Blog 27 May 2021 René Girard, Conversion, and the Present Media Moment WN: This is immensely helpful in this historical moment. Lumen Christi Institute René Girard, Conversion, and the Present Media Moment… 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
Blog 13 Mar 2015 René Girard: The Anthropology of the Cross as Alternative to Post-Modern Literary Criticism WN: This is definitely worthwhile reading! An excerpt: It is sometimes said that the post-modern age is the post-Holocaust age… Editor No Comments
Blog 04 Mar 2015 Cruciform anthropology: an introduction to the thought of René Girard WN: This was written by Simon J. Taylor, and is so helpful in understanding René Girard. An excerpt: What difference… 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
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 30 Jun 2024 Good Shepherd New York: Pride Month, The Gospel, Saint Paul and Inclusion WN: In the worship service today, the issue of homosexuality and the church is directly, lovingly, and beautifully addressed. Good… Editor No Comments
Blog 21 May 2024 Reconciliation–WN Contribution to: illustration above: The rescue by (Anabaptist) Dirk Willems. Engraving by Jan Luiken in Martyrs Mirror, v. 2, p. 387 of… Editor No Comments
Blog 04 May 2024 Palestine: The Ultimate Maximum Security Prison PLEASE NOTE: In response to the film and material below, I received this from a friend, Dr. Loren Wilkinson: I… 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 People enter the Music City Center for the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting, Tuesday, June 15, 2021, in Nashville. RNS photo by Kit Doyle 08 Nov 2023 Why Southern Baptists are Furious Over a Sex Abuse Case in Kentucky By Ruth Graham Ruth Graham writes about faith and values, and has written extensively about the Southern Baptist Convention. Nov.… Editor No Comments
Blog 10 Oct 2023 Theories on the Psychology of Violence WN: I met the author of the presentation below at a COV&R (Colloquium on Violence and Religion) Conference.I recall a… 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
26 Mar 2023 The Other Side of the Good News: Confronting the Contemporary Challenges to Jesus’ Teachings on Hell WN: I knew I would eventually review this book. But it took me seven years after its publication to do… Editor No Comments
Blog 29 Nov 2022 The Kingdom of God is so different from our reality. That’s why it can feel scandalous to us. Jim McDermott November 29, 2022 image above: Peaceable Kingdom (1833) -- Edward Hicks WN: My friend Gerry Ayotte forwarded notice… Editor No Comments
Blog 30 Jul 2022 Pope Francis says Catholic Church committed cultural ‘genocide’ of Canada’s Indigenous peoples Jul 30, 2022 by Christopher White Christopher White is the Vatican correspondent for NCR. His email address is [email protected]. Follow him… Editor No Comments
Blog 01 Jun 2022 Reflections on: How US gun culture stacks up with the world By Kara Fox, Krystina Shveda, Natalie Croker and Marco Chacon, CNN Thu May 26, 2022 WN: Add to this the overwhelming… Editor No Comments
Blog 09 May 2022 The Mumbai Bombs, July 2006 July 12, 2006 Dear Editor: Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Peter MacKay predictably was the pot that called the kettle… Editor No Comments
Blog 05 May 2022 The Impact of Christ on Female/Male Relationships This study still has pertinence today. There are two versions, which titles below explain. The second was presented on the… 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 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 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 07 Mar 2022 Restorative Justice and Spiritual Origins, November 19, 2004 WN: Some of the papers on Restorative Justice are understandably repetitive, though I culling the obviously such. image above: sikhnet.com… 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 16 Nov 2021 Paper and Story: “The Sex Offender as Scapegoat” John 12:20 - 33; John 11:49-52: 49But one of them, named Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to… 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 09 Sep 2021 States of Incarceration by Emily Widra and Tiana Herring Tweet this September 2021 WN: My strongest statement about the horrors of worldwide incarceration… Editor No Comments
Blog 05 Sep 2021 9/11 was a test: Essay by Carlos Lozada Illustration above: by Patrik Svensson Sept. 3, 2021 WN: Below are excerpts from an outstanding essay… Editor No Comments
02 Sep 2021 The Genealogy of Violence The Genealogy of Violence: Reflections on Creation, Freedom, and Evil, Charles K. Bellinger, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001, 157 pages.… 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 12 Jul 2021 Signs of a Need to Hate By Community last July 11, 2021 image above: Editor No Comments
Blog 08 Jul 2021 The war inside the Canadian Armed Forces By Marie-Danielle Smith July 8, 2021 illustration above: by Anna Minzhulina WN: Military. Police. Prisons.((See here also.)) All are rife… Editor No Comments
Blog 30 Jun 2021 Inside the Capitol Riot: An Exclusive Video Investigation By The New York Times June 30, 2021 WN: While video images can be selectively strung together, they are real… Editor No Comments
Blog 29 May 2021 Opinion: It’s ‘The Code’ of the NHL, and it has no cure for stupid Opinion by Ken Dryden May 27, 2021 photo above: Toronto center John Tavares is taken from the ice on a… 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 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 28 Oct 2020 The Man Card WN: Please see this new and powerful video--free until November 3! It tells America's story of the past half century… Editor No Comments
Blog 13 Aug 2020 RJWorld eConference, August 22 – 31, 2020: Robbie Robidoux & Wayne Northey RJWorld eConference, August 22 – September 6, 2020: Robbie Robidoux & Wayne Northey RJ World 2020 was a 17-day (extended… Editor No Comments
Blog 08 Aug 2020 Life Under the Bomb Means a Life of Resistance Published on Thursday, August 06, 2020 by Common Dreams by Rev. John Dear photo above: "Our message over the years… Editor No Comments
Blog 11 Jun 2020 An Open Letter To Joe Biden Dear Mr. Biden. If I might be so bold, I wonder about connecting some dots at this incredible kairos moment… Editor No Comments
Blog 31 May 2020 Cornel West Says ‘Neo-Fascist Gangster’ Trump and Neoliberal Democrats Expose America as ‘Failed Social Experiment’ WN: Please see in light of the title this outstanding article by Canadian Wade Davis: The Unraveling of America. 1.… Editor No Comments
Blog 17 Mar 2019 Christchurch, the White Victim Complex and Savage Capitalism Christchurch, the White Victim Complex and Savage Capitalism March 15, 2019 by Ben Debney drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair WN:… Editor No Comments
Blog 28 Feb 2019 On the Record: Jody Wilson-Raybould’s Devastating Testimony on the SNC-Lavalin Scandal On the Record: Jody Wilson-Raybould’s Devastating Testimony on the SNC-Lavalin Scandal Trudeau tried to pressure justice minister to cut deal… Editor No Comments
Blog 10 Sep 2018 Trump’s Pantheistic Temptation February 06, 2017 by Vern Redekop WN: Anything my friend and scholar Vern Redekop writes -- and he is prolific!… Editor No Comments
Blog 16 Nov 2017 Hellrazed? — edited by Kevin Miller WN: Kevin Miller produced the movie Hellbound? five years ago to look at changing views on the doctrine of hell.… Editor No Comments
Blog 24 Jul 2017 Salvation as At-One-Ment book cover above: Stricken By God? is an anthology of papers by authors from all the major Christian traditions, arguing… Editor No Comments
Blog 13 Apr 2017 Restorative Justice Then, Now and A Dream WN: A massive body of Restorative Justice literature has emerged. A superb early study is Restoring Justice (Strong and Van… Editor 2 Comments
Blog 09 Apr 2017 The Banality of War WN: Below is the first footnote of an essay for a possible chapter in an upcoming book slated for fall… Editor No Comments
Blog 08 Feb 2017 Trump Revives a Shameful Tradition: Targeting a Minority Group with Crime Reports February 8, 2017 What the author is describing is scapegoating, ubiquitous in human cultures and history. René Girard, recently deceased,… Editor No Comments
Blog 24 Oct 2016 The CIA’s Involvement in Indonesia and the Assassinations of JFK and Dag Hammarskjold By Edward Curtin and Greg Poulgrain Global Research, July 22, 2016 In the "City of God," St. Augustine tells the… Editor No Comments
Blog 13 Oct 2016 An Open Letter to Michelle Obama, October 13, 2016 WN: A friend reminded me, in response to that below, that none of us in the first world is… Editor No Comments
Blog 13 Aug 2016 Eat Me: The Cannibalistic Origins of the State David Gornoski Friday, August 05, 2016 This an outstanding piece, especially in the writer's powerful juxtaposition of Jesus' invitation to… Editor No Comments
Blog 08 Jul 2016 Of Lethal Drones and Police Shootings Friday, 08 July 2016 00:00 By Kathy Kelly, Consortium News | Op-Ed photo above: Demonstrators record a crowd of police… Editor No Comments
Blog 29 Mar 2015 The London Bombs, July 2005 By Wayne Northey July 9, 2005 Dear Editor: Prime Minister Tony Blair hypocritically called the London bombings “barbaric attacks.” On… Editor No Comments
Blog 29 Mar 2015 We Are Mansfield Park image above: The young Fanny and the "well-meant condescensions of Sir Thomas Bertram" on her arrival at Mansfield Park. A… Editor No Comments
Blog 19 Mar 2015 Whither Now? Justice Without Violence Conference, June 5 - 7, 1997, Albany, New York An excerpt: Introduction Whither Now? The question presupposes… Editor 2 Comments
Blog 19 Mar 2015 Victims, violence and Christianity by René Girard. WN: It is an edited version of The Martin D’Arcy Lecture delivered in Oxford in November 1997.… Editor No Comments
Blog 19 Mar 2015 Transformative Justice Vision and Spirituality WN: Some of the material in the essay below, now reworked, first appeared in The Spiritual Roots of Restorative Justice,… Editor No Comments
Blog 14 Mar 2015 Spirituality of Restorative Justice WN: Presented at Arts & Peace Festival, Restorative Justice Workshop, March 1, 2001. Something similar was also presented at Regent… Editor No Comments
Blog 14 Mar 2015 Spirituality Evaluation of Restorative Justice Sixth International Conference on Restorative Justice, “Best Practices in Restorative Justice”, June 4, 2003 WN: I attended and presented at… Editor No Comments
Blog 14 Mar 2015 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. An excerpt: A few years… Editor No Comments
Blog 13 Mar 2015 The Sports Crowd is Untruth WN: This was written in response to the Vancouver Stanley Cup riot in 2011. An excerpt: Søren Kierkegaard wrote “The… Editor No Comments
Blog 06 Mar 2015 Is Paul the Father of Misogyny and Antisemitism? WN: This paper highlighted below answers in the negative the question posed in the title. It was written by Pamela… Editor No Comments
Blog 05 Mar 2015 Transformative Justice Vision and Spirituality: M2/W2 Association and The Criminal Justice System This paper was done in May 2002 for a presentation at a Correctional Service of Canada institution. I do not… Editor No Comments
13 May 2014 Holding Forth . . . . . . or fifth . . . or sixth . . . SEARCH and ARCHIVES options are at the… Editor No Comments
28 Apr 2014 Bloomfield Avenue A Jewish-Catholic Jersey Girl’s Spiritual Journey, Linda Mercadante, Cambridge, Massachussets: Cowley Publications, 2006; 211 pages Linda was a friend from… Editor
10 Apr 2014 Against The Death Penalty Christian and Secular Arguments Against Capital Punishment, Gardner C. Hanks, Herald Press, 1997; 208 pages After this review was published… Editor
Blog 12 Mar 2014 Transformative Justice Vision and Spirituality WN: Much of this material first appeared in The Spiritual Roots of Restorative Justice, “Christianity: The Rediscovery of Restorative Justice”,… Editor No Comments
Blog 26 Feb 2014 Restorative Justice and Spiritual Origins November 19, 2004 WN: I cannot recall where this was published/presented. A similar article also on this website ("Restorative Justice… Editor No Comments
Blog 25 Feb 2014 Punishment and Retribution By C.F.D. Moule WN: The following is from the "Preface" of the MCC (Mennonite Central Committee "Occasional Paper" Publication, 1990)… Editor No Comments
Blog 25 Feb 2014 Spirituality Evaluation of Restorative Justice Sixth International Conference on Restorative Justice, “Best Practices in Restorative Justice”, June 4, 2003 An excerpt: A few years ago,… Editor No Comments
Blog 24 Feb 2014 The Spirituality of Penal Abolition ICOPA IX Presentation 2000 Noted Canadian Quaker activist and author Dr. Ruth Morris was the main organizer of the above… Editor No Comments
Blog 22 Feb 2014 Towards A New Paradigm of Justice WN: Contemporary Western Restorative Justice theory and practice were not first developed by Americans, though they have greatly contributed to… Editor No Comments
22 Feb 2014 Beyond Retribution A New Testament Vision for Justice, Crime, and Punishment,Christopher D. Marshall, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2001, 342 pages. An… Editor
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 Sep 2021 How America Fractured Into Four Parts By George Packer July/August 2021 Issue The Atlantic image above: Lucy Jones WN: Wow! The essay is stunning as it… Editor 2 Comments
Blog 29 Dec 2017 Cardinal Law’s complex role in the contemporary history of clergy sexual abuse December 28, 2017 by Thomas P. Doyle photo: Boston Cardinal Bernard Law bows his head as a victim of clergy… Editor No Comments
Blog 04 May 2016 Nonviolence and the Book of Revelation with an Annotated Bibliography by Paul Nuechterlein an excerpt: When I wrote the first draft of this page (May 2007), I was wondering if… Editor No Comments
Blog 04 May 2016 Re-Sacralizing Violence in the Left Behind Books by Paul Nuechterlein An excerpt: From the perspective of mimetic theory, the most serious problem with the Left Behind series… Editor No Comments
Blog 14 Apr 2016 Does Faith Breed Violence? Book review of Not in God's Name: Confronting Religious Violence, Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, New York: Schoken Books, 2015. You may… Editor No Comments
Blog 04 Mar 2015 A Great Irony of History: The Anthropological Significance of the Cross, and Peace WN: I wrote this and presented it at the Colloquium on Violence and Religion (COV&R) June 19, 2008. Paul Nuechterlein… Editor No Comments
Blog 17 May 2014 Chapter Sixty-Three In 2007 I first published Chrysalis Crucible, a coming-of-age novel about young Andy Norton who goes off to West Berlin… Editor No Comments
Blog 16 May 2014 Chapter Forty-Eight In 2007 I first published Chrysalis Crucible, a coming-of-age novel about young Andy Norton who goes off to West Berlin… Editor No Comments
