Apr 16, 2009 | Author - Wayne Northey
Introduction The church is called to be now what the world is meant to be then. Peace is possibly the most poignant, difficult and elusive goal of the entire creation. Lest we forget, title of my sermon, the church is nonetheless called to peace. This is perhaps the...
Sep 23, 2008 | Author - Wayne Northey, Book Reviews
Book Review of Compulsory Compassion: A Critique of Restorative Justice, Annalise Acorn, Vancouver: UBC Press, 2004, 207 pages. By Wayne Northey Introduction There is a longstanding difference in how to read the Gospels in relation to criminal...
Apr 22, 2008 | Author - Wayne Northey
Introduction Ever since Clark Pinnock taught an interterm course in 1975 at Regent College, entitled “The Politics of Jesus”, for close to half of my life, I have been drawn to the nonviolent Cross of Jesus. Pinnock later taught a full-semester course by the...
Oct 2, 2007 | Author - Wayne Northey
IS THERE A PLACE FOR DREAMING? RESTORATIVE JUSTICE AND INTERNATIONAL STATE CONFLICTby Wayne NortheyThis lecture grew out of a six-month research project where Wayne served as first Scholar in Residence, Centrefor Research on Conflict, Conflict Studies, Saint Paul...
Dec 9, 2006 | Author - Wayne Northey, Book Reviews
Book Review of Covenant of Peace: The Missing Peace in New Testament Theology and Ethics, Willard M. Swartley, Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmanns, 2006; 542 pp. By Wayne Northey It was my good fortune to have spent a little time with Mennonite New Testament theologian...
Sep 17, 2006 | Author - Wayne Northey
It was while descending from a hike up Elk Mountain in the eastern Fraser Valley of British Columbia that someone shared about his son, one of Canada’s finest trained élite soldiers, who had recently returned from a tour of duty in Afghanistan. His son said the movie...