Essay: Ireland at the crossroads – can the ancient Brehon laws guide the republic away from anti-immigrant sentiment?
Director of Ireland’s Great Hunger Institute at Quinnipiac University, CHRISTINA KINEALY, in an article first published on The Conversation, looks at the challenges immigration poses for new Prime Minister Simon Harris – and how ancient Brehon laws may provide an answer…
Sight-Seeing: The restorative justice of God
NILS VON KALM argues that our division of people into “good” and “bad” is not the way Jesus sees us…
Evangelical leaders push for criminal justice reform in the US
RNS Evangelical Christian leaders are spearheading a campaign for criminal justice reform, calling for equitable punishment, alternatives to incarceration and a different take on the “tough on crime” language of the Trump administration. “Our country’s overreliance on incarceration fails to make us safer or to restore people and communities who have been harmed,” said James Ackerman, CEO of […]
Postcards: Retired Ugandan bishop seeks restorative justice for former child soldiers
FREDRICK NZWILI, of Religion News Service, reports on how a retired Anglican bishop is championing the cause of restorative justice in northern Uganda…