Transform Now Plowshares

Carole Sargent, PhD,is an associate of the Sacred Heart and founding faculty director of Georgetown University's Office of Scholarly Publications. She helped RSCJ sisters establish Anne Montgomery House in Washington, DC, where Megan Rice, SHCJ, was a neighbor and friend. With Drew Christiansen, SJ, she coedited A World Free from Nuclear Weapons: The Vatican Conference on Disarmament (Georgetown University Press, 2020), and she has published previous books with Farrar, Straus & Giroux. She writes from the contemplative scholars' house she founded (www.publishingadvising.com/house).

• ContentsA Statement for the Y-12 Facility   ixEditorial Note   xiiPreface   xivAcknowledgments   xixChapter OneA Gifted Life   1Chapter TwoNew Life in Nevada   22Chapter Three Jonah House Led to Plowshares   40Chapter FourTo Know Megan Rice, Meet Anne Montgomery   59Chapter FiveTwo Veterans Turned Warriors for Peace   80Chapter SixInto the HEUMF   96 Chapter SevenBefore the Trial   107Chapter Eight“Following Orders” Is No Excuse   119Chapter NineDon’t Blame the Thermometer for the Fever   126Chapter Ten“The Greatest Honor You Could Give to Me”   151Chapter ElevenDoing Time for Peace   161Chapter TwelveYou Can Jail the Resisters but Not the Resistance   183Notes   193Index   215

"Rich in detail, context and compassion, Carole Sargent's book illuminates how religion and spirituality motivate resisters, and how resisters build a multi-generation resistance against militarism and injustice."Dan Zak, reporter for The Washington Post and author of Almighty: Courage, Resistance and Existential Peril in the Nuclear Age