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… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 26 Oct 2016 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… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 12 Mar 2015 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.… Wayne Northey 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… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 21 Jun 2022 Reflections On: Opinion Doug Mastriano’s unhinged ‘Nazi’ claim signals deeper danger ahead By Greg Sargent, Columnist June 2, 2022 image above: thedispatch.com WN: The U.S. has become increasingly unhinged--thanks in significant part… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 11 Jun 2022 Interaction With: When the US Is Truly Run by These Fascists It Will Be Too Late Thom Hartmann June 8, 2022 image above: That single strongman Leader is the key to understanding everything else that happens… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 08 Jun 2022 Thoughts on: With the Buffalo massacre, white Christian nationalism strikes again Perspective by Samuel L. Perry Philip S. Gorski May 20, 2022 image above: Hundreds of white nationalists marched on the… Wayne Northey 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.… Wayne Northey No Comments
10 May 2022 Covenant of Peace The Missing Peace in New Testament Theology and Ethics, Willard M. Swartley, Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2006 WN: This is about… Wayne Northey 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… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 04 May 2022 Commentary on: Faith, Science, and Francis Collins By Dhruv Khullar April 7, 2022 photo above: Wikipedia--Francis Collins is the only Presidentially appointed N.I.H. (National Institutes of Health) director… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 17 Apr 2022 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… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 05 Apr 2022 Thrilling to: The Dissenters Trying to Save Evangelicalism From Itself By David Brooks Opinion Columnist Feb. 4, 2022 image above: Concept by Jason Sfetko, Illustration by Justin Metz WN: The article… Wayne Northey 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… Wayne Northey No Comments
23 Mar 2022 Apocalypse Now!: A Revaluation of the Thought of Ivan Illich Brother John, Taizé In his masterful and comprehensive study recently published by Penn State University Press, Ivan Illich: An Intellectual… Wayne Northey 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… Wayne Northey 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,… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 13 Feb 2022 Christian Pacifism and Its Cultured Naysayers ***NOTE: Many footnotes add detail and background to the text.*** WN: The Problem I have a good friend who loves… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 05 Feb 2022 A Look At: Despite Their Pastors Dying, Between 30-40% of American White Evangelical Christians Remain Anti-Vax February 4, 2022 WN: To understand some of this phenomenon, please see my Book Review of: Jesus and John Wayne:… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 04 Feb 2022 Tragic: Minnesota National Guard Activated as Unrest Grows Over Police ‘Execution’ of Black Man Pilar Melendez Justin Rohrlich Solomon Gustavo Updated Feb. 04, 2022 photo above: Minneapolis PD WN: Utterly predictable . . . Utterly… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 30 Dec 2021 Jesus Christ: The Unanswered Questions St Paul's Cathedral Rowan Williams says that how we understand Jesus Christ is central to how we understand everything, and… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 21 Dec 2021 How Awesome Is “Awesome”? by Andrew Bacevich December 21, 2021 photo above: taurusarmed.net WN: Of course war is a mockery of everything decent, no… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 05 Dec 2021 The Great Sumas Lake Heist: A Guilty Little Secret in Plain Sight NOTE: There are several footnotes that add related material to the article, that for some may be of interest. Story… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 25 Nov 2021 The Teacher Who Never Spoke By Maureen Swinger November 22, 2021 WN: So beautiful. So very humbling. So complicatedly hopeful. excerpts: he summer my brother… Wayne Northey 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… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 11 Nov 2021 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… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 09 Nov 2021 Announcement of “Hit CS Lewis biopic ‘The Most Reluctant Convert’ highlights author’s dramatic conversion” CP Entertainment | Monday, November 08, 2021 By Leah MarieAnn Klett, Christian Post Editor photo above: “The Most Reluctant Convert: The… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 09 Nov 2021 The Horror of: “ ‘It’s being abused by an entire belief system’: a haunting film on sexual abuse by Catholic clergy” David Smith in Washington; @smithinamerica Tue 9 Nov 2021 WN: The dreadfulness of ‘It’s being abused by an entire belief… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 04 Nov 2021 If we’d listened to Cardinal Bernardin, the Catholic Church would not be so divided today Steven P. Millies November 04, 2021 photo above: Cardinal Joseph Bernardin speaks with reporters on the steps of his Chicago… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 30 Oct 2021 Interaction With “Neuroscience’s Existential Crisis” By Grigori Guitchounts October 27, 2021 image above: A rendering of dendrites (red)—a neuron’s branching processes—and protruding spines that receive synaptic… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 28 Oct 2021 Concerning “Military vs Climate Spending: A Moral Catastrophe in Three Pictures” Richard Eskow October 28, 2021 photo above: Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 21 Oct 2021 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… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 20 Oct 2021 Legacy of Shame: October 19, 2021 by Kenn Orphan photo above: Photograph Source: Reagan White House Photographs – Public Domain WN: Saint Augustine… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 11 Oct 2021 A Handful of Reasons to Join a Church [despite the exodus] – Sharad Yadav posted in Clarion Journal for Religion, Peace & Justice by Sharad Yadav WN: I like what I read below! One… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 09 Oct 2021 Justice and Peace: Lumen Christi Institute Streamed live, October 7, 2021 image above: smp.org WN: The Catholic Criminal Justice Reform Network does excellent… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 01 Oct 2021 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;… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 28 Sep 2021 Engelhardt, A Hellfire World By Tom Engelhardt photo above: 'THEY ARE ALL DEAD': Harrowing leaked footage shows US drone strikes in Afghanistan as pilot… Wayne Northey 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… Wayne Northey 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… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 10 Aug 2021 ‘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… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 01 Aug 2021 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… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 24 Jul 2021 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… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 24 Jul 2021 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… Wayne Northey 2 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… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 18 Jul 2021 Republicans were happy to support vaccine when they could credit Trump, then went on the attack By Community last July 17, 2021 image above: cagle.com WN: "Guns and Bibles" (see below)--but nary a drop of authentic… Wayne Northey 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… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 08 Jul 2021 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.… Wayne Northey 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… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 13 Jun 2021 The Wisdom of Trauma WN: The video is beautifully presented and wonderfully hopeful! Dr. Gabor Maté is an amazingly wise and compassionate healer. TAKE… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 12 Jun 2021 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… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 12 Jun 2021 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… Wayne Northey 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… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 19 May 2021 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… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 12 May 2021 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),… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 01 May 2021 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… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 29 Apr 2021 Empire Politician: The new president’s paper trail reveals a man who has often betrayed his own bedrock principles. Jeremy Scahill April 28… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 27 Apr 2021 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… Wayne Northey 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… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 30 Mar 2021 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… Wayne Northey 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… Wayne Northey 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… Wayne Northey 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… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 26 Feb 2021 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… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 26 Feb 2021 Technology of Death: March 26, 2020 by Ramzy Baroud photo above: Sgt. Paul L. Anstine III, U.S. Marine Corps – Public Domain WN:… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 21 Feb 2021 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… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 18 Feb 2021 Neoliberalism – Financial meltdown, environmental disaster and even the rise of Donald Trump – neoliberalism has played its part in them all.… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 13 Feb 2021 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… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 10 Feb 2021 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… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 19 Dec 2020 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:… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 15 Nov 2020 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… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 14 Nov 2020 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… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 11 Nov 2020 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… Wayne Northey No Comments
03 Nov 2020 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… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 19 Aug 2020 ‘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… Wayne Northey 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… Wayne Northey 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… Wayne Northey 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.… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 02 Apr 2020 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… Wayne Northey 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,… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 23 Feb 2020 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… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 20 Feb 2020 “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… Wayne Northey 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… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 12 Oct 2019 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… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 01 Oct 2019 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… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 20 Sep 2019 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… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 26 Jul 2019 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… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 23 Jul 2019 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) … Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 15 Jul 2019 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… Wayne Northey 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… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 22 Apr 2019 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… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 12 Mar 2019 On Biblical Inerrancy: Some Reflections for United Methodists and Other “Christians” On Biblical Inerrancy: Some Reflections for United Methodists and Other “Christians” March 11, 2019 by M. G. Piety Image above: … Wayne Northey 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… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 06 Jan 2019 Why World Peace Is Possible WN: Below is an outstanding talk by a highly unusual young man!: Paul K. Chappell. Well worth the lesson -… Wayne Northey 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… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 15 Dec 2018 Bush the Archvillain Bush the Archvillain By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout Published December 4, 2018 photo above: President George H.W. Bush speaks during… Wayne Northey 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… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 03 Oct 2018 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.… Wayne Northey No Comments
24 Sep 2018 Justice That Transforms — Book Series First 3 Volumes Fall 2018; Volume One Republished January 2020 SEARCH and ARCHIVES options are at the bottom of all… Wayne Northey
Blog 15 Sep 2018 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… Wayne Northey 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!… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 22 Aug 2018 Donald Trump’s Fixer Says the President Engaged in a Criminal Conspiracy to Sway the 2016 Election That’s impeachable. By John Nichols Twitter August 22, 2018 10:40 am photo above: Michael Cohen leaves his federal court hearing in… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 13 Aug 2018 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… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 02 Aug 2018 Pope revises catechism to say death penalty is ‘inadmissible’ Commits the church to working toward its abolition worldwide((There is clearly moral ambiguity on this issue. I greatly appreciate this… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 25 Jul 2018 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… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog Attendees came from 18 different nations. 25 Jun 2018 Rwanda Dispatches May 18 to July 12, 2018 WN: The idea of “Rwanda Dispatches” came from my friend Flyn Ritchie, editor of the online journal, Church for Vancouver,… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 12 Mar 2018 Billy Graham & The Cold War Before the Culture War – White evangelical voters, Donald Trump, and the evolution of the religious right The Cold War before the culture war March 6, 2018 by Fred Clark WN: What emerges with great clarity in… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 24 Feb 2018 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… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 14 Feb 2018 Meet a True Story Plough Quarterly magazine 15: Staying Human Feature by Michael T. McRay Technology feeds our insatiable hunger for stories, but fails… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 24 Jan 2018 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… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 21 Jan 2018 Reconciliation illustration above: The rescue by (Anabaptist) Dirk Willems. Engraving by Jan Luiken in Martyrs Mirror, v. 2, p. 387 of… Wayne Northey No 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… Wayne Northey 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… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 12 Dec 2017 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… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 26 Nov 2017 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.… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 10 Oct 2017 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… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 25 Sep 2017 Acts of Faith Perspective Colin Kaepernick vs. Tim Tebow: A tale of two Christians on their knees By Michael Frost September 24 at 7:00 AM photo above: San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick kneels during the national anthem before… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 21 Aug 2017 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… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 19 Aug 2017 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,… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 19 Aug 2017 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… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 12 Aug 2017 How Fossil Fuel Money Made Climate Change Denial the Word of God Brendan O'Connor Tuesday 12:35pm Filed to: ANOINTED BY BIG OIL WN: The supreme haughty superiority of Christians who just know all… Wayne Northey 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… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 07 Jul 2017 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… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 05 Jul 2017 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… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 03 Jun 2017 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… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 01 Jun 2017 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… Wayne Northey 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… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 18 May 2017 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… Wayne Northey 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… Wayne Northey 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… Wayne Northey 2 Comments
Blog 10 Apr 2017 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… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog “We put God right at the center of the White House.” —Paula White, speaking at an Evangelicals for Trump event at Solid Solid Rock Church, Ohio, March 6, 2020 25 Mar 2017 Amazing Disgrace By Sarah Posner Illustration above by Brian Reedy. Think of the illustration in conjunction with this hugely ironic quote, one… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 07 Mar 2017 ** OUT NOW ** 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.… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 16 Feb 2017 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… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 06 Nov 2016 EXCLUSIVE: Top Trump Aides’ Deeper & Linked Roles in Putin Agenda Revealed; Russian Mafia Nexus With Trump & Aides Goes Back Years Published on November 4, 2016 by Brian Frydenborg New threads in the Team Trump/Team Putin tangled web show Manafort and… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 15 Sep 2016 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… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 13 Sep 2016 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… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 03 Sep 2016 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… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 17 Jul 2016 Grace Always Bats Last Friday, July 15, 2016 by Abby Zimet, staff writer Another savage week, from St. Paul to Nice. Because we have… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 18 Jun 2016 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… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 16 Jun 2016 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… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 09 Jun 2016 “We Can Control Him”: How Conservatives Underestimate Trump and How Progressives Could Stop Him Thursday, 09 June 2016 00:00 By Charles Derber and Yale Magrass, Truthout | Op-Ed photo above: Reading from a teleprompter,… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 06 Jun 2016 Opposing Mass Incarceration Is “Trendy,” but Can We Stop the Train of Piecemeal Reform? Friday, 03 June 2016 00:00 By James Kilgore, Truthout | Op-Ed photo above: Image: Wayne Northey No Comments
