Blog 12 May 2022 Silent Genocide By Robert C. Koehler image above: An example of the damage done by depleted uranium shells on armour plating. WN:… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 10 May 2022 We Have Met the Enemy and He Is Us talk by Jim Forest An excerpt: In the dawn of time, back in the fifties, my favorite comic strip concerned… Wayne Northey No Comments
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Blog 10 May 2022 Devotional – M2/W2 Staff-Board Retreat, June 12, 1999 WN: In 1998, I became Executive Director of M2/W2, a Restorative Justice/Prison Visitation program. I held that position until retirement… Wayne Northey 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… 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 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 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 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
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Blog 22 Mar 2022 End Abuse Programs WN: Esther, my partner, and I have been hugely privileged to have been connected to the End Abuse Programs for… Wayne Northey 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… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 15 Mar 2022 Reflection on: John Mearsheimer on why the West is principally responsible for the Ukrainian crisis Mar 11th 2022 by John J. Mearsheimer image above: Dan Williams WN: I recently sent out to several people an… 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 26 Feb 2022 Liz Theoharis, The Rise of White Christian Nationalism: Which Way America? By Liz Theoharis Liz Theoharis, a TomDispatch regular, is a theologian, ordained minister, and anti-poverty activist. Co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign: A… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 25 Feb 2022 Spotlight on: Putin’s spiritual destiny Giles Fraser is a journalist, broadcaster and Rector at the south London church of St Mary’s, Newington image above: ft.com… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 21 Feb 2022 Ominous: A Convoy Revved by Foreign Actors Spreading Lies Andrew Nikiforuk Today | TheTyee.ca Tyee contributing editor Andrew Nikiforuk is an award-winning journalist whose books and articles focus on epidemics, the… 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 12 Feb 2022 When the Rage Came for Me By Stephen Marche About the author: Stephen Marche is the author of The Next Civil War. February 12, 2022 photo… 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 Canada’s Anti-Vax Answer to Jan. 6 Is an Indefinite Blockade of Ottawa Justin Ling Jan. 30, 2022 photo above: © Provided by CBC Kids News WN: In two words: How stupid! excerpts:… 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 04 Feb 2022 The making of THE BIG LIE myth By Emma Brown, Aaron C. Davis, Jon Swaine and Josh Dawsey May 9, 2021 photo above: A Dominion Voting Systems voting… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 01 Feb 2022 Highlight: The lesson for bishops from Benedict report: Apologize, apologize, apologize by Thomas Reese Accountability Opinion Vatican photo above: Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI sits in St. Peter's Basilica on Dec. 8,… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 31 Jan 2022 The Jan. 6 Committee Members Are Patriots Making Sure Treason is Fully Documented Eleanor Clift Jan. 26, 2022 photo above: cbsnews.com WN: We'll wait and see . . . excerpts: The Jan. 6… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 29 Jan 2022 Marshall McLuhan, the Catholic thinker who predicted the internet, spent his last days praying with a Jesuit Nick Ripatrazone January 28, 2022 photo above: Marshall McLuhan at New York University's Loeb Center, June 14, 1966 (AP Photo/John… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 28 Jan 2022 How the Capitol attacks helped spread Christian nationalism in the extreme right By Jack Jenkins January 26, 2022 photo above: Right-wing podcaster Nick Fuentes, center, speaks to Trump supporters during a march… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog Supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump clash with police officers in front of the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, U.S., January 6, 2021. REUTERS/Leah Millis 23 Jan 2022 Reflections on: The American polity is cracked, and might collapse. Canada must prepare Thomas Homer-Dixon Special to The Globe and Mail Published December 31, 2021; Updated January 2, 2022 photo above: cbsnews.com WN:… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 22 Jan 2022 This California Dairy Farm’s Secret Ingredient for Clean Electricity: Cow Poop Kaya Laterman Updated Jan. 22, 2022 photo above: lakeberryessanews.com WN: As the writer indicates: Talk about milking a cow for all… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 19 Jan 2022 100+ Ultra-Rich People Warn Fellow Elites: ‘It’s Taxes or Pitchforks’ Jake Johnson January 19, 2022 photo above: ( Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 17 Jan 2022 Words that Got Martin Luther King, Jr. Shot By Martin Luther King, Jr. January 17, 2022 photo above: Dick DeMarsico from Wikimedia Commons (public domain) WN: Saturday, January… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 15 Jan 2022 Surveillance will follow us into ‘the metaverse,’ and our bodies could be its new data source By Tatum Hunter January 13, 2022 image above: (iStock/Washington Post Illustration) WN: The privacy encroachments are not unlike the proverbial… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 12 Jan 2022 Read NPR’s full interview with former President Donald Trump January 12, 2022 photo above: Former President Donald Trump spoke with NPR's Steve Inskeep in a brief phone interview. WN:… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 08 Jan 2022 Misinformation from the U.S. is the next virus—and it’s spreading fast By Stephen Maher January 3, 2022 image above: ca.news.yahoo.com WN: This great misinformation virus/viral tragedy is not simply a case… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 01 Jan 2022 Elizaveta Pilenko-Skobcova (Mother Maria) (1891 – 1945) WN: Such stories as highlighted below are immensely inspiring! I have relatives though who insist, in kind not unlike Trump… 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 28 Dec 2021 The 10 Worst Americans of 2021 Jon Schwarz December 24 2021 image above: watchmojo.com WN: And the Game-Changing Wisdom humanity learned for the first time ever,… 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 15 Dec 2021 How One Country Stopped COVID Dead in Its Tracks December 15, 2021 by David Axe photo above: news24online.com WN: The article highlighted below stands to reason… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 12 Dec 2021 Mary’s Song By Victoria Reynolds Farmer December 10, 2021 WN: The entire article is deeply moving. excerpts: ail Mary, full of grace… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 12 Dec 2021 “Our Lady of Everyday Life”: La Virgen de Guadalupe and the Religious Lives of Mexican Catholic Women December 12, 2019 by Melissa Borja photo above: Photo credit: Roberto Castañeda, Jr. WN: There is something beautifully compelling in… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 11 Dec 2021 What the New Right Sees Dec. 11, 2021 By Ross Douthat Opinion Columnist photo above: Amazon.com WN: The author make a compelling case. excerpts: The… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 09 Dec 2021 Introducing THE ANÁSTISIS CENTER FOR CHRISTIAN EDUCATION & MINISTRY photo above: On the ceiling of Chora Church in Istanbul, Turkey, is this fresco, called Anástasis in Greek. It portrays… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 08 Dec 2021 Omicron’s Explosive Growth Is a Warning Sign December 8, 2021 By Sarah Zhang photo above: health.onlineium.com WN: We must pay close attention is the clear message of… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 07 Dec 2021 Were Moderna & Pfizer’s HEK-293 Tests Immoral? December 7, 2021 Fr. Matthew P. Schneider, LC Priest, Religious, Moral Theologian, Autistic, Writer, Social Media Guru, etc. WN: This… 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 03 Dec 2021 God in a Cave By G. K. Chesterton December 23, 2020 WN: Wow! Beautifully stated. Such is God . . . excerpts: he old… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 30 Nov 2021 The Culture Wars: Plato, Shakespeare, Hesse, Eliot WN: My good friend Ron Dart sent me this lecture on the Culture Wars. It's enlightening. There are many more… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 30 Nov 2021 Sing, Choirs of Angels By Sr. Carino Hodder, OP December 9, 2020 WN: Quite lovely. Quite heartening. excerpts: “O, little town of Bethlehem,” said… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 30 Nov 2021 Vandana Shiva: The Great Seed Piracy June 21, 2016 Vandana Shiva Environment photo above: Source: The Asian Age WN: The account of the article highlighted below… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 28 Nov 2021 Into This Demented Inn Into This Demented Inn --Thomas Merton Into this world, this demented inn, in which there is absolutely no room for… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 25 Nov 2021 Commentary on: “The Invention of Thanksgiving” By Philip Deloria November 18, 2019 image above: The Indians who joined the mistrustful Pilgrims, Wampanoag tradition suggests, were honoring… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 25 Nov 2021 What is “Evangelical” Theology? November 4, 2019 by Scot McKnight WN: In my book review of Kristin Kobes du Mez' outstanding Jesus and John… 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 24 Nov 2021 All the Lawyers Who Stood Between Ahmaud Arbery and Justice Pilar Melendez November 24, 2021 photo above: groyourwealth.com WN: An enormous tragedy . . . A muted victory . .… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 23 Nov 2021 Learning to Love Recklessly Dorothy Day Whenever I groan within myself and think how hard it is to keep writing about love in these… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 17 Nov 2021 New Revelations Emerge on How Donald Trump Killed 400,000 (or More) Americans David Corn Washington, DC, Bureau Chief, Bio | Follow photo above: President Donald Trump at a coronavirus task force briefing at… Wayne Northey No Comments
Food 16 Nov 2021 Announcing: “First Nations Version An Indigenous Translation of the New Testament” WN: The Lord's Prayer in this version is beautiful! Please view its reading below. A few sample passages follow the… 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 15 Nov 2021 Thoughts on: “White People Explain Racism to Me” By Elie Mystal Twitter November 15, 2021 photo above: (Fizkes / Shutterstock) WN: We Whites, lacking the lifelong experiences described… 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 10 Nov 2021 Who Knew Being Silent With Monks Could Be So Liberating? Sarah Sands Nov. 10, 2021 photo above: Education Images WN: Beautifully written: the deafening joy of silence . . .… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 10 Nov 2021 Two Comedic Takes on Climate Change; One Challenging Renewables WN: The first two are funny, making generous use of a beautiful smiling face and the word f**k and related.… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 09 Nov 2021 Jordan Peterson: Sic et Non WN: Ron has been a longstanding friend--over many decades. I've been privileged to work with him on writing projects; read… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 09 Nov 2021 Passages to New Life Now & Then Podcast In this week's episode of Henri Nouwen, Now & Then, author and artist Carol A. Berry reveals how Vincent… 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 09 Nov 2021 Wisdom: “Thoughts on Freedom” Life; Thanksgiving and Gratitude; Theology November 9, 2021 WN: The last lines of the meditation below are beautiful: Let… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 08 Nov 2021 Consider: “U.S. Covid Deaths Get Even Redder” By David Leonhardt Nov. 8, 2021 photo above: Image by torstensimon from Pixabay WN: This remains consistent everywhere: vaccinations save… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 08 Nov 2021 Walter Wink & “The Myth of Redemptive Violence” November 8, 2021 by Robert Koehler WN: The author of the highlighted article below is right on. For background to… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog Slum zone in Caracas city, Venezuela capital 07 Nov 2021 The European Union makes a policy play in Venezuela. by Anthony Faiola with Claire Parker photo above: istockphoto.com WN: Just as the "free press" is that only for the… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 06 Nov 2021 Reflections on “Drone Strikes and Torture Will Cause Big Blowback” November 5, 2021 by Brian Cloughley photo above: AK Rockefeller – CC BY 2.0 WN: It is ominous to read… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 05 Nov 2021 Irrelevant Saints By Terence Sweeney November 1, 2021 WN: A great challenge to everyday sainthood. excerpts: hen I made my First Communion,… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 04 Nov 2021 Highlighting: ” ‘Our ecological crisis is fundamentally a moral one’: Catholic Climate Covenant’s new executive director hopes to inspire care for creation” Sarah Vincent November 4, 2021 photo above: Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash WN: Hope! excerpts: Pope Francis is not… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog Pope Francis and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas embrace during an audience at the Vatican Nov. 4, 2021. (CNS photo/Vatican Media) 04 Nov 2021 Pope Francis meets with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas Gerard O’Connell November 04, 2021 photo above: Pope Francis and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas embrace during an audience at the… 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 02 Nov 2021 Highlighting “Absolute Carbon Reduction Is an ‘Issue of Life and Death’ for Indigenous Peoples” By Amy Goodman Juan González, Democracy Now! Published November 2, 2021 photo above: Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 02 Nov 2021 Nearly a Third of Republicans Surveyed Are Ready to Support Violence By Matthew Rozsa, Salon Published November 2, 2021 photo above: aljazeera.com WN: Founder and CEO of PRRI, Robert Jones said:… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 01 Nov 2021 Focus on “I’m With Condoleezza Rice About White Guilt” By John McWhorter image above: Michael Morris WN: The writer makes a compelling case . . . excerpt: I… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 31 Oct 2021 Spotlight on “Why MAGA Social Media Is a Hacker’s Wet Dream” Adam Rawnsley, Senior Researcher; Shannon Vavra, National Security Reporter Oct. 31, 2021 image above: Optimized Hate WN: Fools rush in… 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 26 Oct 2021 Reflections on “God, Trump and the Closed-Door World of a Major Conservative Group” By Robert O'Harrow Jr. October 25, 2021 image above: Nick Ogonosky WN: There is a telling quote in the article… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 25 Oct 2021 Timothy Snyder: On Tyranny WN: The video below is highly disturbing. It is an interview with Yale historian Timothy Snyder, author of the widely… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 25 Oct 2021 Commentary: “As Sen. Joe Manchin’s Star Rose in West Virginia, the FBI and IRS Probed His Closest Allies” Daniel Boguslaw October 23 2021 photo by Dominik Vanyi on Unsplash WN: The story below is about unbridled greed. It… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 24 Oct 2021 Engagement With “Frances Haugen: ‘I never wanted to be a whistleblower. But lives were in danger’” Dan Milmo Global technology editor October 24, 2021 WN: Now this is wonderfully gracious theology from Frances Haugen: Because the… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 23 Oct 2021 Going “Inside the Effort to Create a ‘Christian Nationalist’ Internet” Jack Jenkins October 20, 2021 WN: What more is there to say? The subtitle of a book by Kristin Kobes… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 22 Oct 2021 Daily Wisdom Daily Wisdom There is this direct relationship between having nothing and having everything; between poverty of spirit, the first of… 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 21 Oct 2021 Mapping the Evangelical Mind By Abbie Storch October 20, 2021 WN: The review of Reading Evangelicals: How Christian Fiction Shaped a Culture and a… 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 17 Oct 2021 Responding to Persecution By Luma Simms October 11, 2021 WN: What a beautiful, compelling, encouraging story. excerpt: n 2007, my friend Ishraq was… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 17 Oct 2021 A cheap and efficient way to directly convert industrial CO₂ offgas into oxygen and solid carbon By Community last October 17, 2021 WN: Wow! Shout it from the housetops! excerpts: We can’t go on belching CO2… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 17 Oct 2021 Good Shepherd New York WN: In a Home Study Group, we have begun to study together a new book by Melissa Florer-Bixler: How to… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 14 Oct 2021 Comrade Ruskin By Eugene McCarraher August 26, 2019 photo above: John Ruskin in 1863 WN: This is a wonderful, encouraging article about… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 14 Oct 2021 What the Future May Hold for the Coronavirus and Us By Emily Anthes Oct. 12, 2021 image above: Bianca Bagnarelli WN: The article lays out well several scenarios. excerpt: The… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 13 Oct 2021 Opinion: This climate change contrarian gives us an important reminder about science in general Opinion by Mitch Daniels photo above: Steven Koonin, then under secretary for science at the U.S. Department of Energy, speaks… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 13 Oct 2021 The Hopkins doc vs. the vaccine consensus By MYAH WARD With help from Tyler Weyant 10/13/2021 photo above: witf.org WN: Openness to the science from all directions… 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 First, Impressive Vaccines for Covid. Next Up: The Flu. By Carl Zimmer Oct. 9, 2021 photo above: Large-scale mRNA manufacturing development at the headquarters of Translate Bio, an mRNA… 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 06 Oct 2021 Revelations of Divine Love WN: This arrived in my inbox today. So simple. So profound. So uplifting. Deeds are done which appear so evil… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 04 Oct 2021 On A letter from Hell By Robin Schumacher, Exclusive Columnist photo above: pxhere.com WN: It is interesting that the photo chosen for the article highlighted… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 01 Oct 2021 They Went to Bible College to Deepen Their Faith. Becca Andrews September 30, 2021 photo above: yelp.com WN: The article highlighted below begins with Megan Wohlers telling her story… 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 30 Sep 2021 Josh McDowell steps back from ministry after controversial remarks on black families By Michael Gryboski, Christian Post Reporter September 23, 2021 photo above: Josh McDowell speaks at Talbot Chapel at Biola University… 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 28 Sep 2021 Harvard cracks and a dam breaks By LORRAINE WOELLERT 09/28/2021 photo above: Harvard and Yale students took to the field during halftime of a 2019 NCAA… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 28 Sep 2021 Insuring Heaven or Hell on Earth? Peter Bosshard, Rev. Fletcher Harper September 28, 2021 photo above: psmag.com WN: As seen in the article: "We disagree." excerpts:… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 25 Sep 2021 Pastor Gives Christians Who Claim ‘Religious Exemption’ From Masks And Vaccines An Epic Bible Lesson Mike Walsh Sep. 23, 2021 photo above: Keith Marshall/Facebook WN: The Pastor below said he had to make private his… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 24 Sep 2021 Mapping America’s hospitalization and vaccination divide By Zach Levitt Zach Levitt is a graphics reporter focusing on cartography for The Washington Post. He previously worked at… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 24 Sep 2021 Alberta COVID party sends several people to hospital with virus by Darcy Ropchan and News Staff Posted Sep 23, 2021 7:23 am MDT WN: A relative from the same general… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 22 Sep 2021 Six Rules That Will Define Our Second Pandemic Winter By Katherine J. Wu, Ed Yong, and Sarah Zhang September 21, 2021 image above: Shannon Lin/The Atlantic WN: A hugely… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 17 Sep 2021 A Canadian Amazon Warehouse Could Soon Be the First to Unionize in North America By Candice Bernd, Truthout Published September 17, 2021 photo above: Members of Teamsters Locals 987 and 362 protest outside an… 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 15 Sep 2021 What Jason Kenney’s ‘mission accomplished’ moment has reaped for Alberta By Jason Markusoff September 15, 2021 photo above: Jason Kenney speaks on July 12 at the Premier's annual Stampede breakfast… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 15 Sep 2021 How America Fractured Into Four Parts By George Packer July/August 2021 Issue The Atlantic image above: Lucy Jones WN: Wow! The essay is stunning as it… Wayne Northey 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… 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 16 Aug 2021 Empire or Humanity? By Howard Zinn Posted on August 15, 2021 image above from the Movie Poster: The Fall of the American Empire… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 13 Aug 2021 Bomber Biden Sends in B-52 Bombers in a Tantrum over Taliban Advance August 12, 2021 by Dave Lindorff photo above: AC-130 Spectre gunship rains random death from the sky in the name… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 10 Aug 2021 Earth’s climate outlook grim but not hopeless, faith leaders say Aug 10, 2021 by Brian Roewe Action photo above: A girl in Falmouth, Britain, plays with sand during a climate… Wayne Northey 2 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 08 Aug 2021 Cuomo investigation returns spotlight to workplace harassment By Julia Manchester - 08/08/21 WN: This continues to be tragic for women. We read: “The real root of the… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 08 Aug 2021 When Even the Conservative IEA Sounds an Alarm on Climate, the World Must Listen By Daniel Ross, Truthout August 8, 2021 WN: The last quotation in this article is arresting: “We’re already the proverbial… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 03 Aug 2021 Looking to a post-pandemic Canada: What can we learn from the U.K.? By Fahad Razak, Arthur Slutsky and David Naylor Fahad Razak, Arthur Slutsky and David Naylor are physicians and professors in… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 01 Aug 2021 Am I Woke? Perhaps I am Awakening by Christy Thomas July 31, 2021 photo above: Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 01 Aug 2021 This Is Why America Needs Catholicism By Matthew Walther Mr. Walther is the editor of The Lamp, a Catholic literary journal, and a contributing editor at… 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 31 Jul 2021 We ARE the bowls of wrath – Lazar Puhalo by Archbishop Lazar Puhalo July 28, 2021 photo above: Then I heard a loud voice from the temple saying to… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 30 Jul 2021 Hot planet summer By MICHAEL GRUNWALD 07/30/2021 photo above: trofire.com WN: All sobering. excerpts: OPINION: TOO MUCH AND NEVER ENOUGH — During a… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 28 Jul 2021 Concerning Life by David Cayley June 12, 2021 photo above and to the right (clickable): Cover of David Cayley’s new (massive) book… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 28 Jul 2021 Opinion: The Jan. 6 select committee is already exceeding all expectations Opinion by Columnist Jennifer Rubin July 28, 2021 photo above: Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) hugs Capitol Police officer Harry Dunn… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 28 Jul 2021 Beyond human endurance By Ruby Mellen and William Neff July 28, 2021 image above: convergence.unc.edu WN: The concluding quote is ominous: “As humans,… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 25 Jul 2021 Apocalypse Right Now Opinion Maureen Dowd July 24, 2021 photo above: Fire consumed a home as the Sugar Fire tore through Doyle, Calif.,… 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
Blog 23 Jul 2021 Opinion: We are fiddling while the world burns, floods and chokes Opinion by Eugene Robinson Columnist July 21, 2021 photo above: Pyrocumulus clouds rise above the Bootleg Fire near Klamath Falls,… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 21 Jul 2021 The Democrat blocking progressive change is beholden to big oil. Surprised? Alex Kotch Tue 20 Jul 2021 photo above: Senator Joe Manchin, Democrat of West Virginia, chairs a Senate energy and… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 20 Jul 2021 How to worry about the Delta variant By MYAH WARD 07/20/2021 image above: wrex.com WN: I have a close relative who "won't let anybody shoot that stuff… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 20 Jul 2021 Opinion: The thirsty West’s dreaded water crisis is here Opinion by David Von Drehle Columnist photo above: Lake Mead just above the Hoover Dam in Nevada last month. (Kyle… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 19 Jul 2021 Fr. Ron Rolheiser, OMI Lectures #1, #2, #3 | Quiet Prophecy Lecture Series WN: These are hugely helpful, wise, quietly powerful. Thanks to Gerry Ayotte who studied under Father Ron Rolheiser, and pointed… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 19 Jul 2021 There’s a Word for What Trumpism Is Becoming Ideas by David Frum July 13, 2021 image above: Adam Maida / The Atlantic WN: Sobering and eerily prophetic. Please… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 19 Jul 2021 South Africa’s riots are a warning to the world Ishaan Tharoor July 18, 2021 photo above: A scene at Chris Hani Mall in the aftermath of the unrest in… 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 17 Jul 2021 Tucker Carlson’s Manufactured America By Megan Garber July 12, 2021 WN: Sick . . . Please also see an earlier piece by Timothy Karr,… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 17 Jul 2021 Around the World, Excessive Corporate Power Breeds Political Repression Inequality.org 07/17/2021 By Manuel Perez-Rocha | – an Associate Fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, D.C., and… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 17 Jul 2021 Four Pinocchios for Ron Johnson’s campaign of vaccine misinformation Fact Checker Analysis Salvador Rizzo Reporter July 16, 2021 photo above: Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) (Matt McClain/The Washington Post) WN:… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 16 Jul 2021 Cartoon: Thanks, anti-vaxxers! Mark Fiore for Daily Kos Community Friday July 16, 2021 WN: This is brilliant--but so tragic! And so richly deserved! Please… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 15 Jul 2021 ‘I Alone Can Fix It’ book excerpt: The inside story of Trump’s defiance and inaction on Jan. 6 By Philip Rucker and Carol D. Leonnig July 15, 2021 WN: Sick . . . excerpts: Part two of an… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 14 Jul 2021 How Tucker Carlson became the voice of White grievance By Michael Kranish July 14, 2021 photo above: patheos.com WN: What does one do with such elite entitlement; with such… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 14 Jul 2021 Screaming into silence By Cindy Blackstock June 30, 2021 photo above: Memorial to residential school victims outside Parliament Hill in Ottawa. (Shelby Lisk) … 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 12 Jul 2021 “The Apocalypse Has Begun”: by David Cayley January 2, 2016 WN: This is a highly instructive essay. There is much on my website about… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 12 Jul 2021 An American Kingdom By Stephanie McCrummen July 11, 2021 photo above: Mercy Culture Church in Fort Worth. (Dylan Hollingsworth for The Washington Post)… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 12 Jul 2021 Signs of a Need to Hate By Community last July 11, 2021 image above: Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 11 Jul 2021 How to Love an Atheist Spouse by Stephanie Williamson July 5, 2021 photo above: Élizabeth and Félix WN: So beautifully instructive! excerpts: or Christians living in… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 11 Jul 2021 The Ascension of Bernie Sanders Opinion Maureen Dowd July 10, 2021 photo above: Senator Bernie Sanders heading back to his office after breakfast in Burlington,… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 10 Jul 2021 Pro-Impeachment Republicans Face Voters’ Wrath By Jake Jackson July 10, 2021 WN: All so tragic! But for some comic relief: Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 10 Jul 2021 The Christian Right Is in Decline, and It’s Taking America With It Opinion Michelle Goldberg July 9, 2021 photo above: Mark Peterson/Redux WN: To the first part of the title: Amen!!!((This article… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 09 Jul 2021 Opinion: Liberal democracies are running out of time to save the rest of the planet from covid Opinion by Robert Zoellick July 9, 2021 photo above: The first batch of vaccines from the United States arrive in… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 09 Jul 2021 Opinion: Grand Old McCarthyism Opinion by Michael de Adder Editorial cartoonist July 9, 2021 photo above: Brilliant yet tragic! Please click on: Grand Old… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 08 Jul 2021 Haiti’s fate is intertwined with the U.S. By Ishaan Tharoor with Claire Parker Email photo above: A man speaks on the phone next to a mural in… 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 07 Jul 2021 Welcome to crazy town: The QAnon movement explained By Brian Bethune July 7, 2021 photo above: mindbrews.in WN: Loony and terrifying! You will also find interesting this story… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 05 Jul 2021 Opinion: Texas Republicans rush to guard the Alamo from the facts Opinion by Jason Stanford July 5, 2021 photo above: The Alamo in San Antonio, seen in 2013. (Eric Gay/AP) WN:… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 04 Jul 2021 It’s All Fun and War Games at the Air Show! photo above: The last US troop withdrawal from Vietnam occurred in 1973, after almost ten years of continuous bombings with… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 02 Jul 2021 Are Pro-Choice Catholics Worthy of Communion? By Michael F. Pettinger June 29, 2021 photo above: Joe Biden and his wife Jill Biden attend a church service… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 01 Jul 2021 War Criminal Donald Rumsfeld Found Dead at 88 by Phyllis Bennis July 1, 2021 photo above: Then-US Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld addresses a press conference at the… Wayne Northey 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… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 30 Jun 2021 How did a small town [Lytton BC] in Canada become one of the hottest places on Earth? by Eric Holthaus Wed 30 Jun 2021 WN: We're in this new normal, with much more and worse to come!((See:… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 30 Jun 2021 The Catholic Church must come clean—completely—about what it did to Native Americans The Editors June 30, 2021 photo above: A young woman takes part in a rally in Toronto June 6, 2021,… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 29 Jun 2021 Pope Francis is not a liberal! (He’s not a conservative either.) by James T. Keane June 28, 2021 photo above: Pope Francis stands apart from U.S. political factions. (CNS photo/Remo Casilli, Reuters)… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 22 Jun 2021 Eyes of Compassion: Learning From Thich Nhat Hanh Book Review of Eyes of Compassion: Learning From Thich Nhat Hanh, Jim Forest, Orbis Books, 2021 When I was working… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 16 Jun 2021 House approves Juneteenth holiday, sends bill to Biden’s desk By Marty Johnson - 06/16/21 WN: So momentous! And this announced on Thursday the 17th!: The federal government will give… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 15 Jun 2021 ‘Pure insanity’: Here’s perhaps the craziest election fraud conspiracy the Trump team pushed By Aaron Blake Senior Reporter June 15, 2021 photo above: Rudolph W. Giuliani and then-Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey A. Rosen… Wayne Northey No Comments
Blog 14 Jun 2021 What the Rich Don’t Want to Admit About the Poor By Ezra Klein Opinion Columnist June 13, 2021 photo above: Peter van Agtmael/Magnum Photos WN: In Mark 14:1-11, there is… 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 13 Jun 2021 ‘Green technology’ is fine, but to really save the planet we need to shop less By Brian Bethune May 25, 2021 WN: A discussion of a brilliant book casting new light on ACD (Anthropogenic Climate… 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
