Blog 20 Mar 2015 Scapegoating The Sex Offender WN: This was written 16 years ago, but is ever pertinent. An excerpt: Can one hope that some Canadian communities… Editor No Comments
Blog Attendees came from 18 different nations. 08 Apr 2024 Rwanda Dispatches May 18 to July 12, 2018 At 30 years on to this day, April 7, 2024, the Rwanda Genocide broke out, that saw more than 1… Editor No Comments
05 Jan 2024 Interactive, Partial Book Review of: The Joy of Being Wrong: Original Sin Through Easter Eyes Interactive, Partial Book Review of: The Joy of Being Wrong: Original Sin Through Easter Eyes, James Alison, New York: Crossroad… Editor No Comments
Blog 05 Jan 2024 Interactive, Partial Book Review of: The Joy of Being Wrong: Interactive, Partial Book Review of: The Joy of Being Wrong: Original Sin Through Easter Eyes, James Alison, New York: Crossroad… Editor No Comments
Blog 10 Oct 2023 Theories on the Psychology of Violence WN: I met the author of the presentation below at a COV&R (Colloquium on Violence and Religion) Conference.I recall a… Editor No Comments
Blog 13 Nov 2022 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… Editor No Comments
Blog 30 Jul 2022 Pope Francis says Catholic Church committed cultural ‘genocide’ of Canada’s Indigenous peoples Jul 30, 2022 by Christopher White Christopher White is the Vatican correspondent for NCR. His email address is [email protected]. Follow him… Editor No Comments
Blog 01 Jul 2022 Why I Oppose the Death Penalty WN: I was invited to dialogue with Dr. Richard Land of (later) “The Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission” of the… Editor No Comments
Blog 09 May 2022 The Mumbai Bombs, July 2006 July 12, 2006 Dear Editor: Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Peter MacKay predictably was the pot that called the kettle… Editor No Comments
Blog 22 Mar 2022 Circles of Support and Accountability Needless to say, I believe in Restorative Justice and CoSA! Editor No Comments
Blog 15 Mar 2022 What Goes Around . . .: Big Oil and Gas Kept a Dirty Secret for Decades. Now They May Pay the Price. Chris McGreal Wed 30 Jun 2021 photo above: Loïc Manegarium Communities are now demanding the oil conglomerates pay damages and… Editor No Comments
Blog 07 Mar 2022 Restorative Justice and Spiritual Origins, November 19, 2004 WN: Some of the papers on Restorative Justice are understandably repetitive, though I culling the obviously such. image above: sikhnet.com… Editor No Comments
Blog Anti-riot police give signal to be ready. Government power concept. Police in action. Smoke on a dark background with lights. Blue red flashing sirens. Dictatorship power. Selective focus 06 Mar 2022 Is Violence Master of Us All?: Fight, Flight or Just Peacemaking WN: The host was the affable lawyer Gerry Palmer, quite well-known in Abbotsford for his work with numerous non-profit organizations,… Editor No Comments
Blog 16 Nov 2021 Paper and Story: “The Sex Offender as Scapegoat” John 12:20 - 33; John 11:49-52: 49But one of them, named Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to… Editor No Comments
Blog 09 Sep 2021 States of Incarceration by Emily Widra and Tiana Herring Tweet this September 2021 WN: My strongest statement about the horrors of worldwide incarceration… Editor No Comments
Blog 05 Sep 2021 9/11 was a test: Essay by Carlos Lozada Illustration above: by Patrik Svensson Sept. 3, 2021 WN: Below are excerpts from an outstanding essay… Editor No Comments
Blog 13 Jul 2021 This entire country is haunted By Alicia Elliott July 12, 2021 photo above: The Mohawk Institute Residential School, referred to by former students as ‘the… Editor No Comments
Blog 12 Jul 2021 Signs of a Need to Hate By Community last July 11, 2021 image above: Editor No Comments
Blog 08 Jul 2021 The war inside the Canadian Armed Forces By Marie-Danielle Smith July 8, 2021 illustration above: by Anna Minzhulina WN: Military. Police. Prisons.((See here also.)) All are rife… Editor No Comments
Blog 30 Jun 2021 Inside the Capitol Riot: An Exclusive Video Investigation By The New York Times June 30, 2021 WN: While video images can be selectively strung together, they are real… Editor No Comments
Blog 29 May 2021 Opinion: It’s ‘The Code’ of the NHL, and it has no cure for stupid Opinion by Ken Dryden May 27, 2021 photo above: Toronto center John Tavares is taken from the ice on a… Editor No Comments
Blog 27 May 2021 René Girard, Conversion, and the Present Media Moment WN: This is immensely helpful in this historical moment. Lumen Christi Institute René Girard, Conversion, and the Present Media Moment… Editor No Comments
Blog 26 Mar 2021 Restorative Justice: Peacemaking Not Warmaking; Transformative Justice: Penal Abolitionism Not Prison Reform by Wayne Northey for The Kenarchy Journal, Volume 2. image above: cccu.org PLEASE NOTE: Below are excerpts of my paper… Editor No Comments
Blog 26 Mar 2021 America Must Understand How Bad Trump Truly Was in Order to See What’s Coming By Jake Jackson March 24, 2021 image source: Blog for Arizona WN: The situation in the U.S. continues to be… Editor 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… Editor No Comments
Blog BAYONNE, NJ - MAY 3: A wind blown American flag at the Tear Drop 9/11 Memorial flies over the skyline of New York City as the sun sets on May 3, 2020 in Bayonne, New Jersey. (Photo by Gary Hershorn/Getty Images) 16 Aug 2020 The Unraveling of America by Wade Davis August 6, 2020 Wade Davis holds the Leadership Chair in Cultures and Ecosystems at Risk at the… Editor No Comments
Blog 13 Aug 2020 RJWorld eConference, August 22 – 31, 2020: Robbie Robidoux & Wayne Northey RJWorld eConference, August 22 – September 6, 2020: Robbie Robidoux & Wayne Northey RJ World 2020 was a 17-day (extended… Editor No Comments
Blog 12 Apr 2020 He Could Have Seen What Was Coming: Behind Trump’s Failure on the Virus He Could Have Seen What Was Coming: Behind Trump’s Failure on the Virus by Eric Lipton, David E. Sanger, Maggie… Editor No Comments
Blog 10 Jul 2019 ‘You’re excluding people that look like me’: Megan Rapinoe’s message to Trump US soccer captain again rejects White House visit, saying team does not want to be ‘corrupted’ Sarah Marsh Wed 10… Editor No Comments
Blog 17 Mar 2019 Christchurch, the White Victim Complex and Savage Capitalism Christchurch, the White Victim Complex and Savage Capitalism March 15, 2019 by Ben Debney drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair WN:… Editor No Comments
Blog 28 Feb 2019 On the Record: Jody Wilson-Raybould’s Devastating Testimony on the SNC-Lavalin Scandal On the Record: Jody Wilson-Raybould’s Devastating Testimony on the SNC-Lavalin Scandal Trudeau tried to pressure justice minister to cut deal… Editor No Comments
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… Editor
Blog 10 Sep 2018 Trump’s Pantheistic Temptation February 06, 2017 by Vern Redekop WN: Anything my friend and scholar Vern Redekop writes -- and he is prolific!… Editor No Comments
Blog 21 Feb 2018 Billy Graham and the Gospel of Fear February 21, 2018 byCecil Bothwell Photo above by Richard Bromley | CC BY 2.0 [NOTE: For a differing view with… Editor 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… Editor No Comments
Blog 16 Nov 2017 Hellrazed? — edited by Kevin Miller WN: Kevin Miller produced the movie Hellbound? five years ago to look at changing views on the doctrine of hell.… Editor No Comments
Blog 13 Apr 2017 Restorative Justice Then, Now and A Dream WN: A massive body of Restorative Justice literature has emerged. A superb early study is Restoring Justice (Strong and Van… Editor 2 Comments
Blog 09 Apr 2017 The Banality of War WN: Below is the first footnote of an essay for a possible chapter in an upcoming book slated for fall… Editor No Comments
Blog 08 Feb 2017 Trump Revives a Shameful Tradition: Targeting a Minority Group with Crime Reports February 8, 2017 What the author is describing is scapegoating, ubiquitous in human cultures and history. René Girard, recently deceased,… Editor No Comments
Blog 08 Jul 2016 Of Lethal Drones and Police Shootings Friday, 08 July 2016 00:00 By Kathy Kelly, Consortium News | Op-Ed photo above: Demonstrators record a crowd of police… Editor No Comments
Blog 06 Mar 2016 René Girard’s Theories Still Explain the Violence All Around Us WN: This is the CBC headline for airing the David Cayley five-part series on violence and its origins, the last… Editor No Comments
Blog 29 Mar 2015 The London Bombs, July 2005 By Wayne Northey July 9, 2005 Dear Editor: Prime Minister Tony Blair hypocritically called the London bombings “barbaric attacks.” On… Editor No Comments
Blog 29 Mar 2015 “Pardon Me?!” "Pardon Me?!" A one-time friend, Lloyd Billingsley, years ago confidently told me that “the left” by definition is ideological, “the… Editor No Comments
Blog 14 Mar 2015 Spirituality Evaluation of Restorative Justice Sixth International Conference on Restorative Justice, “Best Practices in Restorative Justice”, June 4, 2003 WN: I attended and presented at… Editor No Comments
Blog 14 Mar 2015 Restorative Justice and M2/W2 Ministry M2/W2 (Man-To-Man/Woman-To-Woman) is the Restorative Justice agency with which I was associated for forty years. An excerpt: A few years… Editor No Comments
Blog 13 Mar 2015 The Sports Crowd is Untruth WN: This was written in response to the Vancouver Stanley Cup riot in 2011. An excerpt: Søren Kierkegaard wrote “The… Editor No Comments
Blog 06 Mar 2015 Is Paul the Father of Misogyny and Antisemitism? WN: This paper highlighted below answers in the negative the question posed in the title. It was written by Pamela… Editor No Comments
28 Apr 2014 Bloomfield Avenue A Jewish-Catholic Jersey Girl’s Spiritual Journey, Linda Mercadante, Cambridge, Massachussets: Cowley Publications, 2006; 211 pages Linda was a friend from… Editor
10 Apr 2014 Against The Death Penalty Christian and Secular Arguments Against Capital Punishment, Gardner C. Hanks, Herald Press, 1997; 208 pages After this review was published… Editor
Blog 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… Editor No Comments
Blog 25 Feb 2014 René Girard and Violence WN: The paper below was (re)written just for my own joy in 1997, with subsequent rewrites. A version was prepared… Editor No Comments
Blog 25 Feb 2014 Spirituality Evaluation of Restorative Justice Sixth International Conference on Restorative Justice, “Best Practices in Restorative Justice”, June 4, 2003 An excerpt: A few years ago,… Editor No Comments
