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Justice That Transforms–Book Series–First 3 Volumes Fall 2018

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Chrysalis Crucible – A Novel

David Milgaard, a Dear Friend, Died Suddenly and Unexpectedly Today
May 15, 2022
The Pro-Choice Religious Community Could Be a Force to Be Reckoned With
May 13, 2022
Silent Genocide
May 12, 2022
We Have Met the Enemy and He Is Us
May 10, 2022
Inside the CIA’s secret Kabul base, burned out and abandoned in haste
May 10, 2022
Devotional – M2/W2 Staff-Board Retreat, June 12, 1999
May 10, 2022
The Mumbai Bombs, July 2006
May 9, 2022
The Adages of Erasmus
May 8, 2022
The Impact of Christ on Female/Male Relationships
May 5, 2022
Commentary on: Faith, Science, and Francis Collins
May 4, 2022
Reflections on: How Tucker Carlson Stoked White Fear to Conquer Cable
May 1, 2022
RJ World eConference 2022
April 22, 2022
Paul and Christian Social Responsibility
April 22, 2022
Opinion: A young Democrat’s viral takedown demands a ‘wokeness’ rethink
April 21, 2022
Easter Song and Reflections on the Resurrection
April 17, 2022
Thrilling to: The Dissenters Trying to Save Evangelicalism From Itself
April 5, 2022
Waging Peace
April 4, 2022
Ivan Illich: An Intellectual Journey Discussion Group with David Cayley
March 29, 2022
Capitalism and Racism
March 28, 2022
Circles of Support and Accountability
March 22, 2022
End Abuse Programs
March 22, 2022
What Goes Around . . .: Big Oil and Gas Kept a Dirty Secret for Decades. Now They May Pay the Price.
March 15, 2022
Reflection on: John Mearsheimer on why the West is principally responsible for the Ukrainian crisis
March 15, 2022
Restorative Justice and Spiritual Origins, November 19, 2004
March 7, 2022
Is Violence Master of Us All?: Fight, Flight or Just Peacemaking
March 6, 2022
Liz Theoharis, The Rise of White Christian Nationalism: Which Way America?
February 26, 2022
Spotlight on: Putin’s spiritual destiny
February 25, 2022
Ominous: A Convoy Revved by Foreign Actors Spreading Lies
February 21, 2022
Christian Pacifism and Its Cultured Naysayers
February 13, 2022
When the Rage Came for Me
February 12, 2022
A Look At: Despite Their Pastors Dying, Between 30-40% of American White Evangelical Christians Remain Anti-Vax
February 5, 2022
Canada’s Anti-Vax Answer to Jan. 6 Is an Indefinite Blockade of Ottawa
February 4, 2022
Tragic: Minnesota National Guard Activated as Unrest Grows Over Police ‘Execution’ of Black Man
February 4, 2022
The making of THE BIG LIE myth
February 4, 2022
Highlight: The lesson for bishops from Benedict report: Apologize, apologize, apologize
February 1, 2022
The Jan. 6 Committee Members Are Patriots Making Sure Treason is Fully Documented
January 31, 2022
Marshall McLuhan, the Catholic thinker who predicted the internet, spent his last days praying with a Jesuit
January 29, 2022
How the Capitol attacks helped spread Christian nationalism in the extreme right
January 28, 2022
Reflections on: The American polity is cracked, and might collapse. Canada must prepare
January 23, 2022
This California Dairy Farm’s Secret Ingredient for Clean Electricity: Cow Poop
January 22, 2022
100+ Ultra-Rich People Warn Fellow Elites: ‘It’s Taxes or Pitchforks’
January 19, 2022
Words that Got Martin Luther King, Jr. Shot
January 17, 2022
Surveillance will follow us into ‘the metaverse,’ and our bodies could be its new data source
January 15, 2022
Read NPR’s full interview with former President Donald Trump
January 12, 2022
Misinformation from the U.S. is the next virus—and it’s spreading fast
January 8, 2022
Elizaveta Pilenko-Skobcova (Mother Maria) (1891 – 1945)
January 1, 2022
Jesus Christ: The Unanswered Questions
December 30, 2021
The 10 Worst Americans of 2021
December 28, 2021
How Awesome Is “Awesome”?
December 21, 2021
How One Country Stopped COVID Dead in Its Tracks
December 15, 2021
Mary’s Song
December 12, 2021
“Our Lady of Everyday Life”: La Virgen de Guadalupe and the Religious Lives of Mexican Catholic Women
December 12, 2021
What the New Right Sees
December 11, 2021
Introducing THE ANÁSTISIS CENTER FOR CHRISTIAN EDUCATION & MINISTRY
December 9, 2021
Omicron’s Explosive Growth Is a Warning Sign
December 8, 2021
Were Moderna & Pfizer’s HEK-293 Tests Immoral?
December 7, 2021
The Great Sumas Lake Heist: A Guilty Little Secret in Plain Sight
December 5, 2021
God in a Cave
December 3, 2021
The Culture Wars: Plato, Shakespeare, Hesse, Eliot
November 30, 2021
Sing, Choirs of Angels
November 30, 2021
Vandana Shiva: The Great Seed Piracy
November 30, 2021
Into This Demented Inn
November 28, 2021
Commentary on: “The Invention of Thanksgiving”
November 25, 2021
What is “Evangelical” Theology?
November 25, 2021
The Teacher Who Never Spoke
November 25, 2021
All the Lawyers Who Stood Between Ahmaud Arbery and Justice
November 24, 2021
Learning to Love Recklessly
November 23, 2021
New Revelations Emerge on How Donald Trump Killed 400,000 (or More) Americans
November 17, 2021
Announcing: “First Nations Version An Indigenous Translation of the New Testament”
November 16, 2021
Paper and Story: “The Sex Offender as Scapegoat”
November 16, 2021
Thoughts on: “White People Explain Racism to Me”
November 15, 2021
Commentary on: “Gomez, painting Catholics as victims, goes after his woke oppressors”
November 11, 2021
Who Knew Being Silent With Monks Could Be So Liberating?
November 10, 2021
Two Comedic Takes on Climate Change; One Challenging Renewables
November 10, 2021
Jordan Peterson: Sic et Non
November 9, 2021
Passages to New Life
November 9, 2021
Announcement of “Hit CS Lewis biopic ‘The Most Reluctant Convert’ highlights author’s dramatic conversion”
November 9, 2021
The Horror of: “ ‘It’s being abused by an entire belief system’: a haunting film on sexual abuse by Catholic clergy”
November 9, 2021
Wisdom: “Thoughts on Freedom”
November 9, 2021
Consider: “U.S. Covid Deaths Get Even Redder”
November 8, 2021
Walter Wink & “The Myth of Redemptive Violence”
November 8, 2021
The European Union makes a policy play in Venezuela.
November 7, 2021
Reflections on “Drone Strikes and Torture Will Cause Big Blowback”
November 6, 2021
Irrelevant Saints
November 5, 2021
Highlighting: ” ‘Our ecological crisis is fundamentally a moral one’: Catholic Climate Covenant’s new executive director hopes to inspire care for creation”
November 4, 2021
Pope Francis meets with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas
November 4, 2021
If we’d listened to Cardinal Bernardin, the Catholic Church would not be so divided today
November 4, 2021
Highlighting “Absolute Carbon Reduction Is an ‘Issue of Life and Death’ for Indigenous Peoples”
November 2, 2021
Nearly a Third of Republicans Surveyed Are Ready to Support Violence
November 2, 2021
Focus on “I’m With Condoleezza Rice About White Guilt”
November 1, 2021
Spotlight on “Why MAGA Social Media Is a Hacker’s Wet Dream”
October 31, 2021
Interaction With “Neuroscience’s Existential Crisis”
October 30, 2021
Concerning “Military vs Climate Spending: A Moral Catastrophe in Three Pictures”
October 28, 2021
Reflections on “God, Trump and the Closed-Door World of a Major Conservative Group”
October 26, 2021
Timothy Snyder: On Tyranny
October 25, 2021
Commentary: “As Sen. Joe Manchin’s Star Rose in West Virginia, the FBI and IRS Probed His Closest Allies”
October 25, 2021
Engagement With “Frances Haugen: ‘I never wanted to be a whistleblower. But lives were in danger’”
October 24, 2021
Going “Inside the Effort to Create a ‘Christian Nationalist’ Internet”
October 23, 2021
Daily Wisdom
October 22, 2021
Interaction With “The CIA: 70 Years of Organized Crime”
October 21, 2021
Mapping the Evangelical Mind
October 21, 2021
Legacy of Shame:
October 20, 2021
Responding to Persecution
October 17, 2021
A cheap and efficient way to directly convert industrial CO₂ offgas into oxygen and solid carbon
October 17, 2021
Good Shepherd New York
October 17, 2021
Comrade Ruskin
October 14, 2021
What the Future May Hold for the Coronavirus and Us
October 14, 2021
Opinion: This climate change contrarian gives us an important reminder about science in general
October 13, 2021
The Hopkins doc vs. the vaccine consensus
October 13, 2021
A Handful of Reasons to Join a Church [despite the exodus] – Sharad Yadav
October 11, 2021
First, Impressive Vaccines for Covid. Next Up: The Flu.
October 9, 2021
Justice and Peace:
October 9, 2021
Revelations of Divine Love
October 6, 2021
On A letter from Hell
October 4, 2021
They Went to Bible College to Deepen Their Faith.
October 1, 2021
Trump Extremists Brought Numerous Guns on January 6, Evidence Shows
October 1, 2021
Josh McDowell steps back from ministry after controversial remarks on black families
September 30, 2021
Engelhardt, A Hellfire World
September 28, 2021
Harvard cracks and a dam breaks
September 28, 2021
Insuring Heaven or Hell on Earth?
September 28, 2021
Pastor Gives Christians Who Claim ‘Religious Exemption’ From Masks And Vaccines An Epic Bible Lesson
September 25, 2021
Mapping America’s hospitalization and vaccination divide
September 24, 2021
Alberta COVID party sends several people to hospital with virus
September 24, 2021
Six Rules That Will Define Our Second Pandemic Winter
September 22, 2021
A Canadian Amazon Warehouse Could Soon Be the First to Unionize in North America
September 17, 2021
Pope Francis told bishops to shepherd pro-choice politicians ‘with God’s style.’
September 17, 2021
What Jason Kenney’s ‘mission accomplished’ moment has reaped for Alberta
September 15, 2021
How America Fractured Into Four Parts
September 15, 2021
States of Incarceration
September 9, 2021
9/11 was a test:
September 5, 2021
Empire or Humanity?
August 16, 2021
Bomber Biden Sends in B-52 Bombers in a Tantrum over Taliban Advance
August 13, 2021
Earth’s climate outlook grim but not hopeless, faith leaders say
August 10, 2021
‘Get scared’: World’s scientists say disastrous climate change is here
August 10, 2021
Cuomo investigation returns spotlight to workplace harassment
August 8, 2021
When Even the Conservative IEA Sounds an Alarm on Climate, the World Must Listen
August 8, 2021
Looking to a post-pandemic Canada: What can we learn from the U.K.?
August 3, 2021
Am I Woke? Perhaps I am Awakening
August 1, 2021
This Is Why America Needs Catholicism
August 1, 2021
Covid Is Now a Crisis for the Unvaccinated
August 1, 2021
We ARE the bowls of wrath – Lazar Puhalo
July 31, 2021
Hot planet summer
July 30, 2021
Concerning Life
July 28, 2021
Opinion: The Jan. 6 select committee is already exceeding all expectations
July 28, 2021
Beyond human endurance
July 28, 2021
Apocalypse Right Now
July 25, 2021
The Threat of an Unvaccinated South
July 24, 2021
What were the Capitol rioters thinking on Jan. 6?
July 24, 2021
Opinion: We are fiddling while the world burns, floods and chokes
July 23, 2021
The Democrat blocking progressive change is beholden to big oil. Surprised?
July 21, 2021
How to worry about the Delta variant
July 20, 2021
Opinion: The thirsty West’s dreaded water crisis is here
July 20, 2021
Fr. Ron Rolheiser, OMI Lectures #1, #2, #3 | Quiet Prophecy Lecture Series
July 19, 2021
There’s a Word for What Trumpism Is Becoming
July 19, 2021
South Africa’s riots are a warning to the world
July 19, 2021
Republicans were happy to support vaccine when they could credit Trump, then went on the attack
July 18, 2021
Tucker Carlson’s Manufactured America
July 17, 2021
Around the World, Excessive Corporate Power Breeds Political Repression
July 17, 2021
Four Pinocchios for Ron Johnson’s campaign of vaccine misinformation
July 17, 2021
Cartoon: Thanks, anti-vaxxers!
July 16, 2021
‘I Alone Can Fix It’ book excerpt: The inside story of Trump’s defiance and inaction on Jan. 6
July 15, 2021
How Tucker Carlson became the voice of White grievance
July 14, 2021
Screaming into silence
July 14, 2021
This entire country is haunted
July 13, 2021
“The Apocalypse Has Begun”:
July 12, 2021
An American Kingdom
July 12, 2021
Signs of a Need to Hate
July 12, 2021
How to Love an Atheist Spouse
July 11, 2021
The Ascension of Bernie Sanders
July 11, 2021
Pro-Impeachment Republicans Face Voters’ Wrath
July 10, 2021
The Christian Right Is in Decline, and It’s Taking America With It
July 10, 2021
Opinion: Liberal democracies are running out of time to save the rest of the planet from covid
July 9, 2021
Opinion: Grand Old McCarthyism
July 9, 2021
Haiti’s fate is intertwined with the U.S.
July 8, 2021
Opinion: Nikole Hannah-Jones just proved the correctness of critical race theory
July 8, 2021
The war inside the Canadian Armed Forces
July 8, 2021
Welcome to crazy town: The QAnon movement explained
July 7, 2021
Opinion: Texas Republicans rush to guard the Alamo from the facts
July 5, 2021
It’s All Fun and War Games at the Air Show!
July 4, 2021
Are Pro-Choice Catholics Worthy of Communion?
July 2, 2021
War Criminal Donald Rumsfeld Found Dead at 88
July 1, 2021
Inside the Capitol Riot: An Exclusive Video Investigation
June 30, 2021
How did a small town [Lytton BC] in Canada become one of the hottest places on Earth?
June 30, 2021
The Catholic Church must come clean—completely—about what it did to Native Americans
June 30, 2021
Pope Francis is not a liberal! (He’s not a conservative either.)
June 29, 2021
Eyes of Compassion: Learning From Thich Nhat Hanh
June 22, 2021
House approves Juneteenth holiday, sends bill to Biden’s desk
June 16, 2021
‘Pure insanity’: Here’s perhaps the craziest election fraud conspiracy the Trump team pushed
June 15, 2021
What the Rich Don’t Want to Admit About the Poor
June 14, 2021
The Wisdom of Trauma
June 13, 2021
‘Green technology’ is fine, but to really save the planet we need to shop less
June 13, 2021
One priest’s message to the church: ‘Shut your mouth and just listen’
June 12, 2021
Book Review of: Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
June 12, 2021
John A. Macdonald can wait
June 7, 2021
How to ensure Indigenous tourism experiences support the right communities
June 6, 2021
Canada’s Solitary Confinement Deemed “Torture”:
June 2, 2021
Thoughts and Prayers for my right wing aunt and uncle
May 29, 2021
Opinion: It’s ‘The Code’ of the NHL, and it has no cure for stupid
May 29, 2021
René Girard, Conversion, and the Present Media Moment
May 27, 2021
Chris Hedges: God’s Covenant in the Promised Land
May 19, 2021
Eyes Open: An Anti-Asian Racism PSA
May 16, 2021
Why Canada’s special forces ‘shadow army’ is still fighting ISIS
May 12, 2021
Mass Psychosis May Follow Cheney’s Ouster
May 11, 2021
Return the National Parks to the Tribes
May 8, 2021
Alfred McCoy, How Washington Lost the Ultimate Drug War
May 7, 2021
Joe Biden’s War Powers:
May 7, 2021
Ron Dart Interviewed by Lauren Southern
May 6, 2021
Trump’s Secret Rules for Drone Strikes Outside War Zones Are Disclosed
May 1, 2021
Empire Politician:
April 29, 2021
Jamaal Bowman Explains How Progressives Will Make Biden’s Presidency Even Bolder
April 29, 2021
Opinion: The American right is becoming completely untethered from reality
April 28, 2021
Opinion: Prolonged solitary confinement is torture. It’s time for all states to ban it.
April 28, 2021
Almost Everything Biden Said About Ending the Afghanistan War Was a Lie
April 27, 2021
Out of Sight / Out of Mind
April 25, 2021
The look in Derek Chauvin’s eyes was something worse than hate
April 24, 2021
Tribes Want Medals Awarded for Wounded Knee Massacre Rescinded
April 24, 2021
Saving the salmon and Beauty:
April 22, 2021
America’s unique gun violence problem, explained in 16 maps and charts
April 21, 2021
What white Christian support for Trump reveals about systemic racism
April 21, 2021
Dear White America – “History Has its Eye on You”
April 20, 2021
Compliance Will Not Save Me
April 20, 2021
Hundreds gather to protest 13-year-old’s killing following release of body cam footage
April 20, 2021
Driving While Black is still a death sentence
April 13, 2021
How Trump Unleashed a Domestic Terrorism Movement—
April 12, 2021
Everyone Belongs to God
April 10, 2021
Dianne Tramutola-Lawson–Class of ’60
April 8, 2021
Former inmate taps into her prison experience for ‘groundbreaking’ PhD research
April 1, 2021
I’ve been a priest for 50 years and still struggle with the problem of evil
March 30, 2021
Restorative Justice: Peacemaking Not Warmaking; Transformative Justice: Penal Abolitionism Not Prison Reform
March 26, 2021
America Must Understand How Bad Trump Truly Was in Order to See What’s Coming
March 26, 2021
The fight to unionize Amazon is the most important labor story of this century
March 25, 2021
Why America’s Great Crime Decline Is Over
March 25, 2021
The wrong kind of normal
March 24, 2021
Wall Street May Finally Be Taking Climate Change Seriously
March 24, 2021
Neoliberalism Doesn’t Care
March 20, 2021
Introducing: The Kenarchy Journal
March 15, 2021
Preparing Formerly Incarcerated Returning Citizens as Part of the Crime Prevention Solution
March 11, 2021
Cornel West:
March 6, 2021
Houses of hate:
March 1, 2021
The Useful Idiot:
February 28, 2021
10 Years After His Passing, Howard Zinn Remains a Threat to the Status Quo
February 27, 2021
How the Military-Industrial Complex Gets Away With Murder in Contract After Contract
February 27, 2021
On Misreading Victory
February 26, 2021
There Is No Christian Case for Trump
February 26, 2021
Technology of Death:
February 26, 2021
Christians as Dangerously Empathic Good Samaritans
February 22, 2021
His pastors tried to steer him away from social media rage.
February 21, 2021
Daily Wisdom
February 19, 2021
The Prognosis
February 19, 2021