Table of Contents
Sources 11
Permissions 13
Daniel Berrigan's Life and Work: A Brief Overview 15
Introduction: Daniel Berrigan-Poet, Prophet, and Peacemaker 21
1 Credentials 39
Credentials 39
Each Day Writes 39
Insight 40
These Many Beautiful Years 40
Less Than 51
2 Peacemaking Is Hard 53
Peacemaking Is Hard 53
Miracles 54
From Sharpeville to Selma 54
You Finish It; I Can't 60
The Alternative of Nonviolence 60
The Face of Christ 65
Death Does Not Get the Last Word 65
A New Exodus Underway 73
Notes from the D.C. Jail 80
The Church after the Baltimore Four 86
Night Flight to Hanoi 96
Children in the Shelter 101
My Name 102
Our Apologies, Good Friends 103
3 The Burning of Paper Instead of Children 108
The Price of Peace 108
The Trouble with Our State 114
The Pentecostal Fire of Catonsville 115
On Trial with the Catonsville Nine 124
The Verdict 135
Prophecy 136
I Was a Fugitive from the FBI 138
The Dark Night of Resistance 145
They Call Us Dead Men 148
Certain Occult Utterances from the Underground and Its Guardian Sphinx 149
We Are Forbidden to Serve in Their Wars 150
Letter to the Weathermen 154
I Will Sign My Name 157
We Have Chosen to Be Powerless Criminals in a Time of Criminal Power 158
4 Lights on in the House of the Dead 162
September 27, 1971 162
Diary from Prison 163
Poverty 175
Tulips in the Prison Yard 175
Statement upon Release from Danbury Prison, February 24, 1972 176
5 They Shall Beat Their Swords Into Plowshares 178
Swords into Plowshares 178
We Could Not Do This 187
When Hammers Come Down 193
6 The Question of Peacemaking 194
The Soul of Peacemaking 194
Taking Stock 197
The GreatSign 198
Block Island 205
Pilgrimage to Romero's El Salvador 206
Witness of the Martyrs 209
Blessed Franz Jägerstätter 215
Some 221
Walking with Thich Nhat Hanh 222
7 The Word Made Fresh 227
Genesis, the Dawn of All Things 227
Kings and the Pathology of Power 230
Job's Summons to Live Humanly 236
Who Are We, That You Take Note of Us? / Psalm 8 241
They Call You Blind Man: Call Their Bluff / Psalm 10 242
Show Me Your Face, O God / Psalm 61 243
I Love Your Promise / Psalm 119 243
May I to My Lord Hasten / Psalm 131 244
Hand in Hand, Heart in Heart / Psalm 133 244
Jeremiah and the Promise 245
Ezekiel and the Landscape of Dry Bones 249
Daniel and the Credential of Nonviolent Steadfastness 253
Jonah and the Whale's Tale 260
The Imagination of Jesus 264
Love Your Enemies, the Just Command 271
The Time to Obey Is Now 274
Good Friday 274
The First Nonviolent Revolution 275
An Ethic of Resurrection 276
8 Love, Love at the End 282
Consolation 282
Vision 282
Zen Poem 283