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On the Eve of the Second Vatican Council (July 1 - October 10, 1962)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eConclusion: Preparing for What Kind of Council?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eName and Subject Indexes\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGiuseppe Alberigo\u003c\/strong\u003e (1926-2007) taught church history and served as director of the Institute for Religious Studies in Bologna, Italy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJoseph A. Komonchak\u003c\/strong\u003e holds the John C. and Gertrude P. Hubbard Chair in Religious Studies at The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC. 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Ira Chernus surveys the evolution of this powerful idea from the Colonial Era up to today, focusing on representative movements (Anabaptists, Quakers, Anarchists, Progressives) and key individuals (Thoreau, Reinhold Niebuhr, Dorothy Day, A.J. Muste, King, Barbara Deming), including non-Americans like Mohandas Gandhi and Thich Nhat Hanh, who have helped form the idea of nonviolence in the United States. \u003cem\u003eAmerican Nonviolence\u003c\/em\u003e offers an essential guide for both students and activists.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIra Chernus\u003c\/strong\u003e is professor of religious studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder. 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His book is a rallying call for a fresh missionary engagement with global population shifts and a welcome contribution to studies in the field.\" -\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLamin Sanneh, Yale Divinity School\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eExamining global megatrends, an African scholar shows how immigrant groups are decisively shaping the future of Christianity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this landmark study, Jehu Hanciles examines how non-Western movements and initiatives, particularly global migration, have the potential to transform Western society and Christianity. With more than two-thirds of Christians residing in the global South, the massive migration movement from the southern heartlands of Christianity to the old centers where faith is experiencing dramatic erosion and marginalization has profound implications for the renewal of Christianity as a global faith.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJehu J. 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Personally, it has made a very big impact on me. After reading it in Dallas, I was moved for the first time to visit Dealey Plaza. I urge all Americans to read this book and come to their own conclusions about why he died and why--after fifty years--it still matters.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #2081ce;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #15497c;\"\u003e\"In these trying and depressing times, it's hard to hold onto a glimmer of hope that things can change for the better in our country. I'd like to say JFK and the Unspeakable acts as a beacon for what is possible . . . except perhaps it does act as a beacon of warning about where we are headed and at what speed.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Elizabeth George, author, A Great Deliverance\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #2081ce;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #15497c;\"\u003e \"With penetrating insight and unswerving integrity, Douglass proves the fundamental truths about JFK's assassination . . . by far the most important book yet written on the subject.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Gaeton Fonzi, former Staff Investigator, US House Select Committee on Assassinations\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #2081ce;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #15497c;\"\u003e\"A stunning mix of political thriller and meticulous scholarship.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMark Lewis Taylor, Princeton Theological Seminary\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #2081ce;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #15497c;\"\u003e\"An unfamiliar yet thoroughly convinc\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #2081ce;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #15497c;\"\u003eing account of a series of creditable decisions of John F. Kennedy--at odds with his initial Cold War stance--that earned him the secret distrust and hatred of hard-liners among the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the CIA\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #15497c;\"\u003e.\"\u003c\/span\u003e—\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDaniel Ellsberg, author, Secrets: A Memoir of the Vietnam War and the Pentagon Papers\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #2081ce;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #15497c;\"\u003e\"Douglass writes with moral force, clarity, and the careful attention to detail that will make JFK and the Unspeakable a sourcebook for many years to come, for it \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #15497c;\"\u003eprovides us with the stubborn facts needed to rebuild a constitutional democracy within the United States.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #15497c;\"\u003e\"\u003c\/span\u003e—\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMarcus Raskin, co-founder, Institute for Policy Studies\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #2081ce;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #15497c;\"\u003e\"Should be required reading for every American citizen.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRichard Falk, Milbank Professor of International Law Emeritus, Princeton University\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #2081ce;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #15497c;\"\u003e“Right now, I ask all of you—please, please, read JFK and the Unspeakable! I cried all night reading it, and didn’t sleep a wink. It is a book that could make us stand up and change the world, right now. Maybe we can save the world before it blows up. Really.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Yoko Ono\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0185\/6438\/2784\/files\/Douglass_JFK_and_the_Unspeakable_excerpt_with_fn.pdf?v=1753203908\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0185\/6438\/2784\/files\/Instagram_Post_-_The_Legacy_of_JFK_Leadership_and_Change_2.png?v=1753118789\" width=\"457\" height=\"457\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eIn this fascinating and disturbing work, James Douglass presents a compelling account of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and why unmasking and accepting this truth remains crucial for the future of our country and the world. The title comes from a phrase of Thomas Merton, naming of the attitudes, forces and interests that generate and support international tension and conflict.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eDrawing on a vast field of investigations, including many sources available only recently, Doulass lays out a sequence of steps over the last three years of his life that transformed JFK from a traditional \"Cold Warrior\" to someone determined to pull the world back from the edge of nuclear apocalypse. Beginning with the fiasco of the Bay of Pigs invasion (which left the President wishing to \"splinter the CIA in a thousand pieces\"), followed by the Cuban Missile Crisis and his secret back-channel dialogues with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, JFK pursued a series of actions--right up to the week of his death--that caused members of his own U.S. military-intelligence establishment to regard him as a virtual traitor who had to be eliminated.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eAs the 60th anniversary of Kennedy's assassination approaches, the story of why he was killed--his turn toward peace--is not ancient history, and bears crucial lessons for today in the light of a decade of war and continuing revelations of clandestine national security and military activities. Douglass shows convincingly how those who plotted the death of JFK were determined not simply to eliminate a single man but to kill a vision.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eDouglass's book has all the elements of a political thriller. But the stakes couldn't be higher. Only by understanding the truth behind the murder of JFK can we grasp his vision and assume the urgent struggle for peace today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJames W. Douglass\u003c\/strong\u003e is a longtime peace activist and writer. He and his wife Shelley are co-founders of the Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action in Poulsbo, Washington, and Marys House, a Catholic Worker house of hospitality in Birmingham, Alabama. His books include \u003cem\u003eThe Nonviolent Cross, The Nonviolent Coming of God,\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eResistance and Contemplation\u003c\/em\u003e, and most recently \u003cem\u003eGandhi and the Unspeakable.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"vendor-unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":23985552097344,"sku":"978-1-57075-755-6","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0185\/6438\/2784\/files\/thumbnail_Douglas-JFKCVR-2025.jpg?v=1758554930"},{"product_id":"hope-and-history","title":"Hope and History","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #3c80ca;\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e\"In a time when relations between blacks and whites seem at best a minuet in a minefield, Vincent Harding's book Hope and History passionately reminds us that our heritage of racial agony also provided this country's greatest gift to democracy: the post-World War II African-American freedom movement. Mr. Harding's collection of essays about the meaning of that movement -- a sweep encompassing, to his mind, the 1955-56 Montgomery bus boycott, the evolution of black studies and grass-roots black politics -- is a charge to the teachers of America to reconstruct its goals, methods and soul for the latest heirs of our racial malaise.\"---\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eDiane McWhorter, The New York Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #3c80ca;\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e\"Each of Harding's essays overflows with parental warmth and quiet optimism, while acknowledging that the struggle for freedom and democracy in the United States and the rest of the world is far from over. Harding is a big-hearted man with great faith in humanity. Hope and History is his own modest, thoughtful charge to his sisters and brothers of all races to carry on the movement.\"\u003cstrong\u003e--- \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eLincoln Alpern, Friends Journal\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #3c80ca;\"\u003e\"In a time when relations between blacks and whites seem at best a minuet in a minefield, Vincent Harding's book \"Hope and History\" passionately reminds us that our heritage of racial agony also provided this country's greatest gift to democracy: the post-World War II African-American freedom movement. Mr. Harding's collection of essays about the meaning of that movement -- a sweep encompassing, to his mind, the 1955-56 Montgomery bus boycott, the evolution of black studies and grass-roots black politics -- is a charge to the teachers of America to reconstruct its goals, methods and soul for the latest heirs of our racial malaise.\"---\u003cstrong\u003eDiane McWhorter, The New York Times\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003eHope and History\u003c\/em\u003e is an eloquent, informed, and impassioned call to remember and to share the story of \"the civil rights movement\" in America's twentieth century. Drawing upon his extensive experience as a participant-historian, Harding focuses on the profound significance of the freedom struggle for our lives as citizens today. 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