SSJ Sister Karen Klimczak Center for Nonviolence

Sister Karen Klimczak, SSJ

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Books and DVD:

Available at the SSJ Sister Karen Klimczak Center for Nonviolence:

Peaceprints: Sister Karen’s Paths to Nonviolence How to order
Released to commemorate the second anniversary of the death of Sister Karen, this book celebrates her life and helps us cherish the memory of this passionate champion of nonviolence. The biographies, stories, essays, interviews, poetry, art, and photographs that grace this book are voices of the community expressing how Buffalo’s Ambassador of Peace touched their lives. These vignettes are interspersed with entries from Sister Karen’s own journals and observations that express hope and forgiveness. The Emmy-nominated DVD, “Apostle of Peace,” produced by Daybreak TV Productions, is enclosed in each book (see description below). Cost: $18.00 + tax, 12 or more $15.00 each + tax.

“Apostle of Peace” DVD - 30 mins.
A half-hour special program celebrating the life and legacy of Sr. Karen Klimczak, SSJ. Included in the documentary are interviews with some of the people closest to the woman of "peaceprints", along with archival footage of Sr. Karen herself. Cost: $10.00 available at the Sister Karen Center

Other books on Nonviolence (links to Amazon):

Johann Christoph Arnold-Seventy Times Seven: Forgiveness and Peacemaking

Jim Forest: Making Friends of Enemies: Reflections on the Teachings of Jesus

Henry Nouwen: The Return of the Prodigal Son

John Lewis: Walking with the Wind

A Higher Standard of Leadership: Lessons from the Life of Gandhi

Martin Luther King, Jr: Why We Can't Wait

Martin Luther King, Jr. Strength to Love

Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years

Freddi Williams Evans: A Bus of Our Own

Hope and History: Why We Must Share the Story of the Movement

My Soul Is Rested : Movement Days in the Deep South Remembered

Martin Luther King, Jr.: Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story

Howard Zinn: SNCC - The New Abolitionists