelly, SJ, Disarm Now Plowshares and Kings Bay Plowshares 7
This story will challenge you to find ways to make your own religious or spiritual conviction more real in your life.
Spirituality&Practice
Sargent's book allows us to discover that the transformation of the world, based on conscientious free choice, is possible. There are already many individuals marching together, as one community, along the path of the transformation of arms into instruments of peace and social justice. This conversion, collective and symphonic, seeks to convert the world, in its turn, from an economic system founded on war, to one that invests in peace and our common home - fulfilling the prophecy.
L'Osservatore Romano
The book invites us to enter into the process that brings ordinary people like ourselves to undertake great personal risk for peace.
American Catholic Studies
