René Girard's Theories Still Explain the Violence All Around Us — Wayne Northey: The Gospel as Counter-Narrative to Empire

This is the CBC headline for airing the David Cayley five-part series on violence and its origins, the last three of which air this and next week (March 10, 11 and 17, 2016).

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René Girard and Violence This was (re)written just for my own joy in 1997, with subsequent rewrites. A version…
Cruciform anthropology: an introduction to the… This was written by Simon J. Taylor, and is so helpful in understanding René Girard.…
René Girard: The Anthropology of the Cross as… This is definitely worthwhile reading! An excerpt: It is sometimes said that the post-modern age…
A Great Irony of History: The Anthropological… I wrote this and presented it at the Colloquium on Violence and Religion (COV&R) June…
Victims, violence and Christianity by René Girard. It is an edited version of The Martin D’Arcy Lecture delivered in…
Restorative Justice and M2/W2 Ministry M2/W2 (Man-To-Man/Woman-To-Woman) is the Restorative Justice agency with which I was associated for forty years.…
Spirituality Evaluation of Restorative Justice Sixth International Conference on Restorative Justice, “Best Practices in Restorative Justice”, June 4, 2003 An…
Whither Now? Justice Without Violence Conference, June 5 - 7, 1997, Albany, New York An excerpt: Introduction…
Restorative Justice and Spiritual Origins November 19, 2004 I cannot recall where this was published/presented. A similar article also on…
Eat Me: The Cannibalistic Origins of the State David Gornoski Friday, August 05, 2016 This an outstanding piece, especially in the writer's powerful…
Book Review of: The Genealogy of Violence The Genealogy of Violence: Reflections on Creation, Freedom, and Evil, Charles K. Bellinger, Oxford: Oxford…
The Sports Crowd is Untruth This was written in response to the Vancouver Stanley Cup riot in 2011. An excerpt:…
René Girard, Conversion, and the Present Media Moment WN: This is immensely helpful in this historical moment. Lumen Christi Institute René Girard, Conversion,…
We Are Mansfield Park This was published in the Calgary Herald on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of…
Bloomfield Avenue A Jewish-Catholic Jersey Girl’s Spiritual Journey, Linda Mercadante, Cambridge, Massachussets: Cowley Publications, 2006; 211 pages…