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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 Paul the Father of Misogyny and Antisemitism?), by Pamela Eisenbaum, Pauline scholar, practising Jew, feminist, and professor at a Christian seminary (Iliff School of Theology). She subsequently wrote Paul was not a Christian: The Original […]

PAULIST FATHERS STATEMENT ON MORAL ISSUES IN THE 2016 U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

photo above: St. Mary’s of the Lake, Lake George, N.Y. – Paulist Fathers, www.paulist.org Though this is not a ringing disavowal of war (when will the RC Church – and so many other churches – ultimately reject “just war” for the heresy it is?), it in many ways is encouraging. And though the Paulist Bishops […]

Paul’s Gospel and Caesar’s Empire

WN: Arguably the two greatest New Testament era historians in the world today are James D. G. Dunn and N. T. Wright, both British. In this piece by N.T. Wright, we see Paul as the towering dissenter against (Roman) Empire. Paul was impossibly radical, whose life and ideas shatter social conventions of the civitas terrena […]

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 Eisenbaum, Pauline scholar, practising Jew, feminist, and professor at a Christian seminary. She subsequently wrote Paul was not a Christian: The Original Message of a Misunderstood Apostle. I delivered a sermon inspired by her, entitled […]

Reconciliation–WN Contribution to:

illustration above: The rescue by (Anabaptist) Dirk Willems. Engraving by Jan Luiken in Martyrs Mirror, v. 2, p. 387 of Dutch edition. Scan provided by Mennonite Library and Archives WN: Reconciliation is a key term in the New Testament. The article excerpted below was written in 1989 at the invitation of The Mennonite Encyclopedia (Volume […]

Re-issuing: How Fossil Fuel Money Made Climate Change Denial the Word of God

by Brendan O’Connor August 8, 2017 WN: I decided to republish this article of seven years ago. The supreme haughty superiority of Christians who just know all the massive, irrefutable science about human-caused climate change — as the massive scientific support for the Darwinian theory of evolution — are all a big hoax, “because the […]

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 million Rwandans murdered. CBC did the interview you see below. 30 years after Rwandan genocide, Roméo Dallaire feels ‘rage’ amid global crises | Watch (msn.com) Roméo Dallaire led the UN’s peacekeeping mission when more than […]

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 footnote; and four additional songs below that.*** Please also see two great sermons, one on Good Friday, the other on Easter Sunday, by my colleague Randy Klassen: both in the context of criminal/restorative justice. Easter […]

Comments On: Amazing Disgrace

By Sarah Posner Illustration above by Brian Reedy. Think of the illustration in conjunction with this hugely ironic quote, one that said far more about Christian Nationalist sentiment than the good reverend knew: “We put God right at the center of the White House.” —Paula White, speaking at an Evangelicals for Trump event at Solid […]

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 Mez, Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2020, 356 pages WN: This is one of the few times I also posted a book review to this Blog. This is a highly disturbing–and informative–book. In an interview with Religion […]

Commentary On: How can I reconcile the good and evil of Jean Vanier?

Colleen Dulle photo above: Jean Vanier, founder of the L’Arche communities, is pictured in a Feb. 17, 2015, photo. (CNS photo/courtesy Jean Vanier Association)  WN: What does one do with this revelation of a man almost universally considered a saint? My mind goes to: what, in the end is the difference between Vanier and (dare I […]

The Great Sumas Lake Heist: A Guilty Little Secret in Plain Sight

Sumas Lake until a century ago covered about 10% of the Fraser Valley’s fertile farmland. Then it was ‘disappeared.’ Whatever happened? And what to do about it? NOTE: There are several footnotes that add related material to the article, that for some may be of interest. NOTE 2:It was exactly a year ago that the […]

Covenant of Peace

The Missing Peace in New Testament Theology and Ethics, Willard M. Swartley, Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2006 WN: This is about THE book of peace theology for the 21st century! More is said in my review. an excerpt: It was my good fortune to have spent a little time with Mennonite New Testament theologian Willard Swartley […]

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 University of British Columbia campus to a secular/Christian audience. An excerpt from the first: Introduction A few years ago, a man phoned me and asked if I had some time for a talk. I replied […]

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 Zoom, to discuss his new book on Ivan Illich. It is titled, as you can see: Ivan Illich: An Intellectual Journey. We are delighted. Our meetings are the last Tuesdays of each month at 3:30 […]

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 Restorative Justice and Spiritual Origins, November 19, 2004 By Wayne Northey In 1974 two youths who had been drinking and had been “talked to” by the police already, took out their frustrations on the small […]

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, and an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Business at the University of the Fraser Valley. Is Violence Master of Us All?: Fight, Flight or Just Peacemaking Philosopher’s Café: Legal Grounds Coffee House, Abbotsford, April […]

The Teacher Who Never Spoke

By Maureen Swinger November 22, 2021 WN: So beautiful. So very humbling. So complicatedly hopeful. excerpts: [su_dropcap]T[/su_dropcap]he summer my brother Duane turned twenty, a formidable young man stayed with us on a break from the Ivy League. He had never, to anyone’s knowledge, lost an argument. Several weeks into his visit, my mother walked into […]

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 them, “You know nothing at all! 50You do not realize that it is better for you that one man die for the people than that the whole nation perish.” 51Caiaphas did not say this on […]

Commentary on: “Gomez, painting Catholics as victims, goes after his woke oppressors”

Nov 10, 2021 by Thomas Reese, Religion News Service Opinion Politics photo above: Wikipedia WN: I felt gobsmacked by the Archbishop’s earlier speech. More: I felt embarrassed to identify as a Christian alongside such seeming anti-Christ sentiments (though I’m not Roman Catholic). As I read that article, I kept thinking, surely he’ll pull up from […]

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 information, along with a saturated reconstruction (multicolored cylinder) from a mouse cortex. Courtesy of Lichtman Lab at Harvard University. WN: The article highlighted below got me thinking . . . In my post Easter Song: […]

Concerning “Military vs Climate Spending: A Moral Catastrophe in Three Pictures”

Richard Eskow October 28, 2021 photo above: youtube.com WN: The charts below tell a compelling story of overweening Greed, Hatred and Fear–the three longstanding Counter-Virtues of American militarized capitalism.1 The Three Theological Virtues  by contrast are . . . Faith, Hope, and Charity (Love), and can trace their importance in Christian theology to Paul the […]

Interaction With “The CIA: 70 Years of Organized Crime”

September 22, 2017 by Douglas Valentine – Lars Schall photo above by Tom Thai | CC BY 2.0 WN: Welcome to America the Beautiful. As kids, my brothers and I loved the highlighted song, as sung by George Beverly Shea–who performed in front of more people than any other singer in history. We played it […]

Legacy of Shame:

October 19, 2021 by Kenn Orphan photo above: Photograph Source: Reagan White House Photographs – Public Domain WN: Saint Augustine recounts this story of Empire: The king asked the fellow, “What is your idea, in infesting the sea?” And the pirate answered, with uninhibited insolence, “the same as yours, in infesting the earth! But because […]

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 asks though, how can the church accept me with all my _____? The answer obviously is: because everyone else at church has a variation of that _____ too. During the pandemic, there have been a […]

Justice and Peace:

Lumen Christi Institute Streamed live, October 7, 2021 image above: smp.org WN: The Catholic Criminal Justice Reform Network does excellent events. One presentation you will hear is not just about reform: it is about “radical reconsideration” of Public Safety, including a call for abolition of the police–in favour of a far more powerful communal presence […]

Trump Extremists Brought Numerous Guns on January 6, Evidence Shows

Mark Follman, Dan Friedman, Ryan Little, and Sam Van Pykeren September 30, 2021 photo above: Mother Jones illustration; John Minchillo/AP; Official Congressional Directory WN: And so it goes . . . Tragic. Sick. Dangerous. Deadly. Some family members are speaking out against some of the rally’s ringleaders: Republican Accountability Project, which has been calling out […]

Engelhardt, A Hellfire World

By Tom Engelhardt photo above: ‘THEY ARE ALL DEAD’: Harrowing leaked footage shows US drone strikes in Afghanistan as pilot admits killing two civilians & child by mistake; Imogen Braddick WN: What can one say? God damn the monstrous capacity of the West (of course elsewhere too!) to cold-bloodedly commit mass murder via drone strike […]

9/11 was a test:

Essay by Carlos Lozada Illustration above: by Patrik Svensson Sept. 3, 2021 [pullquote]. . . the official response to 9/11 unleashed some of its worst qualities: deception, brutality, arrogance, ignorance, delusion, overreach and carelessness.[/pullquote]WN: Below are excerpts from an outstanding essay by a Pulitzer Prizer winner for criticism in 2019. But the last lines, though […]

‘Get scared’: World’s scientists say disastrous climate change is here

By ZACK COLMAN and KARL MATHIESEN 08/09/2021 04:01 AM EDT Updated: 08/09/2021 03:29 PM EDT photo above: Fire burns during a wildfire near the village of Schinos, Greece, on May 19, 2021. | Valerie Gache/AP Photo WN: We have met the enemy, and he is US.–Pogo We have seen the forecast, and it is NOW! […]

Covid Is Now a Crisis for the Unvaccinated

By Aaron E. Carroll Dr. Carroll is the chief health officer for Indiana University. He’s also a writer who focuses on health research and policy. photo above: Tim Gruber for The New York Times WN1: The consistent messaging is: If for no other reason, because of our neighbour, we should get vaccinated. There is also […]

The Threat of an Unvaccinated South

By Adam Harris July 22, 2021 photo above: kyma.com WN: Sadly, idiot politicians like the one mentioned in the second last paragraph (see if you can guess who!) are creating enormous smoke screens of outright lies, and thereby threaten potentially millions. For, As [Shweta Bansal, an associate professor and an infectious-disease expert at Georgetown University] […]

What were the Capitol rioters thinking on Jan. 6?

By Dan Zak and Karen Heller July 20, 2021 photo above: (Robert Carter for The Washington Post) WN: Sadly, the person guilty of First Degree Insurrection–along with a sycophantic GOP almost en masse–is not yet in the dock or jail. May his day hasten . . . Please see also: ‘Some are still suffering’: Months […]

Gospel as Counter-Narrative to Empire

SEARCH and ARCHIVES options are at the bottom of all website pages. The website is dedicated to: The Gospel as Counter-Narrative to Empire.     More on Empire below. PLEASE NOTE: the Sitemap. There is also a list of all Book Reviews separately, and alongside each post. You may search the Blog too. Please consider […]

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 Mush Hole’ (Photograph by Alex Jacobs-Blum) WN: This statement from the article highlighted below haunts me: These acts were done on behalf of every non-Indigenous family who proudly calls themselves Canadians, because this is what […]

Opinion: Nikole Hannah-Jones just proved the correctness of critical race theory

Opinion by Paul Butler Contributing columnist July 8, 2021 photo above: Nikole Hannah-Jones during an interview in Brooklyn on Tuesday. (John Minchillo/AP) WN: The highlighted article is all tragically true. excerpts: Nikole Hannah-Jones, and the epic failure of the University of North Carolina to recruit the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist to its faculty, just proved the […]

The war inside the Canadian Armed Forces

By Marie-Danielle Smith July 8, 2021 illustration above: by Anna Minzhulina WN: Military. Police. Prisons.1 All are rife with abuse within. As the article states: The Canadian Armed Forces, as an institution, has a necessarily coercive culture. Leaders must have a high degree of authority and control over their subordinates in order for the military […]

The Wisdom of Trauma

WN: The video is beautifully presented and wonderfully hopeful! Dr. Gabor Maté is an amazingly wise and compassionate healer. TAKE NOTE: It is free to view these next two days. There is also much of interest and help on the SAND (Science and Nonduality) website. We read there: The mission of SAND is to forge […]

One priest’s message to the church: ‘Shut your mouth and just listen’

By Maclean’s June 8, 2021 photo above: Shoes are placed on the lawn outside the former Kamloops Indian Residential School on June 4, 2021 (Darryl Dyck/CP)  WN: I think I’ll just shut my mouth and listen . . . You may wish to view the video first, then read some excerpts. excerpts: Last Sunday, Father […]

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 stretcher on May 20 after being injured during Game 1 of the Maple Leafs’ first-round playoff series against Montreal. (Frank Gunn/The Canadian Press via AP)  Ken Dryden, a former goaltender for the Montreal Canadiens and […]

Chris Hedges: God’s Covenant in the Promised Land

WN: The following video, God’s Covenant in the Promised Land, was powerful in 2014. It is tragically as true now as then! Below is the text with some commentary from Canadian Catholic writer/activist/professor Ted Schmidt (please see his recent book: I Was a Catholic Zionist: A Biblical Challenge to Tribalism and Idolatry); jtschmidt@bell.net. Then Jesus said […]

Why Canada’s special forces ‘shadow army’ is still fighting ISIS

By Adnan R. Khan May 11, 2021 photo above: Spec Ops Magazine WN: In short, Canada’s Special Operations Regiment (CSOR), are a bunch of trained hitmen. There is no declared war Canada is in1. Testimonials are ubiquitous that intelligence gathered by CSOR and others by its very nature is often faulty, frequently manipulated, at best […]

Trump’s Secret Rules for Drone Strikes Outside War Zones Are Disclosed

By Charlie Savage May 1, 2021 photo above: Targeted killings away from conventional war zones have been a central feature of the sprawling war on terrorism, raising legal and policy questions that remain in flux. Credit… Janis Laizans/Reuters WN: Of course the use of drones–as any aerial bombing–invariably murders civilians–often vast numbers. Two classic studies […]

Empire Politician:

The new president’s paper trail reveals a man who has often betrayed his own bedrock principles. Jeremy Scahill April 28 2021 WN: The article highlighted pulls no punches in underscoring Biden’s war-hawk and pro-police brutality policies over a lifetime as a politician. He–as anyone–still may change! But not his brutal record, as laid out in […]

Almost Everything Biden Said About Ending the Afghanistan War Was a Lie

April 27, 2021 by Sonali Kolhatkar image above: Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair chart below: The Washington Post, Fatal Force WN: Ethicist A. J. Coates writes in The Ethics of War: The moral prohibition of lying, for example, makes good sense in the context of personal relations, but no sense at all in affairs of […]

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 also click on St. Mary’s Academy link to article; and here is the link for St. Mary’s Academy. My wife and I have had the good fortune of being members, and I represent Canadian CURE. […]

I’ve been a priest for 50 years and still struggle with the problem of evil

John J. Strynkowski March 28, 2021 photo above: Photo by Markus Schumacher on Unsplash WN: The reflection highlighted below is profound and humbling. excerpts: I have been a priest for 57 years. Ever since I read The Brothers Karamazov as a seminarian, with its description of the rejection of God by Ivan, the middle brother, […]

Introducing: The Kenarchy Journal

NOTE on image above: Foot washing by UK artist Dinah Roe Kendall WN: It is exciting to introduce The Kenarchy Journal! Roger Mitchell1, the Editor and Founder, created the neologism, “kenarchy,” explaining: Kenarchy is a newly constructed word signifying an innovative, inclusive reconfiguration of Jesus’ politics of love. It is derived from ken(osis): emptying out […]

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 worse. By Justin Ling February 28, 2021 photo above: Medium security range at Stony Mountain Institution in Stony Mountain, Manitoba (Correctional Services Canada/Flickr) WN: The article highlighted does not sugar-coat the reality: Canadian prisons (and […]

On Misreading Victory

Tomgram January 7, 2020 By Andrew Bacevich illustration above: lindsaysocialstudies.weebly.com (President Theodore Roosevelt’s foreign policy: “Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.“) WN: There is great wisdom in the article highlighted. “Oh, when will they ever learn? Oh when will they ever learn?”–Peter, Paul and Mary excerpts: Thirty years ago this […]

Technology of Death:

March 26, 2020 by Ramzy Baroud photo above: Sgt. Paul L. Anstine III, U.S. Marine Corps – Public Domain WN: Israel is a brutal Empire, only less so than the U.S in one respect: scale. excerpts: The Middle East region, battered by wars and adjoining humanitarian crises that have left millions of people stateless, hungry […]

His pastors tried to steer him away from social media rage.

By Peter Manseau Feb. 19, 2021 photo above: Michael Sparks, far left, stands with other Trump supporters as they are confronted by U.S. Capitol Police officers outside the Senate chamber on Jan. 6. (Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP) WN: The article highlighted is an anatomy of a Trump cultist who stormed the Capitol. It did not turn […]

Neoliberalism –

Financial meltdown, environmental disaster and even the rise of Donald Trump – neoliberalism has played its part in them all. Why has the left failed to come up with an alternative? George Monbiot @GeorgeMonbiot Fri 15 Apr 2016 photo above: ‘No alternative’ … Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher at the White House. Photograph: Rex Features […]

On Some Bad House Manager Language

February 12, 2021 by Paul Street photo above: Backbone Campaign – CC BY 2. WN: The highlighted article is a succinct dismantling of any notion that the United States is a democracy. We Canadians and other democracies are plagued by some of the same issues. But the so-claimed “oldest democracy” was never intended to be, […]

Reckoning with the Toxicity of Christian Nationalism

By Bill Berkowitz February 8, 2021 WN: The article highlighted below is very disturbing for followers of the one Mark Lewis Taylor dubs The Executed God (book review here, with the subtitle: The Way of the Cross in Lockdown America). I stand in perpetual amazement at how the New Testament Jesus is read to be […]

National Security Experts Warn Trump “Is Promoting Terrorism”

National Security Experts Warn Trump “Is Promoting Terrorism” The president’s post-election incitement expands on a tactic he has long used: stochastic terrorism. Mark Follman National Affairs Editor Bio | Follow Politics photo above: A person in a gas mask protests Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s pandemic policies at the Michigan State Capitol in May 2020Paul Sancya/AP December […]

Trump’s Politics Fractured My Family. Where Do We Go After The Election?

Trump’s Politics Fractured My Family. Where Do We Go After The Election? I’m a Democrat, they’re Republicans. Healing the political divide will be America’s next challenge. Updated 11/13/2020 By Jenn Merritt, Special To HuffPost     WN: The article highlighted below holds special sadness for me, given a similar concern in our family with some […]

Gustavo Gutiérrez and the preferential option for the poor

Nov 8, 2011 by John Dear Blog | On the Road to Peace WN: What can one say? The highlighted article is deeply humbling. I could have cited the entire article, so full of wisdom and insight–and great challenge! As well, the overwhelming opposite juxtaposition leaps out in light of the just-released McCarrick Report: The […]

The McCarrick Report: The Vatican Owns Up To Enabling Abuse

The McCarrick Report: The Vatican Owns Up To Enabling Abuse November 10, 2020 by Mary Pezzulo WN: The article highlighted is powerful! It also points to exponential pain, horror, and abuse of those reporting their abuse by priests–by the wider Church which gaslighted/gaslights/revictimized/revictimizes victims beyond imagining . . . One reads and weeps all over […]

‘He’s Destroyed Conservatism’: The Republican Case Against Trump’s GOP

Stuart Stevens was a winning GOP operative. Now he feels terrible about what he’s done to the country. By MICHAEL GRUNWALD Michael Grunwald is a senior staff writer for Politico Magazine. 08/19/2020 photo above: AP/Patrick Semansky [NOTE: It took an article by Bob Ekblad (Blind and Deaf) in Clarion Journal, noted below, to occasion a revision […]

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 by 7 days) online showcase of more than 100 inspiring presenters from around the world – facilitators / practitioners / teachers / researchers / artists – who are passionate about sharing insights and ideas in […]

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 has been simple and urgent: Nuclear weapons have totally failed us. They don’t make us safer; they don’t provide jobs; they don’t make us more secure—these are age-old lies. Instead they bankrupt us, economically and […]

How China’s Fails, Lies and Secrecy Ignited a Pandemic Explosion

The regime now is in full propaganda mode, aided by the World Health Organization. Andrew Nikiforuk April 2, 2020| TheTyee.ca Andrew Nikiforuk is an award-winning journalist who has been writing about the energy industry for three decades and is a contributing editor to The Tyee. Find his previous stories here. photo above: Xi Jinping, general […]

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, 2020. The first edition had been published September 2018. The graphic artist created a beautiful cover, as you can see! You may click on the cover to be taken to the Publishers’ website page for […]

“Nothing” bishop gets frank on married priests, Vatican under Francis

“Nothing” bishop gets frank on married priests, Vatican under Francis Feb 19, 2020 by Joshua J. McElwee photo above: Bishop John Michael Botean of the Romanian Catholic Eparchy of St George’s in Canton, Ohio, returns to his seat after receiving Communion as bishops of the Eastern Catholic churches in the U.S. concelebrate a Divine Liturgy […]

Crises in Iraq and Haiti Expose the Failure of Militarized Neoliberalism

It should be no surprise that the new governments installed by all these U.S. wars and coups are among the most corrupt regimes on earth.  Published on Thursday, October 10, 2019 by Common Dreams by Medea Benjamin and by Nicolas J S Davies photo above: Not only are they reeling from protests against government corruption […]

Beyond Impeachment: Remove This Regime from Below

October 1, 2019 by Paul Street photo above: White House – Public Domain WN: This is a powerful broadside against the Ultimate Bad Guy on the Planet: the Evil Empire of the United States of America! The vehemence is found not only in the colourful language, but even in the typos . . . Mr. […]

Ronald Wright: Can We Still Dodge the Progress Trap?

Author of 2004’s ‘A Short History of Progress’ issues a progress report. Ronald Wright 20 Sep 2019 | TheTyee.ca Ronald Wright’s 10 books include Time Among the Maya, Stolen Continents, and the award-winning dystopia A Scientific Romance. His Massey Lectures inspired Martin Scorsese’s 2011 documentary Surviving Progress. See also “‘Which Will Win, Wisdom or Greed?’“. For the […]

Review: A lifetime of studying the three great monotheistic faiths

Jack Miles July 24, 2019 Facebook Twitter Email WN: Sounds utterly fascinating! My Orthodox son reminds me that Christianity did not begin as opposition to other spiritualities, rather as their fulfilment. Christopher Marshall in “Paul and Social Responsibility” writes: Stanley Hauerwas has suggested [‘The Moral Authority of Scripture: the Politics and Ethics of Remembering’, Interpretation […]

Editorial: The politics of division stripped of any disguise

Jul 18, 2019 by NCR Editorial Staff photo above: The White House is seen in Washington July 12. (CNS/Tyler Orsburn)  WN: This is so well stated, it bears quoting in full. Opinion The stock market indexes keep pushing through the ceiling. Your portfolio looks better than it has in years. The jobless rate recently hit […]

American Carnage: a masterful must-read on Trump’s Republican takeover

Tim Alberta of Politico has written a compelling, alarming and scoop-heavy history of the fall of the party of Lincoln Lloyd Green Sat 13 Jul 2019 photo above: Mike Pence and Paul Ryan applaud as Donald Trump delivers his first address to Congress in February 2017. Photograph: Jim Lo Scalzo/Pool/EPA WN: Trump is beyond vile, […]

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 Klassen is an esteemed member of the CoSA Canada Board, and past National Restorative Justice Coordinator for the Mennonite Central Committee Canada. That position and others were sadly eliminated due to financial restructuring at MCCC […]

Good Riddance to Cultural Christianity

Good Riddance to Cultural Christianity April 19, 2019| nones, Religious Right, voluntary association photo above: Pat Robertson speaks at the Road to Victory event at the Christian Coalition Conference September 19, 1998 in Washington, DC (Richard Ellis / Alamy Stock Photo). WN: Of course, “cultural Christianity” is ever part of Christian expression in all eras, […]

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 to let corporation avoid bribery prosecution, she says. By Tyee Staff February 27, 2019 | TheTyee.ca photo above:Jody Wilson-Raybould: ‘I come from a long line of matriarchs and I am a truth teller in accordance with the […]

Why World Peace Is Possible

WN: Below is an outstanding talk by a highly unusual young man!: Paul K. Chappell. Well worth the lesson – and checking out the website too.

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 the quiz to see how your fact-checking skills stack up against others nationwide. Reporting by Glenn Kessler and Scott Clement Graphics by Kevin Schaul Analysis and fact-checking by Emily Guskin, Meg Kelly and Salvador Rizzo […]

Bush the Archvillain

Bush the Archvillain By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout Published December 4, 2018 photo above: President George H.W. Bush speaks during his unsuccessful bid for re-election for the presidency, October 29, 1992.Wally McNamee / Corbis via Getty Images WN: My commentary from the previous post is fitting again: Of course any lineup of contemporary former Presidents […]

Georgetown Prep President: Working for Hope in a Season of Contempt

Georgetown Prep President: Working for Hope in a Season of Contempt Politics & Society Short Take James Van Dyke, S.J. October 03, 2018 photo above: Georgetown Preparatory School WN: This strikes as significantly sane and hopeful. By virtue of living in the wealthy West with a white male middle class pedigree, I am “privileged”. I […]

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 at the bottom of all website pages. WN: I’m pleased to add this page about three books produced fall 2018. They are of my writings on Restorative Justice over the years, including (in Volume One) […]

Obama’s Imperial Presidency

September 14, 2018 by Carl Boggs photo above: The U.S. Army | CC BY 2.0 WN: It is astounding that Obama (no less Hillary Clinton) was through and through a warmonger on a grand scale exceeding both Bushes, and far more so far than Trump. This is laid out in the article below. Obama is […]

Trump’s Pantheistic Temptation

February 06, 2017 by Vern Redekop WN: Anything my friend and scholar Vern Redekop writes — and he is prolific! — is invariably thoughtful/thought-provoking. To understand a greater context for his article copied in full below, please see: René Girard. Vern is a noted Girardian scholar. ********** In the book, René Girard and Creative Mimesis, […]

Why the Vatican continues to struggle with sex abuse scandals

by Chico Harlan August 12 at 6:53 PM Email the author photo above: Members of Chile’s bishops conference, Luis Fernando Ramos Perez and Juan Ignacio Gonzalez, give a news conference at the Vatican in May. (LUCA PRIZIA/AFP/Getty Images) WN: Pope Francis by all accounts is faltering on this, rather than robustly pursuing justice in all […]

Pope revises catechism to say death penalty is ‘inadmissible’

Commits the church to working toward its abolition worldwide1 Aug 2, 2018 by Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service Theology   photo above: Pope Francis gestures before speaking about the death penalty at an event marking the 25th anniversary of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, at the Vatican in this Oct. 11, 2017, file photo. […]

HERE’S WHAT RUSSIA `HAS’ ON TRUMP

  Reader’s Editorials Donald Trump Vladimir Putin Russia WN: The article highlighted below does not surprise… It is also no surprise that such information rolls off supporters’ backs like water off a duck’s…1 Mother Jones published recently “The Very Strange Case of Two Russian Gun Lovers, the NRA, and Donald Trump“, that tells a very […]

The Last Real Evangelical: Evangelist Billy Graham

Feb 23, 2018 photo above: Evangelist Billy Graham speaks in Dallas at the 1974 Southern Baptist Convention. (AP) by Mel White / MelWhite.org1 WN: On the day of Billy Graham’s death (February 21, 2018), I posted a critical commentary on Graham. Today I post a positive reflection by Mel White, who counted Graham as a […]

Meet a True Story

Plough Quarterly magazine 15: Staying Human Feature by Michael T. McRay Technology feeds our insatiable hunger for stories, but fails to satisfy our need for human connection. A boom in live storytelling could be changing that. excerpts: When I moved to Ireland for graduate school in 2012, Pádraig Ó Tuama, a leader of the Corrymeela […]

Francis’ commitment to abuse survivors in question

Jan 23, 2018 by NCR Editorial Staff Accountability Opinion photo above: Pope Francis listens to a question from a journalist aboard his flight from Lima, Peru, to Rome Jan. 21. (CNS/Paul Haring) WN: This is a blunt and powerful Editorial. One wonders: What is it about (especially?) men in power that blinds us about getting […]

N.T. Wright: Working on a building

Institutions are essential to the church’s mission, but they are not reality, Wright says. They are merely the scaffolding and plumbing that make possible the building called community. Monday, October 25, 2010 an excerpt: Q: What does your understanding of Jesus’ bodily resurrection mean for how we treat people along those lines of justice and […]

Utilizing Indigenous Thought to Cope in the Age of Trump

Sunday, November 26, 2017 By Four Arrows, Truthout | Op-Ed photo above: aljazeera.com WN: Below is a wise, challenging, hopeful piece. As I read it, I reflected on how similar it is to The Great Tradition within the Judaeo-Christian Story, and beyond. Today’s reading on this is copied below: An excerpt from Laurence Freeman OSB, “Reverence,” […]

As Trump Carves Path of Destruction, Nader Asks Obama: Where Are You?

While list of programs and rules under attack grows, a call for former president to fight back against “Trump-led assault on our weakening democracy” Tuesday, October 10, 2017 by Common Dreams  by Jake Johnson, staff writer photo above: President Obama and president-elect Trump in the Oval office on November 10, 2016. Picture: Pablo Martinez Monsivais/APSource:News Corp […]

The Fundamentalists Holding Us Back from a Climate Change Solution

The evangelical Christian movement has been at war with environmentalism for decades—but the stakes have never been higher. By ALLIE CONTI illustrated by LIA KANTROWITZ Aug 20 2017, 7:15pm WN: It is truly tragic to see US politics swayed by a minority of religious climate change deniers – out of all proportion to their numbers. […]

Christianity Does Not Justify Trump’s ‘Fire and Fury’

Steven Paulikas THE STONE AUG. 14, 2017 photo above: Jeff Swensen for The New York Times excerpts: Jeffress told The Post, “God has endowed rulers full power to use whatever means necessary — including war — to stop evil.” I argue that recent history has already demonstrated that the invocation of evil in political rhetoric leads […]

Why Trump Could Be Gone Before 2020

AUGUST 18, 2017 by PAUL STREET excerpts: Increasingly, though, one really must wonder if the arch-authoritarian racist idiot Donald Trump will make it to 2020. The supreme madness and evil of the rolling atrocity that is the Insane Clown Trump presidency has just now reached a new level of bizarre and scary-weird ruling-class dysfunction. Just last […]

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 for a nonviolent atonement. WN: My paper1 specifically argues for a restorative justice view in contradistinction to the the retributive view of justice as described below, one that flows out of a violent atonement theory. […]

Tomgram: Dilip Hiro, Two Impulsive Leaders Fan the Global Flames

Posted by Dilip Hiro at 6:51am, July 6, 2017. Follow TomDispatch on Twitter @TomDispatch. image above: Winning entry of this year’s International Trumpism Cartoon and Caricature Contest in Tehran. WN: The article highlighted below shows two impulsive leaders, Trump and Saudi Prince Muhammad bin Salman, to be hell-bent on fanning the flames of the Middle East, and thereby […]

We Are the 99 Percent—Except for the Top 20 Percent of Us

 In a new book Dream Hoarders, Richard V. Reeves argues that members of the upper middle class, not just the ultra-wealthy, are making our society profoundly unequal. By Bryce Covert JULY 3, 2017 WN: What the author calls for in the article highlighted below is what biblical Jubilee Justice repeatedly heralds: that for everyone “enough should be […]

Obama: a Hollow Man Filled With Ruling Class Ideas

Obama: a Hollow Man Filled With Ruling Class Ideas JUNE 2, 2017 by PAUL STREET WN: The review below of the recent massive biography of Barack Obama is scathing with reference to Obama’s supreme narcissism (matching Trump’s one could argue, though not in constant bombast). Paul Street powerfully demonstrates how Obama, in a long line […]

The US tried to derail climate action before – and it ended in humiliating defeat

George W Bush failed in his attempt to block global action on climate change. His mistake – about to be repeated by Trump – was to imagine the UN process was weak Fiona Harvey Environment correspondent Thursday 1 June 2017 16.50 BSTLast modified on Friday 2 June 2017 00.36 BST photo above: A polar bear leaps over melting ice, Svalbard […]

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 WN: It was great having spent time at the Conference with Bruno van der Maat, Senior Professor, Director of Master Studies, Universidad Católica de Santa María Graduate School, Arequipa, Peru. He is a very gentle, thoughtful […]

Hermann Hesse and Thomas Merton: Countercultural Affinities

WN: This is a fascinating article that brings together Hermann Hesse and Thomas Merton, likely the two most countercultural influencers of the 20th century in the West. Of course both were responsive in their various ways to the supreme countercultural call in the West: Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s […]

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 theological and generally academic works, that I have appreciated. Compilation of this list began decades ago. I think most are still discoverable, the links current. It is copied below, and there is a link to […]

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 Ness, 1997). A great early overview of the wider context is The Expanding Prison (Cayley, 1998). The first major study was Changing Lenses (Zehr, 1990) – considered a classic. The two best Christian theological studies […]

Neoliberalism in the Driver’s Seat: Trump and Ryan’s Ruling-Class Schemes

Thursday, April 06, 2017By C.J. Polychroniou, Truthout | Interview photo above: House Speaker Paul Ryan looks on as President Donald Trump addresses a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, February 28, 2017. (Photo: Doug Mills / The New York Times) an excerpt: Donald Trump ran a campaign to “make America great again,” promising […]

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Dancing with Elephants: Mindfulness Training

Hello from Winnipeg! I couldn’t put it off any longer. The new self-help/memoir, Dancing with Elephants, is now available everywhere. You’ll find all the links you could possibly need below the blurb. Diagnosed with a disease that can’t be reversed? Learn how to keep living life to the fullest.   Have you received a terminal […]

Adam and the Genome: Reading Scripture after Genetic Science

by Dennis Venema / Scot McKnight • February 16, 2017 WN: Almost anyone raised fundamentalist or evangelical was fed on the almost total disconnect between science and the Bible, with the Bible, according to reigning wisdom, winning out. Sadly, a great number of those so raised who went on to study the biological sciences and similar fields […]

Empire’s Religion: Arundhati Roy Confronts the Tyranny of the Free Market

Published on Thursday, September 15, 2016 by Common Dreams by Jake Johnson photo above: ‘Whether she is writing of Kashmir or of the Palestinians, of American foreign policy or of terror in the Middle East, of environmental degradation or of the threat posed by nuclear proliferation, [author and activist Arundhati] Roy,’ writes Johnson,  ‘maintains a […]

How America became a 1% society | The Guardian

Since 1980, the economy has continued to grow impressively, but most of the benefits have migrated to the top. Bill Moyers asks why. Monday 12 September 2016 17.50 BST photo above: idiamonds.blogspot.com The article linked with excerpts below, is incredibly compelling, in the direction of what is ultimately paramount in living our lives: love of neighbour. […]

LeBron And Friends Opened The ESPYs With A Speech You Need To Hear

“The urgency to create change is at an all-time high.” 07/13/2016 09:04 pm ET Updated Jul 15, 2016 Read the text, and watch the video (linked below) of the four honoured athletes who articulately and straightforwardly call for all gun violence to end: in particular by police, and in retaliation for police killings of Blacks. […]

Grace Always Bats Last

Friday, July 15, 2016 by Abby Zimet, staff writer Another savage week, from St. Paul to Nice. Because we have no words left, we turn to Canada’s Choir! Choir! Choir!, an experiment in harmony and community that has pulled crowds of strangers together to pay tribute to Prince and David Bowie, and has raised money […]

The Foreign Consequences of Trump’s Racism

Published on June 18th, 2016 | by Guest by Paul R. Pillar an excerpt: Donald Trump is waging the most explicitly racist major U.S. presidential campaign since the third-party candidacy of segregationist George C. Wallace in 1968. The exploitation of bias based on ethnicity or religion has taken more subtle forms in other election campaigns […]

Finding your calling for the ‘third third’ of your life

by Paul Stevens • June 16, 2016 an excerpt: There is no question that we have a population bulge in the seniors group that, on the population charts, is like an awkwardly large animal going through the long neck of a snake. In the late Middle Ages those who survived to 20 could on average […]

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 one of the most popular phenomenons of our time would be on the side of this way of nonviolent love. I believed J. K. Rowling to be presenting us with the choice between Lord Voldemort’s […]

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 of novels, by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins,(1[ Published by Tyndale in twelve volumes, 1995-2004.]) is their re-sacralization of violence. Their version of Jesus is no longer the Lamb slain but the same beastly […]

“Pardon Me?!”

“Pardon Me?!” A one-time friend, Lloyd Billingsley, years ago confidently told me that “the left” by definition is ideological, “the right” by contrast normal/normative. Such in turn ideological blindness still gobsmacks me. Lloyd is an intelligent man but profoundly doctrinaire, and like a close acquaintance, Lloyd sadly is highly unloving – even hateful – towards […]

Is U.S. like Germany of the ’30s?

WN: I think this is a classic – by Andrew Greeley. An excerpt: He is not another Hitler. Yet there is a certain parallelism. They have in common a demagogic appeal to the worst side of a country’s heritage in a crisis. Bush is doubtless sincere in his vision of what is best for America. […]

Blessed Are the Warmakers?

WN: This is in my view an excellent piece by Christopher Manion – from 2003. An excerpt: Mr. Thomas, normally a sensible man writing from an evangelical Christian point of view, has just announced that the biblical “Time for War” is at hand. Invoking Woodrow Wilson, that most peaceable, honest, Christian creature, Thomas explains that […]

Three Quotes and Two Dictionary Entries

Three Quotes and Two Dictionary Entries 1. “In [a true fairy-story] when the sudden ‘turn’ [or ‘eucatastrophe’] comes we get a piercing glimpse of joy, and heart’s desire, that for a moment passes outside the frame, rends indeed the very web of story, and lets a gleam come through… The Birth of Christ is the […]

Homosexuality Question, October 23, 2004

WN: Dr. Willard Swartley is an outstanding New Testament exegete, whom I now consider a friend, after our meeting in 2006. I had this two-part question that did not receive an answer (not his fault) on the occasion of his presentation on the subject in Abbotsford BC in 2004. Homosexuality Question, October 23, 2004 Dr. […]

Statements About the Church

WN: I collected such for a while… They are all below: The church is hopeless, but it is the only hope. (African saying) The church is that great totalitarian beast with an irreducible kernel of truth. (Simone Weil, 20th century French mystic) The church is like Noah’s ark: you wouldn’t stand the stench within were […]

War, Police and Prisons: Cross-Examining State-Sanctioned Violence

War, Police and Prisons: Cross-Examining State-Sanctioned Violence Streams of Justice, September 28, 2009 WN: I was asked by the above-named Justice group to do this as part of a series. I never learn well to do such presentations to the right tailor length! You may also find interesting my discussion of WAR and HELL. An […]

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 ago, at a VOMA (Victim Offender Mediation Association) conference in Des Moines, Iowa, I saw a plaintive note on a bulletin board: DOES ANYONE KNOW OF ANY RESTORATIVE JUSTICE VIDEO RESOURCES THAT ARE NOT RELIGIOUS?! […]

Reflections on Capital Punishment

An excerpt: Christian support for capital punishment, like Christian participation in war, has known a majority Christendom approbation since the era of Constantine in the fourth century. This support has likewise dominated Western secular jurisdictions until the last century – a tragic Christian legacy of fear and vengeance! The church moved in the fourth century […]

Jesus, Evangelicals, and American Empire

image above: thenile.com.au WN: “Empire” by nature is gargantuan evil. There is none known to history that has not been such. Most American Evangelicals and conservative Roman Catholics amongst other religious instinctively oppose thinking the United States is precisely such an Empire. Billy Graham and a host of lesser religious routinely prayed for Empire victory […]

The Camel in the Anointment: Homosexuality and the Church

WN: I invite response. To be noted: two authors adduced below–Willard Swartley and Richard Hays–both support/ed a church ban on homosexuality. Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You give a tenth of your spices– mint, dill and cummin. But you have neglected the more important matters of the law– justice, […]

Emperor Bush, Pirate bin Laden, Calvin College, and the Gospel

image above: webpages.uidaho.edu WN: Evangelicals were in bed with former President George W. Bush like never before. They of course are out of sorts with President Obama. The Christian Left however hugely welcomed Obama, who has hardly since in any way (if ever) shown desert of the Nobel Peace Prize. The paper, written during the […]

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 whom I cited often, as it turns out, was present at the workshop… He has done a wonderful Lectionary of Readings from a Girardian perspective. An excerpt: In this presentation, I propose a very simple […]

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, with names changed or removed. The first part was a letter sent to two police officers; the second part an attached reflection. They never responded. They were also never heard from again in relation to […]

Christianity and the Subversion of Just About Everything!

April 16, 2017 WN: This essay was initially written in the 1980’s while I was preparing a sermon on Romans 13. My “aha” moment is that described in the excerpt below. I’ve never seen this elsewhere in biblical scholarship. Someday a New Testament scholar may tell me it really is not good exegesis. But until […]

Holding Forth . . .

. . . or fifth . . . or sixth . . .     Below is a smattering of sermons preached and presentations made over the years. Langley Mennonite Fellowship (our home Church) began a series called, God: Then & Now; Always & Eternal. The classic image used is Trinity (Троицa, romanized: Troitsa)  by 15th-century […]

Christian Anarchy

Jesus’ Primacy over the Powers, Vernard Eller, Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1987. Jacques Ellul first introduced me to this theme after I had been raised in the faith for over 25 years. Strange to say that, when the Bible begins with the theme in Genesis One! (See my book review of The Lost World of Genesis […]

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, Michael Hadley, by Pierre Allard and Wayne Northey; New York: SUNY Press, 2001. In August 1998, all contributors to the above book project converged on Sorrento Centre for a week. The book project and […]

Is There A Place For Dreaming?

WN: The title was of a wonderful song by singer/songwriter, Ken Medema, from his album, “In the Dragon’s Jaws” (no date), that I played at the end of the presentation. The occasion?: The end of a six-month sabbatical (April to September 2007) wherein I was the first (guinea pig!) “Scholar-In-Residence” at the above university in […]

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: 43 years after its US counterpart had been founded. It was a privilege to have been part of the “story-telling” on that occasion. (If the notice is kept on the website, see: MCCC 50th Anniversary.) […]

Restorative Reintegration

Sixth International Conference on Restorative Justice, “Best Practices in Restorative Justice”, June 1, 2003 photo above: reintegrationaustralia.com.au An excerpt: For over 25 years, the terminology of “Restorative Justice” has had increasingly wider acceptance and resonance within criminal justice jurisdictions around the world. As has come widely to be acknowledged, Restorative Justice is more than an […]

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, at a VOMA (Victim Offender Mediation Association) conference in Des Moines, Iowa, I saw a plaintive note on a bulletin board: DOES ANYONE KNOW OF ANY RESTORATIVE JUSTICE VIDEO RESOURCES THAT ARE NOT RELIGIOUS?! Restorative […]

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 its worldwide expansion. In particular Howard Zehr’s name stands out in the earlier and subsequent years; but not as theory originator, or first practitioner. From a Canadian vantage point, Dr. Herman Bianchi, a Dutch criminologist, […]

The Death Penalty

An Historical and Theological Survey, James J. Megivern, New York/Mahwah, N. J.: Paulist Press 1997, 641 pages. An excerpt: “In this important study, James Megivern offers readers a comprehensive history of the death penalty in the West. He explores the development of the death penalty chronologically through the early, medieval and modern periods while also […]

Restorative Justice

  NOTE: Some of what follows is excerpted from Chapter One of Justice That Transforms: Volume 1 WN: From a Canadian vantage point, Dr. Herman Bianchi, a Dutch criminologist, is one of the three “grandfathers” (if one must use that term) chronologically of Restorative Justice, together with Mark Yantzi and Dave Worth, the first and longstanding […]