Faith traditions can contribute to the ideas and practices of restorative justice, as well as to punitive politics. How can communities of faith, and in particular, faith leaders and lay people, humanize those society chooses to demonize? How can interfaith spaces create positive action in this work? This session will explore how practitioners from several different faith traditions draw from both the universally divine and religion-specific aspects of their traditions, to rewrite the narratives that seek retribution over restoration.

