February 2017

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Favourites

• April 1, 2018 – Easter Song – Keith Green 
• October 13, 2016 – An Open Letter to Michelle Obama, October 13, 2016
• March 15, 2019 – Tribunal Declares Trump and Duterte Guilty of Crimes Against Humanity
• February 5, 2019 – The Cautious Case for Climate Optimism
• December 18, 2018 – Escape From the Trump Cult
• November 30, 2018 – Why I Oppose the Death Penalty: “The Talking Place: Discussing the Death Penalty” Forum on the Death Penalty, Fairbanks Alaska, March 22, 1997
• November 11, 2018 – The Cross: God’s Peace Work – Towards a Restorative Peacemaking Understanding of the Atonement
• September 25, 2018 – Justice That Transforms – new book series fall 2018
• September 15, 2018 – Obama’s Imperial Presidency
• August 6, 2018 – A Paradigm Shift in Christian Theology: What It Means to Say “God is Jesus”
• August 2, 2018 – Pope revises catechism to say death penalty is ‘inadmissible’
• June 25, 2018 – Rwanda Dispatches May 18 to July 12, 2018
• April 21, 2018 – How Martin Luther Paved the Way for Donald Trump
• March 12, 2018 – Billy Graham & The Cold War Before the Culture War – White evangelical voters, Donald Trump, and the evolution of the religious right
• March 8, 2018 – Chuck Feeney: the billionaire who gave it all away
• February 8, 2018 – Kipling, the ‘White Man’s Burden,’ and U.S. Imperialism
• February 7, 2018 – The Doctrine of Discovery, Manifest Destiny, and American Exceptionalism
• December 28, 2017 – “Fox Evangelicals” Embrace Trump’s White Nationalism
• December 20, 2017 – Justin Trudeau, Israel and the Palestinians
• December 18, 2017 – Erasmus: Wild Bird
• December 14, 2017 – “Prison, Sexual Assault, and Editing John Howard Yoder: One Man’s Story” by Andy Alexis-Baker
• November 16, 2017 – Hellrazed? — edited by Kevin Miller
• November 3, 2017 – Why I’m no longer talking to white people about race
• November 3, 2017 – White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo
• October 25, 2017 – The Secret Path – Gord Downie’s Secret Path In Concert
• October 10, 2017 – A Sesquincentennial Message from Jean Vanier
• September 10, 2017 – The Pentagon’s New Wonder Weapons for World Dominion
• August 26, 2017 – Exploring the Shadows of America’s Security State
• August 22, 2017 – Why Are There No Eclipse Deniers?
• August 21, 2017 – The Fundamentalists Holding Us Back from a Climate Change Solution
• August 16, 2017 – We Must Speak Out: Christian Leaders on the White Nationalist Rally
• August 12, 2017 – How Fossil Fuel Money Made Climate Change Denial the Word of God
• July 13, 2017 – Courts Must Hold Executive Branch Accountable for Drone Strikes
• July 9, 2017 – Doctrine of Discovery Task Force – Christian Reformed Church of North America
• July 5, 2017 – We Are the 99 Percent—Except for the Top 20 Percent of Us
• July 3, 2017 – Worried About Those Global Cyber Attacks? They Were Started by Washington
• June 30, 2017 – “Trump Feels a Kinship With Authoritarian Leaders”: Richard Falk on Turmoil in the Middle East
• June 22, 2017 – Institute for Religion, Peace and Justice (St. Stephen’s University)
• June 20, 2017 – Beyond #Canada150: A Statement from Primate Fred Hilz on National Aboriginal Day, June 21, 2017
• June 15, 2017 – White Supremacy Is Anti-Gospel. I’m Glad the Southern Baptist Convention Agrees
• June 15, 2017 – The Gospel Counter-Narrative
• June 3, 2017 – Obama: a Hollow Man Filled With Ruling Class Ideas
• June 1, 2017 – The US and Israel Share a History of Ethnic Cleansing
• June 1, 2017 – Ajamu Baraka, “Uncle Tom,” and the Pathology of White Liberal Racism
• May 16, 2017 – The Complete Censored ESCWA Report: “Israel Practices towards the Palestinian People and the Question of Apartheid”
• May 16, 2017 – It’s Time for our Prime Minister to Commemorate Nakba Day
• April 18, 2017 – Stop swooning over Justin Trudeau. The man is a disaster for the planet
• April 15, 2017 – Video: “Trump Won’t Be Cancelling World War 3 After All”. #StandDownMrTrump
• April 13, 2017 – Mandela Rules Highlight Conference April 25-29 in Costa Rica
• April 13, 2017 – Restorative Justice Then, Now and A Dream
• April 5, 2017 – Fifty Years On: MLK’s Concerns Still Plague Us, Including Militarism
• April 3, 2017 – Kairos Document: A moment of truth A word of faith, hope and love from the heart of Palestinian suffering
• March 25, 2017 – Amazing Disgrace
• March 7, 2017 – ** OUT NOW ** 
Dancing with Elephants: Mindfulness Training
• February 28, 2017 – Constantine in Canada – Ron Dart – with Vancouver letter re: Franklin Graham
• February 25, 2017 – Truthdiggers of the Week: Sanctuary Churches, Havens for Undocumented Immigrants
• February 19, 2017 – Why Do So Many Americans Fear Muslims? Decades of Denial About America’s Role in the World.
• February 17, 2017 – EKOS: Most Catholics view Israel negatively; Canadians overwhelmingly understand that criticism of Israeli gov’t policy is not necessarily anti-Semitic and Israel Lobby reports failure of anti-BDS efforts
• February 17, 2017 – If Being a Christian Means XYZ, then I am not a Christian.
• February 3, 2017 – Jeremy Scahill on Donald Trump and the Military-Industrial Complex
• February 2, 2017 – Trump’s American Empire
• January 31, 2017 – Pope Francis: You cannot reject refugees and call yourself a Christian
• January 17, 2017 – Diving into an Ocean of Gratitude for Living and Caring with Patch Adams
• December 27, 2016 – If You Think Jesus Was White, Here Are Five Reasons You’re Wrong
• December 2, 2016 – Israel-Palestine: Call for a new Israeli-Palestinian peace process: the moment for renewed commitment
• December 2, 2016 – Tomgram: Engelhardt, The Most Dangerous Country on Earth
• December 1, 2016 – The Challenge of Jubilee
• November 24, 2016 – Vengeance is Love – Klaas Goverts (trans. Floris and Judith Kersloot)
• November 23, 2016 – Pope Francis Denounces Growing ‘Demonization’ of Enemies and Outsiders
• November 18, 2016 – White, Conservative, Christian Friend—I Wish You Really Were Pro-Life
• November 13, 2016 – For Abolition: Prisons and Police Are More Than Brutality, They’re State Terror
• November 11, 2016 – Israel breaching Palestine’s right to development, UN human rights expert finds
• November 10, 2016 – Hugh Hewitt Questions Ben Carson If He Was Ruthless Enough to Kill Thousands of Innocent Kids in War
• November 6, 2016 – United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (the Nelson Mandela Rules)
• November 5, 2016 – Creating a National Security State “Democracy” Or How the American Political System Changed and No One Noticed
• November 5, 2016 – My Journey to the Center of the Alt-Right – The Huffington Post
• October 27, 2016 – The Religious Right: A Eulogy
• October 26, 2016 – Why would Christians vote for Trump?: Coren
• October 24, 2016 – The CIA’s Involvement in Indonesia and the Assassinations of JFK and Dag Hammarskjold
• October 5, 2016 – ‘Either We Destroy War or It Will Destroy Us’: Happy Birthday, Philip Berrigan
• September 30, 2016 – Marjorie Cohn: President Obama: ‘Patron’ of the Israeli Occupation
• September 19, 2016 – Rafeef Ziadah – We Teach Life, Sir and Shades of Anger
• September 15, 2016 – Empire’s Religion: Arundhati Roy Confronts the Tyranny of the Free Market
• September 15, 2016 – Walking from Wrongs to Rights: UN Declaration shows the way | Church for Vancouver
• September 13, 2016 – How America became a 1% society | The Guardian
• September 10, 2016 – “A Continuous War Mentality”: Richard Falk on Israel’s Human Rights Abuses
• September 6, 2016 – The NSA Abroad: The UK Base That Makes US Targeted Killing Possible
• September 6, 2016 – UN Human Rights Chief Urges Action Against Western ‘Demagogues’
• September 3, 2016 – LeBron And Friends Opened The ESPYs With A Speech You Need To Hear
• August 31, 2016 – “The Making of Donald Trump”: David Cay Johnston on Trump’s Ties to the Mob & Drug Traffickers | Democracy Now!
• August 30, 2016 – Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
• August 25, 2016 – Why Solidarity Between the Movement for Black Lives and Palestine Makes Sense
• August 23, 2016 – US War Crimes or “Normalized Deviance”
• August 23, 2016 – How Obama Helped Lay the Groundwork for Trump’s Thuggery
• August 22, 2016 – Best of TomDispatch: Andrew Bacevich, Pentagon, Inc. | TomDispatch
• August 19, 2016 – Diaspora Jews Are Joining Palestinians in Nonviolent Resistance to the Occupation
• August 15, 2016 – An ‘American Holocaust’
• August 10, 2016 – ‘They’re Coming for the Ones You Love’: My Weekend of Gun Training in the Desert
• August 9, 2016 – The Average Black Family Would Need 228 Years to Build the Wealth of a White Family Today
• August 3, 2016 – Marc Maron Speaks on the Rush of Shameless Hate Motivating Trump Voters
• July 30, 2016 – Trump’s Rape Rhetoric Appeals to Male Anxiety
• July 29, 2016 – Rev. William Barber Drops the Mic at the DNC
• July 26, 2016 – There’s No Business Like the Arms Business
• July 22, 2016 – Facing Down Trump’s Demagoguery: Lessons From Weimar Germany
• July 21, 2016 – The Appalling Violence of the World’s Three Superpowers
• July 17, 2016 – Lawless Drone Killings
• uly 17, 2016 – Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, How Extrajudicial Executions Became “War” Policy in Washington
• July 15, 2016 – Ex-Seattle Police Chief Condemns Systemic Police Racism Dating Back to Slave Patrols
• July 8, 2016 – Of Lethal Drones and Police Shootings
• July 7, 2016 – Modern US Wars Are Largely Fought to Ensure Our Wealth, Not Our Security
• June 20, 2016 – Cornel West: Black Lives Matter Is an Indictment of Neoliberal Power
• June 20, 2016 – Cornel West and the Fight to Save the Black Prophetic Tradition
• June 9, 2016 – The United States Is Ranked 103rd on Global Peace Index
• June 1, 2016 – After Empowering the 1% and Impoverishing Millions, the IMF Admits Neoliberalism Is a Failure
• May 18, 2016 – Interview With BDS Co-Founder Omar Barghouti: Banned by Israel From Traveling, Threatened With Worse
• May 17, 2016 – Trump Card: The Bully Who Exposes Our Bully Nation
• May 8, 2016 – The Untold History of US War Crimes
• May 4, 2016 – Jeremy Scahill and Glenn Greenwald Probe Secret US Drone Wars in New Book
• April 23, 2016 – Global pitbulls: the US military mission to support corporate colonialism
• April 7, 2016 – Vatican to host first-ever conference to reevaluate just war theory, justifications for violence
• March 6, 2016 – René Girard’s Theories Still Explain the Violence All Around Us
• August 31, 2015 – Just War, Just Deserts, Just Hell
• March 30, 2015 – The Rev. Billy Graham is No Phil Berrigan!
• March 29, 2015 – The 14 Characteristics of Fascism
• March 29, 2015 – Sifting Dresden’s ashes
• March 29, 2015 – “Pardon Me?!”
• March 29, 2015 – Onward, Moderate Christian Soldiers
• March 29, 2015 – Mercy, Mr. Harper, Not Sacrifice (Jesus)
• March 29, 2015 – It’s All Fun and War Games at the Air Show!
• March 29, 2015 – We Are Mansfield Park
• March 22, 2015 – Billy Graham – Echoes in the Shadows
• March 21, 2015 – Sixtieth Anniversary of Hiroshima and The World Safe
• March 21, 2015 – A Partial List of Democides in the Last Hundred Years
• March 20, 2015 – Scapegoating The Sex Offender
• March 19, 2015 – Why I Am (Try to Be) Consistently Pro-Life
• March 19, 2015 – Transformative Justice Vision and Spirituality
• March 18, 2015 – Is There A Place For Dreaming?
• March 17, 2015 – The Spiritual Roots of Restorative Justice – Christianity
• March 17, 2015 – Is Violence Master of Us All?: Fight, Flight or Just Peacemaking
• March 17, 2015 – War, Police and Prisons: Cross-Examining State-Sanctioned Violence
• March 14, 2015 – Spirituality of Restorative Justice
• March 14, 2015 – Restorative Justice and Spiritual Origins, November 19, 2004
• March 14, 2015 – Spirituality Evaluation of Restorative Justice
• March 14, 2015 – Restorative Justice and M2/W2 Ministry
• March 13, 2015 – Restorative Justice and Prison Ministry
• March 13, 2015 – Restorative Justice
• March 13, 2015 – René Girard: The Anthropology of the Cross as Alternative to Post-Modern Literary Criticism
• March 13, 2015 – “A Great Irony of History”: The Cross and Peace
• March 13, 2015 – Reflections on Capital Punishment
• March 13, 2015 – The Sports Crowd is Untruth
• March 13, 2015 – Rediscovering Spiritual Roots: The Judeo-Christian Tradition and Criminal Justice
• March 13, 2015 – Punishment and Retribution: An Attempt to Delimit Their Scope in New Testament Thought
• March 12, 2015 – Politics and Religion in the Thought of Ivan Illich
• March 12, 2015 – On the Front Lines
• March 12, 2015 – Jesus, Evangelicals, and American Empire
• March 6, 2015 – Spirituality of Penal Abolition
• March 6, 2015 – Making Friends of Enemies: Father Elias Chacour
• March 6, 2015 – Paul and Christian Social Responsibility
• March 6, 2015 – IS PAUL THE FATHER OF MISOGYNY AND ANTISEMITISM?
• March 5, 2015 – Transformative Justice Vision and Spirituality: M2/W2 Association and The Criminal Justice System
• March 5, 2015 – ‘In the Middle:’ Biblical Reflections on Restorative Justice
• March 4, 2015 – The Camel in the Anointment: Homosexuality and the Church
• March 4, 2015 – The Craft of Forgiveness
• March 4, 2015 – Living in Communion: AN INTERVIEW WITH FATHER THOMAS HOPKO
• March 4, 2015 – Emperor Bush, Pirate bin Laden, Calvin College, and the Gospel
• March 4, 2015 – Cruciform anthropology: an introduction to the thought of René Girard
• March 4, 2015 – A Great Irony of History: The Anthropological Significance of the Cross, and Peace
• March 2, 2015 – The Sex Offender as Scapegoat
• March 2, 2015 – The Criminal Justice System and “Criminal” Justice
• March 2, 2015 – The Gospel and Prisons
• February 28, 2015 – Capital Punishment
• April 29, 2014 – WAR AND HELL – and Exception-Clause Footnote Theology
• March 12, 2014 – Transformative Justice Vision and Spirituality
• March 10, 2014 – The Two Great Commandments and Prison Ministry
• March 10, 2014 – The Sex Offender as Scapegoat
• March 10, 2014 – Is There A Place For Dreaming?
• March 10, 2014 – Enemy Love As Core Gospel
• February 26, 2014 – “Not Enough!” and International Restorative Justice
• February 26, 2014 – Restorative Justice Stories – MCCC 50th Anniversary, December 14, 2013
• February 26, 2014 – Restorative Justice and Spiritual Origins
• February 26, 2014 – Restorative Reintegration
• February 25, 2014 – Restorative Justice Vision and Spirituality
• February 25, 2014 – René Girard and Violence
• February 25, 2014 – Punishment and Retribution
• February 25, 2014 – Call For a Church Apology Vis À Vis Crime and Punishment
• February 25, 2014 – Spirituality Evaluation of Restorative Justice
• February 25, 2014 – Restorative Justice and Prison Visitation
• February 24, 2014 – The Spirituality of Penal Abolition
• February 24, 2014 – Creating New Hearts: Moving From Retributive to Restorative Justice
• February 22, 2014 – A Brief Look At Restorative Justice
• February 22, 2014 – Towards A New Paradigm of Justice
• February 22, 2014 – Homo Homini Ubuntu

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