Justice Conversation – Love, Law, Practice, Effects, and the Human Shape of Justice

Love is the Foundation of Justice

Whether in criminal justice, school discipline, or social action, Justice is not served except through Love. Read more...

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Book Review: Transforming Justice, Lawyers, and the Practice of Law by Marjorie A. Silver

Review by Elaine Quinn This review first appeared in the online magazine, The Conscious Lawyer, vol II, May 2017. Available through Carolina Academic Press If I had an understanding before that law needs to change and that that change is already happening, this book has helped that understanding become a...

Matthew Part V: Imagination

“Even the quest for justice can turn into barbarism if it is not infused with a quality of mercy, an awareness of human frailty and a path to redemption. The crust of civilization is thinner than you think.” – David Brooks, The Cruelty of Call-out Culture, NT Times, January...

Love is the Light of the Sight

The following is a teaching of the Sufi master, Hazrat Inayat Khan, contributed by artist and Sufi retreat guide, Mary Risala Laird. “There are moral principles taught to mankind by various teachers, by many traditions, one differing from the other, which are like separate drops coming out of the fountain....