Excerpt: “WHEN THINGS FALL APART” by Pema Chodron

Pema Chodron, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times (Shambala Classics, 1997). Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing.  We think that the point is to pass the test or to overcome the problem, but the truth is that...

Violence Renounced

Violence Renounced: René Girard, Biblical Studies and Peacemaking, Edited by Willard M. Swartley, Telford, PA: Pandora Press, 2000, 343 pages. By Wayne Northey “René Girard is, in my opinion, the most significant theorist of violence in the twentieth century (p....