Next Sunday Pastor Brooks will be joined for a dialogue sermon by Brian Willson, a Vietnam veteran whose wartime experiences transformed him into a nonviolent pacifist. He gained renown as a participant in a prominent 1986 veterans fast on the steps of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. The fast was in response to funding of the Contra wars in Central America. One year later, he was again thrust into the public eye when he was run over and nearly killed by a U.S. Navy Munitions train while engaging in a nonviolent blockade in protest of weapons shipments to El Salvador. Since the 1980s, he has continued efforts as an advocate for peace. Brian Willson’s autobiography Blood on the Tracks received acclaim from notables ranging from actor Ed Asner to intellectual Noam Chomsky.