Blog 19 Apr 2016 World Social Forum, August 9 – 14, Montréal Canadian Friends of Sabeel, a pro-reconciliation entity encouraging justice and peace between Palestine and Israel, and part of a worldwide… Editor No Comments
Blog 14 Apr 2016 Putting a Human Face on Capital Punishment Jamie Arpin-Ricci, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016 This book appears to be very good! The interview with the author is… Editor No Comments
Blog 03 Apr 2015 The Inside-Out Gospel Rehabilitating Our Criminal Justice System By Rev. Michael F. Blevins, J.D., M.Div., LL.M. Executive Director of the NE Iowa Peace… Editor No Comments
Blog 06 Mar 2015 Spirituality of Penal Abolition WN: Ruth Morris, Canadian Quaker who won numerous humanitarian awards, invited me to present this paper at ICOPA IX in… Editor No Comments
Blog 06 Mar 2015 Making Friends of Enemies: Father Elias Chacour I love this story! Please click on: Making Friends of Enemies Editor No Comments
Blog 05 Mar 2015 Transformative Justice Vision and Spirituality: M2/W2 Association and The Criminal Justice System This paper was done in May 2002 for a presentation at a Correctional Service of Canada institution. I do not… Editor No Comments
Blog 05 Mar 2015 ‘In the Middle:’ Biblical Reflections on Restorative Justice Tom Yoder Neufeld presented this to the Mennonite Central Committee Canada Restorative Justice Network in Winnipeg in 2003. It well… Editor No Comments
Blog 28 Feb 2015 Capital Punishment WN: I was invited to dialogue with Dr. Richard Land of (later) “The Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission” of the… Editor No Comments
Blog 12 Mar 2014 Transformative Justice Vision and Spirituality Much of this material first appeared in The Spiritual Roots of Restorative Justice, “Christianity: The Rediscovery of Restorative Justice”, editor,… Editor No Comments
Blog 10 Mar 2014 The Sex Offender as Scapegoat Vigilante Violence and a Faith Community Response by Hugh Kirkegaard & Wayne Northey It was my friend Hugh Kirkegaard who… Editor No Comments
Blog 10 Mar 2014 Is There A Place For Dreaming? Restorative Justice and International State Conflict Scholar-In-Residence Public Lecture Saint Paul University, September 13, 2007 The title was of a… Editor No Comments
Blog 26 Feb 2014 “Not Enough!” and International Restorative Justice Colloquium on Violence & Religion (COV&R) Presentation, May 31 – June 4, 2006, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada WN: When I finally… Editor No Comments
Blog 26 Feb 2014 Restorative Justice Stories – MCCC 50th Anniversary, December 14, 2013 WN: This paper was presented in Winnipeg exactly 50 years after 40 men(!) gathered to establish Mennoninte Central Committee Canada:… Editor No Comments
Blog 26 Feb 2014 Restorative Justice and Spiritual Origins November 19, 2004 I cannot recall where this was published/presented. A similar article also on this website ("Restorative Justice Stories… Editor No Comments
Blog 26 Feb 2014 Restorative Reintegration Sixth International Conference on Restorative Justice, “Best Practices in Restorative Justice”, June 1, 2003 An excerpt: For over 25 years,… Editor No Comments
Blog 25 Feb 2014 Restorative Justice Vision and Spirituality Association for Reformed Political Action (ARPA) Presentation, Langley Canadian Reformed Church, March 5, 2005 I was grateful to co-present at… Editor No Comments
Blog 25 Feb 2014 René Girard and Violence This was (re)written just for my own joy in 1997, with subsequent rewrites. A version was prepared for a Fraser… Editor No Comments
Blog 25 Feb 2014 Punishment and Retribution An Attempt to Delimit Their Scope in New Testament Thought By C.F.D. Moule The following is from the "Preface" of… Editor No Comments
Blog 25 Feb 2014 Call For a Church Apology Vis À Vis Crime and Punishment Under recently changed Canadian law that removed "Pardon" from legal vocabulary, such a proposed "church apology" would keep the Western… 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
Blog 24 Feb 2014 The Spirituality of Penal Abolition ICOPA IX Presentation 2000 Noted Canadian Quaker activist and author Dr. Ruth Morris was the main organizer of the above… Editor No Comments
Blog 24 Feb 2014 Creating New Hearts: Moving From Retributive to Restorative Justice New Zealand Catholic Bishops Conference: A Pastoral Letter to the Catholic People of New Zealand Wednesday August 30, 1995 -… Editor No Comments
Blog 22 Feb 2014 A Brief Look At Restorative Justice NOTE: This was written several years ago to give a basic look at Restorative Justice. It has been slightly updated,… Editor No Comments
Blog 22 Feb 2014 Towards A New Paradigm of Justice WN: Contemporary Western Restorative Justice theory and practice were not first developed by Americans, though they have greatly contributed to… Editor No Comments
Blog 22 Feb 2014 Homo Homini Ubuntu WN: “Homo Homini Ubuntu” – Man is Ubuntu To Man – is title of the talk given on the wonderful… Editor No Comments