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WN: This is immensely helpful in this historical moment. Lumen Christi Institute René Girard, Conversion, and the Present Media Moment…

WN: This is the CBC headline for airing the David Cayley five-part series on violence and its origins, the last…

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

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

WN: The paper below was (re)written just for my own joy in 1997, with subsequent rewrites. A version was prepared…

illustration above: The rescue by (Anabaptist) Dirk Willems. Engraving by Jan Luiken in Martyrs Mirror, v. 2, p. 387 of…

At 30 years on to this day, April 7, 2024, the Rwanda Genocide broke out, that saw more than 1…

***NOTE: Please check out the footnotes for additional, more detailed commentary. Also, there are poetry and songs in the final…

July 12, 2006 Dear Editor: Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Peter MacKay predictably was the pot that called the kettle…

This study still has pertinence today. There are two versions, which titles below explain. The second was presented on the…

WN: Some of the papers on Restorative Justice are understandably repetitive, though I culling the obviously such. image above: sikhnet.com…

WN: The host was the affable lawyer Gerry Palmer, quite well-known in Abbotsford for his work with numerous non-profit organizations,…

 John 12:20 - 33; John 11:49-52: 49But one of them, named Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to…

By Alicia Elliott July 12, 2021 photo above: The Mohawk Institute Residential School, referred to by former students as ‘the…

by David Cayley January 2, 2016 WN: This is a highly instructive essay. There is much on my website about…

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By Marie-Danielle Smith July 8, 2021 illustration above: by Anna Minzhulina WN: Military. Police. Prisons.((See here also.)) All are rife…

By The New York Times June 30, 2021 WN: While video images can be selectively strung together, they are real…

Opinion by Ken Dryden May 27, 2021 photo above: Toronto center John Tavares is taken from the ice on a…

by Wayne Northey for The Kenarchy Journal, Volume 2. image above: cccu.org PLEASE NOTE: Below are excerpts of my paper…

Dangerous, racist and falling apart. By nearly every metric, the nation's penal system is not just failing, it's making things…

WN: Introduction Below is a clickable list of many of David Cayley’s Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s (CBC) about 50-minute-long podcasts. They…

WN: Please see this new and powerful video--free until November 3! It tells America's story of the past half century…

RJWorld eConference, August 22 – September 6, 2020: Robbie Robidoux & Wayne Northey RJ World 2020 was a 17-day (extended…

Published on Thursday, August 06, 2020 by Common Dreams by Rev. John Dear photo above: "Our message over the years…

Dear Mr. Biden. If I might be so bold, I wonder about connecting some dots at this incredible kairos moment…

WN: Please see in light of the title this outstanding article by Canadian Wade Davis: The Unraveling of America. 1.…

Christchurch, the White Victim Complex and Savage Capitalism March 15, 2019 by Ben Debney drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair WN:…

On the Record: Jody Wilson-Raybould’s Devastating Testimony on the SNC-Lavalin Scandal Trudeau tried to pressure justice minister to cut deal…

February 06, 2017 by Vern Redekop WN: Anything my friend and scholar Vern Redekop writes -- and he is prolific!…

WN: Kevin Miller produced the movie Hellbound? five years ago to look at changing views on the doctrine of hell.…

book cover above: Stricken By God? is an anthology of papers by authors from all the major Christian traditions, arguing…

WN: A massive body of Restorative Justice literature has emerged. A superb early study is Restoring Justice (Strong and Van…

WN: Below is the first footnote of an essay for a possible chapter in an upcoming book slated for fall…

February 8, 2017 What the author is describing is scapegoating, ubiquitous in human cultures and history. René Girard, recently deceased,…

By Edward Curtin and Greg Poulgrain Global Research, July 22, 2016 In the "City of God," St. Augustine tells the…

 WN: A friend reminded me, in response to that below, that none of us in the first world is…

David Gornoski Friday, August 05, 2016 This an outstanding piece, especially in the writer's powerful juxtaposition of Jesus' invitation to…

Friday, 08 July 2016 00:00 By Kathy Kelly, Consortium News | Op-Ed photo above: Demonstrators record a crowd of police…

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

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

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.…

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

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

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: Much of this material first appeared in The Spiritual Roots of Restorative Justice, “Christianity: The Rediscovery of Restorative Justice”,…

November 19, 2004 WN: I cannot recall where this was published/presented. A similar article also on this website ("Restorative Justice…

By C.F.D. Moule WN: The following is from the "Preface" of the MCC (Mennonite Central Committee "Occasional Paper" Publication, 1990)…

Sixth International Conference on Restorative Justice, “Best Practices in Restorative Justice”, June 4, 2003 An excerpt: A few years ago,…

ICOPA IX Presentation 2000 Noted Canadian Quaker activist and author Dr. Ruth Morris was the main organizer of the above…

WN: Contemporary Western Restorative Justice theory and practice were not first developed by Americans, though they have greatly contributed to…

December 28, 2017 by Thomas P. Doyle photo: Boston Cardinal Bernard Law bows his head as a victim of clergy…

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