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… 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… No Comments
Blog 06 Oct 2020 Restorative Justice: Peacemaking NOT Warmaking IRPJ.org (Institute for Religion, Peace & Justice) presents an interview with Wayne Northey (host: Brad Jersak) highlighting the contrast between… No Comments
Blog 23 Apr 2019 From Restorative Justice to Transformative Justice, Tri-Cities Justice Forum, November 29, 1999 From Restorative Justice to Transformative Justice, Tri-Cities Justice Forum, November 29, 1999 WN: I had forgotten about presentations such as… No Comments
Blog 24 May 2017 ANCIENT PRACTICES OF RESTORATIVE JUSTICE 7th International CURE Conference on Human Rights & Prison Reform April 25-29, Alajuela San Jose, Costa Rica by Bruno van der Maat… 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… 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… 2 Comments
Blog 07 Jul 2016 Restorative justice is on the rise in Canada Information Morning - NS, CBC Radio This is a great interview! June 28, 2016 Please click on: RJ on the… No Comments
Blog 17 Mar 2015 The Spiritual Roots of Restorative Justice – Christianity WN: This paper was jointly written by Pierre Allard and me. It arose from a book publication by the same… 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… 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… 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… No Comments
Blog 13 Mar 2015 Restorative Justice and Prison Ministry WN: This was written in 2001 for the Mennonite Brethren Herald. Please click on: RJ & M2W2 - MB Herald,… No Comments
Blog 13 Mar 2015 Restorative Justice WN: This was written for a now defunct magazine called "Friend". It is a brief statement about Restorative Justice. Please… No Comments
Blog 05 Mar 2015 ‘In the Middle:’ Biblical Reflections on Restorative Justice WN: Tom Yoder Neufeld presented this to the Mennonite Central Committee Canada Restorative Justice Network in Winnipeg in 2003. It… No Comments
Blog 26 Feb 2014 “Not Enough!” and International Restorative Justice Colloquium on Violence & Religion (COV&R) Presentation, May 31 – June 4, 2006, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada WN: When I finally… No Comments
Blog 26 Feb 2014 Restorative Justice Stories – MCCC 50th Anniversary, December 14, 2013 WN: This paper was presented in Winnipeg exactly 50 years after 40 men(!) gathered to establish Mennoninte Central Committee Canada:… 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… No Comments
Blog 25 Feb 2014 Restorative Justice Vision and Spirituality Association for Reformed Political Action (ARPA) Presentation, Langley Canadian Reformed Church, March 5, 2005 WN: I was grateful to co-present… 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,… No Comments
Blog 25 Feb 2014 Restorative Justice and Prison Visitation WN: The following was written for the Mennonite Brethren Herald, and published August 2001. This was also typical of similar articles… No Comments
Blog 24 Feb 2014 Creating New Hearts: Moving From Retributive to Restorative Justice New Zealand Catholic Bishops Conference: A Pastoral Letter to the Catholic People of New Zealand Wednesday August 30, 1995 -… No Comments
Blog 22 Feb 2014 A Brief Look At Restorative Justice NOTE: This was written several years ago to give a basic look at Restorative Justice. It has been slightly updated,… 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… No Comments
17 Jun 2021 Beyond Retribution: A New Testament Vision for Justice, Crime, and Punishment Beyond Retribution: A New Testament Vision for Justice, Crime, and Punishment, Christopher D. Marshall, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2001,… No Comments
Blog 25 Feb 2020 New Book! — Justice That Transforms: Volume 1 WN: Wipf and Stock Publishers gratefully re-published (my re-edited) Volume 1 of a series by the same title, January 9,… No Comments
Blog 16 Feb 2019 Why the Justice Department Can’t Be Trusted to Investigate Abysmal Conditions in Federal Prisons Why the Justice Department Can’t Be Trusted to Investigate Abysmal Conditions in Federal Prisons Natasha Lennard February 9 2019, 6:00 a.m.… No Comments
Blog 11 Nov 2018 The Cross: God’s Peace Work – Towards a Restorative Peacemaking Understanding of the Atonement The Cross: God’s Peace Work – Towards a Restorative Peacemaking Understanding of the Atonement WN: This was written initially as… No Comments
24 Sep 2018 Justice That Transforms — Book Series First 3 Volumes Fall 2018; Volume One Republished January 2020; two more projected late 2023 SEARCH and ARCHIVES options are…
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,… No Comments
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”,… No Comments
Blog 26 Feb 2014 Restorative Reintegration Sixth International Conference on Restorative Justice, “Best Practices in Restorative Justice”, June 1, 2003 photo above: reintegrationaustralia.com.au An excerpt: For… 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… No Comments
26 Jan 2014 Compassionate Justice An Interdisciplinary Dialogue with Two Gospel Parables on Law, Crime, and Restorative Justice, Christopher D. Marshall, Eugene Oregon: Cascade Books,… No Comments
Blog 22 Mar 2022 Circles of Support and Accountability Needless to say, I believe in Restorative Justice and CoSA! No Comments
Blog 09 Jul 2024 Rediscovering Spiritual Roots: WN: This was done for a double issue of a U.S. journal, called The Justice Professional Volume 11,… 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… 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… 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… No Comments
09 Oct 2022 Sitemap SEARCH and ARCHIVES options are at the bottom of all website pages. Front Page Sitemap Blog Privacy Policy About Me… No Comments
Blog 15 May 2022 David Milgaard, a Dear Friend, Died Suddenly and Unexpectedly Today image above: David Milgaard is photographed after a press conference held by Innocence Canada in Toronto on October 9, 2019.… No Comments
Blog 10 May 2022 Devotional – M2/W2 Staff-Board Retreat, June 12, 1999 WN: In 1998, I became Executive Director of M2/W2, a Restorative Justice/Prison Visitation program. I held that position until retirement… No Comments
Blog 01 May 2022 Reflections on: How Tucker Carlson Stoked White Fear to Conquer Cable By Nicholas Confessore April 30, 2022 WN: "Mr. Carlson asked a guest in 2017. 'Is that bigoted?' " Yes, Mr.… No Comments
Blog 22 Apr 2022 RJ World eConference 2022 WN: The second RJ World eConference too place, April 23-30, 2022. About the first, two years ago, you may view… 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,… No Comments
Blog 09 Dec 2021 Introducing THE ANÁSTISIS CENTER FOR CHRISTIAN EDUCATION & MINISTRY photo above: On the ceiling of Chora Church in Istanbul, Turkey, is this fresco, called Anástasis in Greek. It portrays… 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… No Comments
Blog 06 Nov 2021 Reflections on “Drone Strikes and Torture Will Cause Big Blowback” November 5, 2021 by Brian Cloughley photo above: AK Rockefeller – CC BY 2.0 WN: It is ominous to read… No Comments
Blog 04 Oct 2021 On A letter from Hell By Robin Schumacher, Exclusive Columnist photo above: pxhere.com WN: It is interesting that the photo chosen for the article highlighted… No Comments
Blog 30 Sep 2021 Josh McDowell steps back from ministry after controversial remarks on black families By Michael Gryboski, Christian Post Reporter September 23, 2021 photo above: Josh McDowell speaks at Talbot Chapel at Biola University… No Comments
Blog 17 Sep 2021 Pope Francis told bishops to shepherd pro-choice politicians ‘with God’s style.’ Sam Sawyer, S.J. September 17, 2021 photo above: Pope Francis celebrates a Mass in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican… 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… No Comments
19 Jul 2021 Front Page Augustine recounts this story of Empire: The king asked the fellow, “What is your idea, in infesting the sea?” And… 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… No Comments
17 Jun 2021 Against the Death Penalty: Christian and Secular Arguments Against Capital Punishment Against the Death Penalty: Christian and Secular Arguments Against Capital Punishment, Gardner C. Hanks, Herald Press, 1997; 208 pages After… No Comments
Blog 02 Jun 2021 Canada’s Solitary Confinement Deemed “Torture”: WN: Please consider signing the petition begun today. After nearly fifty years of work in Canada's Criminal Justice System, and… No Comments
Blog 28 Apr 2021 Opinion: Prolonged solitary confinement is torture. It’s time for all states to ban it. Opinion by Tammie Gregg and Donna Lieberman April 28, 2021 at 5:00 a.m. PDT image above: Julie Lai for The Washington… No Comments
Blog 25 Apr 2021 Out of Sight / Out of Mind The Magazine: Spring 2021 COVID-19 in prisons got our attention. Manitoba has quietly been home to the highest incarceration rates… No Comments
Blog 25 Mar 2021 Why America’s Great Crime Decline Is Over March 24, 2021 Derek Thompson Staff writer at The Atlantic photo above: wisegeek.com WN: The "new model" called for in… No Comments
Blog 15 Mar 2021 Introducing: The Kenarchy Journal NOTE on image above: Foot washing by UK artist Dinah Roe Kendall WN: It is exciting to introduce The Kenarchy… No Comments
Blog 06 Mar 2021 Cornel West: The Whiteness of Harvard and Wall Street Is “Jim Crow, New Style” By George Yancy, Truthout Published March 5, 2021 photo above: yankeewikis.com WN: I first became involved with men in prison… 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… 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… No Comments
Blog 22 Jan 2021 Donald Trump’s new reality: By George T. Conway III January 22, 2021 WN: George Conway knows American law and history, clearly has done his… No Comments
04 Dec 2020 Dancing With Elephants: Mindfulness Training For Those Living With Dementia, Chronic Illness or an Aging Brain, Book Review of Dancing With Elephants: Mindfulness Training For Those Living With Dementia, Chronic Illness or an Aging Brain Jarem… 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… 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… No Comments
Blog 02 Aug 2020 RJWorld eConference, August 22 – 31, 2020: David Milgaard & Wayne Northey RJ World 2020 was a 17-day (extended 7 days) online showcase of more than 100 inspiring presenters from around the… No Comments
01 Jul 2020 Book Review of Dispelling The Clouds Book Review of Dispelling The Clouds by Wilma Derksen [NOTE: Please click on highlighted title above to be taken to… No Comments
19 Jan 2020 Book Review of Christianity and Pluralism, Ron Dart and J. I. Packer, Lexham Press, 2019; 70 pages Book Review of Christianity and Pluralism, Ron Dart and J. I. Packer, Lexham Press, 2019; 70 pages WN: This brief… No Comments
Blog 12 Oct 2019 Why this ‘genius’ scholar is mapping out the world’s largest jail system photo above: Kelly Lytle Hernández, who received the MacArthur ‘genius’ grant, views prison abolition through the eyes of rebels Fri… No Comments
Blog Church of Holy Sepulchre 14 May 2019 Good Friday Sermon and Easter Sermon, 2017 by Randy Klassen Good Friday Sermon and Easter Sermon, 2017 by Randy Klassen photo above: Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem WN: Randy… 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… No Comments
Blog 16 Dec 2018 Trump routinely says things that aren’t true. Few Americans believe him. Trump routinely says things that aren’t true. Few Americans believe him. Polling A new Washington Post Fact Checker poll Take… No Comments
28 Mar 2018 Compulsory Compassion A Critique of Restorative Justice, Annalise Acorn, Vancouver: UBC Press, 2004, 207 pages WN: A Christian acquaintance and fellow theological… No Comments
14 Jan 2018 Dancing With Elephants Mindfulness Training For Those Living With Dementia, Chronic Illness or an Aging Brain (2017), Jarem Sawatsky, Winnipeg: Red Canoe Press… No Comments
Blog 14 Dec 2017 “Prison, Sexual Assault, and Editing John Howard Yoder: One Man’s Story” by Andy Alexis-Baker WN: In January 1975, I read John Howard Yoder's The Politics of Jesus at an Inter-term course taught by Clark… No Comments
Blog 25 Nov 2017 A Better Man WN: This is a riveting film about a former couple who meet up 20 years after the male subjected his… 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… No Comments
Blog 26 Feb 2015 A Halting Spiritual Quest A Halting Spiritual Quest WN: This was given as a talk to a Mennonite Fellowship, and to a group of… No Comments
25 Feb 2015 Violence, Hospitality, and the Cross Reappropriating the Atonement Tradition, Hans Boersma, Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2004, 288 pages. WN: Both in dialogue and in reading… No Comments
13 May 2014 Holding Forth . . . . . . or fifth . . . or sixth . . . SEARCH and ARCHIVES options are at the… No Comments
Blog Original Cinema Quad Poster - Movie Film Posters 29 Apr 2014 WAR AND HELL – and Exception-Clause Footnote Theology WN: War and Hell is an interactive essay with a movie and a book. The movie: Saving Private Ryan. The… No Comments
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…
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… No Comments
Blog 10 Mar 2014 Enemy Love As Core Gospel WN: I wrote this in the context of M2/W2 ministry. Ironically, the Board and one contractor displayed profound enmity towards… 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… 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… 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…
30 Jan 2014 About Me SEARCH and ARCHIVES options are at the bottom of all website pages. I retired as Director of Man-to-Man/Woman-to-Woman--Restorative Christian Ministries… No Comments
Blog 15 Feb 2023 Book Review of: Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation Book Review of: Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation Kristin Kobes Du… No Comments
15 Feb 2023 Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation Book Review of: Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation Kristin Kobes Du… No Comments
Blog 22 Apr 2022 Paul and Christian Social Responsibility WN: New Testament scholar Chris Marshall first published this piece in 2000. There is another piece on this site (Is… No Comments
Blog 25 Feb 2022 Spotlight on: Putin’s spiritual destiny Giles Fraser is a journalist, broadcaster and Rector at the south London church of St Mary’s, Newington image above: ft.com… No Comments
Blog 08 Apr 2021 Dianne Tramutola-Lawson–Class of ’60 WN: Dianne is one of the amazing volunteers in charge of Colorado CURE. Please enjoy this brief interview: You may… No Comments
Blog 11 Jul 2020 The Case for Reparations Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of… No Comments
Blog 19 Nov 2019 America’s Arms Sales Addiction November 17, 2019 The 50-Year History of U.S. Dominance of the Middle Eastern Arms Trade By William D. Hartung Honestly,… No Comments
Blog 13 Apr 2017 Mandela Rules Highlight Conference April 25-29 in Costa Rica I'll be speaking at this conference and will present this paper. Below is the press release for this event: The… No Comments
Blog 24 Nov 2016 Vengeance is Love – Klaas Goverts (trans. Floris and Judith Kersloot) WN: The brief article below so captures the absolute essence of biblical justice, biblical vengeance. See also my book review… No Comments
Blog 14 Apr 2016 Putting a Human Face on Capital Punishment Jamie Arpin-Ricci, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016 This book appears to be very good! The interview with the author is… No Comments
14 Apr 2015 Atheist Delusions The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies, David Bentley Hart, New Haven & London: Yale Divinity Press, 2009, 253pp. An… No Comments
Blog 29 Mar 2015 Jarhead, Montréal Shooting Spree, and Western Civilization It was while descending from a hike up Elk Mountain in the eastern Fraser Valley of British Columbia that someone… No Comments
Blog 20 Mar 2015 Introduction to Death Penalty Forum WN: I had forgotten about this forum... Please click on: CP Dialogue introduction No Comments
02 Mar 2015 The Fall of the Prison Biblical Perspectives on Prison Abolition, Lee Griffith, Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1993. 258pp. WN: This is a profound piece of… No Comments
Blog 28 Feb 2015 Capital Punishment image above: izquotes.com WN: I was invited to dialogue with Dr. Richard Land of (later) “The Ethics and Religious Liberty… No Comments
26 Jan 2015 The Executed God The Way of the Cross in Lockdown America, Mark Lewis Taylor, Fortress Press, 2001, 208 pp. excerpts: “Is it a… No Comments
22 Feb 2014 The Death Penalty An Historical and Theological Survey, James J. Megivern, New York/Mahwah, N. J.: Paulist Press 1997, 641 pages. An excerpt: “In…
22 Feb 2014 No Future Without Forgiveness WN: Desmond Mpilo Tutu, New York: Doubleday, 1999, 294 pp. I wrote this review several years ago. Some felt I…
18 Feb 2014 God’s Just Vengeance Crime, violence and the rhetoric of salvation, Timothy Gorringe, Cambridge University Press, 1996, 280 pages An excerpt: "This book examines…
