Dear Friend,

I am writing to you with a short piece of personal reflection about our recent book, Bending the Arc: Striving For Peace and Justice n the Age of Endless War.

Fr. Dan Berrigan is still an unfailing source of inspiration and encouragement for me. When I find myself discouraged I often think of one of his quotes “the difference between doing something and doing nothing is everything”.

For many years, I wrote to Fr. Dan inviting him to speak at the Kateri Peace Conference. I knew it was unlikely he would come as he was quite elderly then, still I  enjoyed writing him a note and simply saying hello to someone I so esteemed.

Sadly Fr. Dan did not speak at the Kateri Peace Conference however his life and his work were strong influences in my life and contributed to the beginning the Kateri Peace Conference and subsequently to the publication of Bending the Arc: Striving for Peace and Justice in the Age of Endless War, this past August.