In this wide-ranging interview, Rayne and Mika talk with Dr Chris Marshall. Chris was the first holder of the Diana Unwin Chair in Restorative Justice in the School of Government at Victoria University / Te Herenga Waka, and has taught theology and New Testament studies there and at Laidlaw College. They discuss restorative justice in the criminal justice system and its Christian and indigenous roots; what justice is in the Biblical portrayal; how to make sense of guilt, shame, punishment and forgiveness; why St Paul deserves reconsideration as a radical thinker; and where Chris finds hope in all of this.

Show notes

• Chris Marshall profile, Te Herenga Waka
• The birthplace of restorative justice, US Mennonite Central Committee
• Changing Lenses: A New Focus for Crime and Justice (1990) Howard Zehr
• Compassionate Justice (2012) Chris Marshall
• Parables of The Prodigal Son and The Good Samaritan
• Does restorative justice affect reconviction?, Shapland et al, 2008 (including cost:benefit analysis of restorative justice)
• Restorative communities & Student Interest and Conflict Resolution team – restorative practice at Victoria University / Te Herenga Waka
• The Book of Forgiving: The Fourfold Path for Healing Ourselves and Our World (2013) Desmond Tutu
• Sin, Shame and Salvation: Confronting and Healing Pathological Shame (video lecture, 2022) Chris Marshall
• From the Holy Mountain: A Journey Among the Christians of the Middle East (1997) William Dalrymple
• The Experience of God: Being, Consciousness, Bliss (2013) David Bentley Hart