Philip Berrigan 
A Ministry of Risk [EPUB ebook] 
Writings on Peace and Nonviolence

Foreword : Witness and Wisdom
Bill Wylie- Kellermann | xv
Preface
Frida Berrigan | xxi
Introduction
Brad Wolf | xxvii
Prologue : Worlds on Fire
Philip Berrigan | xxxix
Part I: A Catholic Trying to Be a Christian, 1957–67
Christ in Our Midst | 3
What’s It Going to Be with You? | 5
The Freedom Rides | 7
JFK and the Cuban Missile Crisis | 9
The Nature of Christian Witness | 11
Segregation and the Nuclear Arms Race | 13
Questioning the Christian “Credo” | 15
I Will Take My Stand, Come What May | 17
Peace Is the Duty of Our Time | 19
Faithful Enough to Suffer, Daring Enough to Serve | 23
The Priest and Society | 26
Liberation from the Pathology of War | 28
Pacifist or Peacemaker | 29
The Gospel Means Peacemaking | 31
Part II: Resisting the Vietnam War, 1967– 73
Diary from the Baltimore City Jail | 37
Christianity and Revolution Are Synonymous | 40
Trying to Serve Love | 43
Times for Confronting Injustice | 46
All of Us Are Prisoners | 48
We Claim a Higher Law | 54
The Christian Roots of Protest | 56
After the Trial, Hope | 58
Truth Creates Its Own Room | 60
Liberation from Fear | 64
Acts of Faith | 65
Our Responsibility to Each Other | 66
We Have Trouble with Surrender | 68
The Sinless One Continues to Haunt Me | 70
Following the Man of Calvary | 75
Resistance Is Essential | 77
Withstanding the Attacks | 80
Marriage with Liz | 82
Smear and Ridicule | 85
The USA vs. Philip Berrigan | 86
Revolution, Berrigan Style | 87
Obeying God’s Word Can Get You Killed | 88
We Constitute the Church in Chains | 89
Fasting in Prison | 95
Resistance, Liberation, and Fear | 97
Prayer, Risk, and Generosity | 99
The Strength and Faith of Liz | 101
Renewing Wedding Vows | 103
Truth and Peace Mean Resistance | 104
An Enemy of the State | 106
Our Acts Are Nonviolent 107
On Self- Pity While in Prison | 109
What We Do to the Vietnamese, We Do to Ourselves | 110
The Plastic Goliaths | 116
Acquittal | 118
To Create Hope Is to Wrestle with Death | 120
Dealing with the “Blahs” in Prison | 124
Thanksgiving 1972 | 126
Finally Free . . . for a While | 127
Part III: Community, Plowshares, and the Bomb, 1973–2002
Paying Dearly for Our Love | 131
Religion and Politics | 134
A Ministry of Risk and Liberation | 136
Disarm or Dig Graves | 140
Resisting Nuclear Suicide | 143
A Leaflet at Christmas: Christ or the Bomb | 145
A Time When No Leader Can Buy Us | 147
The Kenosis of Christ | 149
Fools on Christ’s Account | 151
Thoughts from Alexandria Jail | 153
Prophecy and Life | 155
Hostage to the Bomb | 159
Back to the Pentagon | 160
We Cannot Be Silent if We Want Peace | 162
Letter from Prison to Dorothy Day | 164
A Call to Faithfulness | 166
Naming the Beast | 168
Tribute to Liz | 169
Liz in Prison | 171
Beating Swords into Plowshares | 172
Liz Resists the Arms Race, Again | 177
Disarming the Nuclear Navy— and Ourselves | 183
Empire and the Super-rich | 186
Free Enough to Go to Jail | 189
Commemorating Martin Luther King Jr. | 192
Isaiah in North Carolina | 194
Hellholes, Courts, Jails: A Triple Source of Resistance | 197
Suffering Servanthood | 200
Working for the Long Haul | 203
My Roots Are in the Church | 205
“From Prison, Old Militant Struggles On” | 206
Reliance on Community | 207
Ash Wednesday Action | 209
Agenda for Renewal | 212
No Freedom without Love | 215
Loving Our Enemies | 217
We Aren’t Doing OK by Ourselves | 220
A Harvest of Death | 224
The Trial of Depleted Uranium | 227
God Becomes Light to Us | 229
The Healing Act of Forgiveness | 231
Doing Good and Resisting Evil | 233
Time for a National Strike | 236
Notes from Prison on 9/11 | 238
Final Journal Entries 2002 | 241
Phil’s Last Statement, Unfinished, November 2002 | 243
Afterword
John Dear | 245
Acknowledgments | 253
Contributors | 255
Photographs follow page 154

John Dear is a long- time peace activist, priest, and author of 40 books on peace and nonviolence. He is the director of Beatitudes Center.org and was a close friend of Philip Berrigan. He is the executor of the Daniel Berrigan Literary Trust and lives in California. For more information about John and his work, visit www.johndear.org.