March 2015

WN: Another now-and-then article. An excerpt: In Errol Morris’ 2003 film, The Fog of War, former U.S. Defense Secretary Robert S.…

photo above: Billy Graham visited troops in Vietnam around Christmastime 1966 and returned in 1968. His son Franklin Graham, CEO…

By DANIEL MENDELSOHN image above: Ancient Olympia - Ruin in Greece - Thousand Wonders An excerpt: So too, all too obviously,…

WN: Another now-and-then article. An excerpt: We Westerners live in a civilization of vaunted global human rights and universal equality.…

image above: Walter Wink preaching at the Fellowship of Reconciliation WN: Another now-and-then article. An excerpt: The “face of fascism” turns…

By: William Hughes originally published in The People's Voice WN: Neither are most of us... An excerpt: Rev. Graham has…

CBS News An excerpt: In the run-up to the war in Iraq, one moment seemed to be a turning point:…

By Wayne Northey July 9, 2005 Dear Editor: Prime Minister Tony Blair hypocritically called the London bombings “barbaric attacks.” On…

image above: Benito Mussolini (left) and Adolf Hitler (right), the leaders of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, respectively, were both fascists. WN: Sobering. Canada anyone? See…

An excerpt: The week before Christmas south of the border has been designated “Thank a Soldier Week.” It may be…

By Wayne Northey Stephen Harper is a scary man. He is at best sycophant, at worst dupe, of the confidence…

image above: Enormous 360-degree panoramic picture of Dresden after Allied bombing| pinterest.com WN: Sixty years after the Allies' bombing of Dresden enveloped…

By Jason Burke The Observer U.K. An excerpt: The United States government, in conjunction with key allies, is running an…

WN: This is illustrative of all war. An excerpt: Above all, it is the premeditated attack on life, the human…

"Pardon Me?!" A one-time friend, Lloyd Billingsley, years ago confidently told me that “the left” by definition is ideological, “the…

By JOHN C. DANFORTH image above: bayardfaithresources.com--article valid, but the above image is how we "serve?" (whom)! An excerpt: By…

A rabbi asked his students, “When is it at dawn that one can tell the light from the darkness?” One…

By Edgar L. Jones image above: Love is the only way. There has been enough pain, enough war ... picturequotes.com WN:…

By Scott Galindez image above: Revealed: Senate report contains new details on CIA black sites WN: There is no Empire known…

WN: Canada's Prime Minister Harper has consistently chosen to "enemize" the other in response to Canada's domestic (criminals) and international…

by Olga Bonfiglio image above: What is the just war theory? | GotQuestions.org WN: In light of what has happened since…

It was while descending from a hike up Elk Mountain in the eastern Fraser Valley of British Columbia that someone…

These are excerpts from an interview with Eugene Jarecki, director of the documentary: "Why We Fight". For consideration: "Pax Americana:…

WN: I think this is a classic - by Andrew Greeley. An excerpt: He is not another Hitler. Yet there…

This, issued by President Roosevelt on the eve of World War II, speaks for itself. No. 325 Appeal of President…

by Charles C. McCarthy WN: See also on this site: Blessing The Bombs. An excerpt: Zabelka: The destruction of civilians…

image above: The young Fanny and the "well-meant condescensions of Sir Thomas Bertram" on her arrival at Mansfield Park. A…

by Wayne Masden image above: New Poll: George W. Bush Now Ranked 3rd Best President, Was 40th Last ...  bullshit.ist An…

by Marjorie Cohn WN: Bush's presidency established torture as legal practice, though it has been used by the C.I.A. and…

WN: This never did happen - but was a good idea... An excerpt: It is time for all people of…

This again a now-and-then piece. An excerpt: I told him of an organization in America that marched annually in a…

WN: This speech was given by George Zabelka, former U.S. chaplain who blessed the dropping of the two atomic bombs…

WN: This is in my view an excellent piece by Christopher Manion - from 2003. An excerpt: Mr. Thomas, normally…

This was written by Bill C. Davis. WN: Billy Graham has been the most known representative Evangelical for the last…

photo above: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1964 WN: The sermon, preached one year to the day before his…

WN: This was a "what if" piece that when first published online several took to be in fact true... image…

WN: Democide: "the murder of any person or people by a government, including genocide, politicide, and mass murder." While this…

WN: Another now-and-then article. An excerpt: In Western civilization, logic and ethics are usually mutually exclusive, while ideology and ethics…

Three Quotes and Two Dictionary Entries 1. “In [a true fairy-story] when the sudden 'turn' [or 'eucatastrophe'] comes we get…

image above: wm.org.uk WN: This was written by Howard Zinn. You may also find it here. The bombing of Hiroshima…

WN: Dr. Willard Swartley is an outstanding New Testament exegete, whom I now consider a friend, after our meeting in…

by Reverend Martin Niemöller In Germany, the Nazis first came for the communists, and I didn’t speak up because I…

Two questions that never received a response during election year 2004 . . . Mr. Warawa, the Conservative Party of…

WN: One small attempt at perspective... An excerpt: Yesterday's tragedy is horrific beyond words. Victims’ and their families’ losses are…

June 3, 2001, Matsqui Centennial Auditorium, 7:00 – 9:30 p.m. WN: I definitely remembered this forum! Randy White, one of…

WN: I had forgotten about this forum... Please click on: CP Dialogue introduction

WN: This was written 16 years ago, but is ever pertinent. An excerpt: Can one hope that some Canadian communities…

WN: Another of my now-and-then reflections. An excerpt: One of my good friends several years ago gave up on the…

WN: Just read the article (please)! You might be surprised . . . Please click on: Why I Support the…

An excerpt: During World War II, famed literary scholar and “mere Christian” C.S. Lewis delivered a lecture to a pacifist…

An excerpt: The other day Pat Robertson of the 700 Club called for the assassination of Hugo Chavez, President of…

Justice Without Violence Conference, June 5 - 7, 1997, Albany, New York An excerpt: Introduction Whither Now? The question presupposes…

by René Girard. WN: It is an edited version of The Martin D’Arcy Lecture delivered in Oxford in November 1997.…

This article of course states the all-too-obvious. It does not absolve ISIS or the Boko Haram (for instance): it simply…

An excerpt: It seems that we Christians always have had difficulty keeping together Christian points of tension. Whether the two…

WN: Some of the material in the essay below, now reworked, first appeared in The Spiritual Roots of Restorative Justice,…

 by Leo Tolstoy. The piece is perfectly self-explanatory. Please click on: Three Questions

The first was written by Lawrence Ferlinghetti; the second by Wendell Berry. I also juxtapose the first with David Bentley…

By Mark Twain WN: It is a quite powerful piece. Read it in its entirety. It may be found online…

WN: Another incidental writing. An excerpt: The War just fought against pirate Saddam Hussein and Iraq, with recently reported Iraqi…

WN: Another now-and-then piece. An excerpt: This was sent to me over the Internet: All Time Best Quote In a…

WN: This is still a worthwhile article by New Testament scholar Richard B. Hays almost 20 years later. The original…

WN: I collected such for a while... They are all below: The church is hopeless, but it is the only…

WN: This paper was jointly written by Pierre Allard and me. It arose from a book publication by the same…

War, Police and Prisons: Cross-Examining State-Sanctioned Violence Streams of Justice, September 28, 2009 WN: I was asked by the above-named…

WN: Presented at Arts & Peace Festival, Restorative Justice Workshop, March 1, 2001. Something similar was also presented at Regent…

Sixth International Conference on Restorative Justice, “Best Practices in Restorative Justice”, June 4, 2003 WN: I attended and presented at…

M2/W2 (Man-To-Man/Woman-To-Woman) is the Restorative Justice agency with which I was associated for forty years. An excerpt: A few years…

WN: This was written in 2001 for the Mennonite Brethren Herald. Please click on: RJ & M2W2 - MB Herald,…

WN: This was written for a now defunct magazine called "Friend". It is a brief statement about Restorative Justice. Please…

WN: This is definitely worthwhile reading! An excerpt: It is sometimes said that the post-modern age is the post-Holocaust age…

WN: There is a similar paper on this site. This was the original. Exactly a week before I was to…

An excerpt: Christian support for capital punishment, like Christian participation in war, has known a majority Christendom approbation since the…

WN: This was written in response to the Vancouver Stanley Cup riot in 2011. An excerpt: Søren Kierkegaard wrote “The…

WN: This was done in 1996 for a double issue of a U.S. journal, called The Justice Professional. I began…

WN: The rest of the title reads: (and so are their supporting constituents); OR: Tell Me it Isn’t So, and…

WN: There are several short papers (hundreds) that I wrote in this or that context in the past. This is…

WN: I have loved this piece since the first time I read it decades ago! Preparing it as an "Occasional…

photo above: freeimages.com An excerpt: When Anselm of Canterbury wrote Cur Deus Homo (Why God Became Man) in the 11th…

WN: This paper is on David Cayley's website here. You may read about David Cayley here. David has broadcast and…

image above: topfamousquotes.com WN:When I lived for nearly two years in the basement of noted Evangelical scholar Clark Pinnock's home,…

WN: Arguably the two greatest New Testament era historians in the world today are James D. G. Dunn and N.…

WN: Brian Stewart is a well-known Canadian journalist who a dozen or so years ago found his way to Christian…

image above: thenile.com.au WN: "Empire" by nature is gargantuan evil. There is none known to history that has not been…

WN: Father Emmanuel Charles McCarthy is a tireless Eastern Catholic voice for nonviolence. See his: Center for Christian Nonviolence website.…

image above: goodreads.com WN: Ruth Morris, Canadian Quaker who won numerous humanitarian awards, invited me to present this paper at…

WN: I love this story! Father Elias Chacour, a Palestinian Christian still very active today (and now Archbishop Chacour) in…

WN: This paper highlighted below answers in the negative the question posed in the title. It was written by Pamela…

This paper was done in May 2002 for a presentation at a Correctional Service of Canada institution. I do not…

WN: Tom Yoder Neufeld presented this to the Mennonite Central Committee Canada Restorative Justice Network in Winnipeg in 2003. It…

WN: I invite response. To be noted: two authors adduced below--Willard Swartley and Richard Hays--both support/ed a church ban on…

WN: This was prepared in 2005 for a church curriculum. An excerpt: Forgiveness is not only the ultimate “craft” for…

Excerpted from Parabola: The Magazine of Myth and Tradition, “Forgiveness”, Volume XII, Number 3, August 1987, pp. 50 - 59.…

image above: webpages.uidaho.edu WN: Evangelicals were in bed with former President George W. Bush like never before. They of course…

WN: This was written by Simon J. Taylor, and is so helpful in understanding René Girard. An excerpt: What difference…

WN: I wrote this and presented it at the Colloquium on Violence and Religion (COV&R) June 19, 2008. Paul Nuechterlein…

image above: hub.wsu.edu WN: This is a true story in which in 2000 we intervened on behalf of a friend,…

image above: christianlifemissions.org WN: I wrote this several years ago. A very brief touching on biblical prison abolitionism. An excerpt:…

image above: turnbacktogod.com WN: I might not have written this today... But there is irony in the piece, and some…