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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Reflections on life experiences and justice, exploration and awareness through arts and writing, and spiritual practices to nurture justice.

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Tools and research for classrooms and school administrators emphasizing restorative practice and positive discipline.

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The Conscious Lawyer: An Interview with Elaine Quinn, Editor

The Conscious Lawyer: An Interview with Elaine Quinn, Editor

Elaine Quinn is the editor of The Conscious Lawyer, a professional magazine and website devoted to positive, socially aware developments in legal practice and thinking. Elaine has also contributed thought provoking, in-depth book reviews on this Justice Conversation website. I asked Elaine if she would be willing to share with...
Centering Prayer

Centering Prayer

People working for justice are regularly witnesses of others’ pain. Often those painful circumstances rearrange the other person’s life, or even ends it. Justice workers, and in fact all of us, need to practice self care in order to not close down, give into anger, harden, retreat, project, or attack....
Matthew Part V: Imagination

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...