Blog 29 Mar 2022 Ivan Illich: An Intellectual Journey Discussion Group with David Cayley David Cayley is introduced on this website here. This summer, he consented to meet with a group of us on… Editor No Comments
Blog 11 Feb 2021 The Incomparable David Cayley WN: Introduction Below is a clickable list of many of David Cayley’s Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s (CBC) about 50-minute-long podcasts. They… Editor No Comments
Blog 24 Jan 2015 David Cayley of CBC Ideas for over 30 years Presents… WN: Greetings all. About 25 years ago, I wrote to David Cayley in response to a CBC Ideas series broadcast… Editor No Comments
Blog 07 Jul 2024 Easter Song and Reflections on the Resurrection ***NOTE: Please check out the footnotes for additional, more detailed commentary. Also, there are poetry and songs in the final… Editor No Comments
Blog 06 May 2024 The Anabaptist Tradition, Peacemaking, John Howard Yoder and Mennonite Feminists’/Other Mennonite Leaders’ Call for a Dramatic Revision of a Common Contemporary Mennonite Narrative WN: In light of the sermon preached by our pastor, Ian Funk at Langley Mennonite Fellowship (LMF) May 5,… Editor No Comments
Blog 28 Apr 2024 God: Then & Now; Always & Eternal: The God Who May Be Langley Mennonite Fellowship (our home Church) began a series called, God: Then & Now; Always & Eternal. The classic image… Editor No Comments
Blog Attendees came from 18 different nations. 08 Apr 2024 Rwanda Dispatches May 18 to July 12, 2018 At 30 years on to this day, April 7, 2024, the Rwanda Genocide broke out, that saw more than 1… Editor No Comments
05 Jan 2024 Interactive, Partial Book Review of: The Joy of Being Wrong: Original Sin Through Easter Eyes Interactive, Partial Book Review of: The Joy of Being Wrong: Original Sin Through Easter Eyes, James Alison, New York: Crossroad… Editor No Comments
Blog 05 Jan 2024 Interactive, Partial Book Review of: The Joy of Being Wrong: Interactive, Partial Book Review of: The Joy of Being Wrong: Original Sin Through Easter Eyes, James Alison, New York: Crossroad… Editor No Comments
Blog 26 Dec 2023 This Is Why Jesus Wept Dec. 24, 2023 By Peter Wehner Mr. Wehner, a senior fellow at the Trinity Forum, is a contributing Opinion writer.… Editor No Comments
Blog 11 Jul 2023 Who Truly Threatens the Church? July 9, 2023 By David French Opinion Columnist image above: Robert Stokoe | Follow WN: There is great wisdom in… Editor No Comments
Blog 18 Mar 2023 Christian Pacifism and Its Cultured Naysayers ***NOTE 1: Many footnotes add detail and background to the text.*** ***NOTE 2: The PDF academic version is here.*** WN:… Editor No Comments
Blog 04 May 2022 Commentary on: Faith, Science, and Francis Collins By Dhruv Khullar April 7, 2022 photo above: Wikipedia--Francis Collins is the only Presidentially appointed N.I.H. (National Institutes of Health) director… Editor No Comments
30 Mar 2022 Is the digital age confirming Ivan Illich’s once radical ideas? WN: Here’s a friendly new review of Ivan Illich: An Intellectual Journey by Robert Inchausti. He is the author of… Editor No Comments
Blog 28 Mar 2022 Capitalism and Racism WN: We have been studying an excellent book in this discussion group: How to Have an Enemy: Righteous Anger and… Editor No Comments
23 Mar 2022 Apocalypse Now!: A Revaluation of the Thought of Ivan Illich Brother John, Taizé In his masterful and comprehensive study recently published by Penn State University Press, Ivan Illich: An Intellectual… Editor No Comments
Blog 15 Mar 2022 What Goes Around . . .: Big Oil and Gas Kept a Dirty Secret for Decades. Now They May Pay the Price. Chris McGreal Wed 30 Jun 2021 photo above: Loïc Manegarium Communities are now demanding the oil conglomerates pay damages and… Editor No Comments
Blog Anti-riot police give signal to be ready. Government power concept. Police in action. Smoke on a dark background with lights. Blue red flashing sirens. Dictatorship power. Selective focus 06 Mar 2022 Is Violence Master of Us All?: Fight, Flight or Just Peacemaking WN: The host was the affable lawyer Gerry Palmer, quite well-known in Abbotsford for his work with numerous non-profit organizations,… Editor No Comments
Blog 21 Feb 2022 Ominous: A Convoy Revved by Foreign Actors Spreading Lies Andrew Nikiforuk Today | TheTyee.ca Tyee contributing editor Andrew Nikiforuk is an award-winning journalist whose books and articles focus on epidemics, the… Editor No Comments
Blog 29 Jan 2022 Marshall McLuhan, the Catholic thinker who predicted the internet, spent his last days praying with a Jesuit Nick Ripatrazone January 28, 2022 photo above: Marshall McLuhan at New York University's Loeb Center, June 14, 1966 (AP Photo/John… Editor No Comments
Blog 09 Nov 2021 Jordan Peterson: Sic et Non WN: Ron has been a longstanding friend--over many decades. I've been privileged to work with him on writing projects; read… Editor No Comments
09 Nov 2021 Love on a human scale: The Gospel according to Ivan Illich – Review by Marcus Peter Rempel Every now and then a book comes into my life that puts me in a happy dilemma: I want to… Editor No Comments
Blog 30 Oct 2021 Interaction With “Neuroscience’s Existential Crisis” By Grigori Guitchounts October 27, 2021 image above: A rendering of dendrites (red)—a neuron’s branching processes—and protruding spines that receive synaptic… Editor No Comments
Blog 11 Oct 2021 A Handful of Reasons to Join a Church [despite the exodus] – Sharad Yadav posted in Clarion Journal for Religion, Peace & Justice by Sharad Yadav WN: I like what I read below! One… Editor No Comments
Blog 01 Oct 2021 They Went to Bible College to Deepen Their Faith. Becca Andrews September 30, 2021 photo above: yelp.com WN: The article highlighted below begins with Megan Wohlers telling her story… Editor No Comments
Blog 25 Sep 2021 Pastor Gives Christians Who Claim ‘Religious Exemption’ From Masks And Vaccines An Epic Bible Lesson Mike Walsh Sep. 23, 2021 photo above: Keith Marshall/Facebook WN: The Pastor below said he had to make private his… Editor No Comments
Blog 28 Jul 2021 Concerning Life by David Cayley June 12, 2021 photo above and to the right (clickable): Cover of David Cayley’s new (massive) book… Editor No Comments
Blog 13 Jul 2021 This entire country is haunted By Alicia Elliott July 12, 2021 photo above: The Mohawk Institute Residential School, referred to by former students as ‘the… Editor No Comments
Blog 12 Jul 2021 “The Apocalypse Has Begun”: by David Cayley January 2, 2016 WN: This is a highly instructive essay. There is much on my website about… Editor No Comments
Blog 08 Jul 2021 Haiti’s fate is intertwined with the U.S. By Ishaan Tharoor with Claire Parker Email photo above: A man speaks on the phone next to a mural in… Editor No Comments
Blog 26 Mar 2021 Restorative Justice: Peacemaking Not Warmaking; Transformative Justice: Penal Abolitionism Not Prison Reform by Wayne Northey for The Kenarchy Journal, Volume 2. image above: cccu.org PLEASE NOTE: Below are excerpts of my paper… Editor No Comments
Blog 01 Mar 2021 Houses of hate: Dangerous, racist and falling apart. By nearly every metric, the nation's penal system is not just failing, it's making things… Editor No Comments
Blog 19 Feb 2021 The Prognosis October 2020 | Pandemic By David Cayley WN: There are recent posts and others here, that inform you about David… Editor No Comments
Blog 18 Feb 2021 Pandemic Revelations December 4, 2020 WN: I recently posted an article about David Cayley. There have been a few others. So I… Editor No Comments
Blog 16 May 2017 Select Bibliography of Key Restorative Justice Works Select Bibliography of Key Restorative Justice Works Compiled by Wayne Northey WN: Today, I updated a bibliography, especially weighted towards… Editor No Comments
Blog 06 Mar 2016 René Girard’s Theories Still Explain the Violence All Around Us WN: This is the CBC headline for airing the David Cayley five-part series on violence and its origins, the last… Editor No Comments
09 Jun 2015 Lament For a Nation: Then and Now Lament For a Nation: Then and Now, Ron Dart, New York: American Anglican Press, 2015; 38 pp. This is a great… Editor No Comments
Blog 12 Mar 2015 Politics and Religion in the Thought of Ivan Illich WN: This paper is on David Cayley's website here. You may read about David Cayley here. David has broadcast and… Editor No Comments
Blog 02 Mar 2015 The Criminal Justice System and “Criminal” Justice image above: hub.wsu.edu WN: This is a true story in which in 2000 we intervened on behalf of a friend,… Editor No Comments
24 Jan 2015 The Myth of Religious Violence and Migrations of the Holy The Myth of Religious Violence and Migrations of the Holy My thanks to Oxford University Press for a review copy… Editor
13 May 2014 Holding Forth . . . . . . or fifth . . . or sixth . . . SEARCH and ARCHIVES options are at the… Editor No Comments
14 Mar 2014 Book Reviews List SEARCH and ARCHIVES options are at the bottom of all website pages. A Farewell To Mars: An Evangelical Pastor's Journey… Editor No Comments
Blog 25 Feb 2014 René Girard and Violence WN: The paper below was (re)written just for my own joy in 1997, with subsequent rewrites. A version was prepared… Editor No Comments
30 Jan 2014 Restorative Justice SEARCH and ARCHIVES options are at the bottom of all website pages NOTE: Some of what follows is excerpted from… MasterEditor No Comments
Blog 15 Mar 2022 Reflection on: John Mearsheimer on why the West is principally responsible for the Ukrainian crisis Mar 11th 2022 by John J. Mearsheimer image above: Dan Williams WN: I recently sent out to several people an… Editor No Comments
Blog 12 Jul 2021 An American Kingdom By Stephanie McCrummen July 11, 2021 photo above: Mercy Culture Church in Fort Worth. (Dylan Hollingsworth for The Washington Post)… Editor No Comments
