Jun 9, 2006 | Author - Wayne Northey
[NOTE: The sermon is available for a time as a recording at: http://www.pgimf.org/. It combines my thirty years of work in Restorative Justice with the three minorities I have sensed living in for a long time.] Originally presented at Point Grey Fellowship, June 6,...
Jun 9, 2006 | Author - Wayne Northey
PAUL’S LETTERS AS SUBVERSION In Galatians 3:26 – 29, Paul says, “You are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus, for all of you who were united with Christ in baptism have been clothed [enduo] with Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free,...
Jun 9, 2006 | Author - Wayne Northey
PREFACE The Christian witness in the Western world has been exceptionally weak in this century. Outside of a few arenas, where the church is being persecuted, the world has had a greater impact on the church than the church has had on the world. In most instances the...
Jun 8, 2006 | Author - Wayne Northey
“The king asked the fellow, ‘What is your idea, in infesting the sea?’ And the pirate answered, with uninhibited insolence, ‘The same as yours, in infesting the earth! But because I do it with a tiny craft, I’m called a pirate: because you have a mighty navy, you’re...
Jun 8, 2006 | Author - Wayne Northey
“War is hell,” observed Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman. And Steven Spielberg dips us right into its fiery midst in his 1998 Summer release. The opening and closing scenes in particular are riveting. Says Jamie Portman of Southam Newspapers (Vancouver Sun,...
Jun 8, 2006 | Author - Wayne Northey
Introduction “Violence is the ethos of our times. It is the spirituality of the modern world (Wink, 1992, p. 13).”, writes one contemporary cultural observer and New Testament theologian, Walter Wink. More than any religious spirituality, including Christian, violence...
