Clarion: Journal of Spirituality and Justice

Ron Dart's 'Keepers of the Flame' - Review by Lazar Puhalo

The most firmly Canadian cultural, social and political tradition is Red Toryism. With deep spiritual and political roots in the development of the Confederation, the Red Tory factor was at the root of commonweal over the radical individualism that shaped the republic to the south of us.

Canada chose a peaceful evolution toward statehood rather than a bloody revolution, and constitutional system based on the principle of “peace, order and good government.”

Among the leaders and philosophers of our Red Tory tradition are many voices too often forgotten and neglected, to our social and cultural peril. The most well-known voice in the mid 20^th century, George Grant, gave voice to this peril in his most poignant work. He anguished over the decline and loss of Canadian nationalism in his famous Lament for a Nation.

If George Grant can be said to have a literary successor, it is surely Ron Dart. Keepers of the Flame is his latest contribution to jolting our collective memory to recall the spiritual and social foundations of our nation. Dart calls upon us to rediscover the Red Tory treasure which has made the Canadian experience unique, given us the means to resist both the anarchism of the American left and the sometimes brutal and destructive individualism of its political right.

In page after page, Dart sweeps us along the stream of great Canadian men and women of letters, philosophers, poets, novelists, clerics and often colourful politicians who made the Red Tory experience the roots of Canadian sovereignty and ethos.

Keepers of the Flame is essential reading for all who love and value the Canadian experience, sense of commonweal, ability to compromise when necessary, and continue a peaceful national evolution.

We will see much more from the pen of Ron Dart, and look forward to it with anticipation.

Archbishop Lazar Puhalo

Retired Orthodox Archbishop Of Ottawa.

1812 - The Tory Touch - Ron Dart and Archbishop Lazar

1812 - The Tory Touch (video link)

 

The War of 1812 and Red Toryism: Keepers of the Flame - Ron Dart and Archbishop Lazar

The Greater Whole: Responsibilities - St Albans & Serge Fellowship

More, alas, to come! by Archbishop Lazar Puhalo

Paul
(early teens)

By an abandoned orchard,

of the forest trail,

          toward the peaks
          in silver grass
          in the hillside womb of afternoon;

the peace of death

curls around him

          far from the

wilderness

          of the world.

Silent now are the voices

that preached love,

          but killed him.

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For Young Victims of Hate (Killed by Christians) - Archbishop Lazar Puhalo

For Trevor (14 yrs old)

 Wings close,

the swallow falls

          among

          abandoned avenues.

Glass cavern walls

          mirror him

swift on

shocks of air,

           hard pavement

           and a garden wall

cries of the heart

greater than any pain

            echo through the empty city

            invoking

the vanished

sun.

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Invitation to the Fellowship of St. Alban and St. Serge

YOU ARE INVITED

The first formal gathering of the

Fellowship of St Alban and St Serge, West coast Chapter

19-20 OCT 2012
MONASTERY OF ALL SAINTS OF NORTH AMERICA

Directors of the Fellowship Ron Dart and Archbishop Lazar warmly invite you to participate. Muffins and coffee will be available in the morning, and lunch will be provided (there will be a donation box)

Friday, 19 October at 17:00 (5 P.M.)

will be a “business” meeting of members or those who wish to be.

Saturday, 20 October, 9:30 A.M.

SISTER NONNA

Internationally known Orthodox nun from California
will speak on Patristics and our obligation to the larger community.

DAVID J. GOA

Orthodox Theological Writer and noted Canadian Philosopher Director of the Chester Ronning Centre, University of Alberta will also be a guest speaker.

ANGLICAN SPEAKERS

Will be Announced. CONTACT US:
For information and directions:

synaxis@orthodoxcanada.org

All Saints MONASTERY: (604) 826-9336 

Syriac Fathers and Syrian Crisis - Ron Dart and Archbishop Lazar Puhalo

The Mirror of Hell - Miller, Dart, Puhalo, and Jersak

Milton Acorn - Red Tory Poet -- with Ron Dart and Archbishop Lazar Puhalo

North American OPF Conference 2012

The Naked Anabaptist - discussion and review with Archbishop Lazar Puhalo and Ron Dart

 

Stuart Murray's The Naked Anabaptist:
The Bare Essentials of a Radical Faith (2010)
Review by Ron Dart

The main title is catchy, the subtitle alluring and inviting. What are naked Anabaptists and who does not want a radical faith? The invitation is there. Will the call of the Neo-Anabaptists be heeded? Surely, the time has come to leave, mostly, a 2000 year (except the Anabaptists and a few other dissidents) view of Christendom and imperial Christianity and enter the challenges of the Post-Christendom era and ethos. But, wait---is it that simple?

Erasmus and the Fathers - with Ron Dart and Archbishop Puhalo

Modes of Future Thought: Can strategic concepts move beyond ideology? by LAZAR PUHALO

LAZAR PUHALO

Modes of Future Thought: Can strategic concepts move beyond

ideology? Political Ideologies and “Global Thought”: Can there be a

Synthesis of Scientific Theories and Spiritual Traditions? 

Big History encounters a universe’s movement into greater complexity rather than its entropy. We are engaged in studying the great difficulty and limitedness with which such an apparent anomaly occurs. Our own biosphere, which, following the thought of Panov1 and others, includes human civilisations and technologies, is one island of this increasing complexity. Such complexity brings with it fragility and vulnerability, and this is a theme that should be of special interest to us, as our own biosphere is at the point of a singularity which must be examined in all earnestness.

SINGULARITY AND MODELS A Definition

Singularity

The term “singularity” will be defined in different ways by some of the disciplines that speak at this conference. We all agree, however, that our biosphere is at a critical point, which we generally refer to as a “singularity.” In terms of the overall subject of Big History, a singularity is a convergence of compound crises on a global scale. For the context of this paper, we will define the “singularity” as a crisis of transition from Axial I into Axial II, from the First Axial Era into the Second Axial Era. Here, “singularity” designates the critical point in a phase transition which creates a structural conflict among differing premises for the conceptualization, interpretation and expression of systems.

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Philokalia - Pt. 2 - with Ron Dart and Archbishop Lazar Puhalo

Intro to the Philokalia - Archbishop Lazar Puhalo and Ron Dart

The Gift of the Desert - Ron Dart and Archbishop Lazar Puhalo

Ron Dart and Archbishop Lazar discuss the wisdom of the Desert Fathers and Mothers in the context of our present era.

Thomas Merton and Personhood -- Ron Dart & Archbishop Lazar Puhalo

To Hell or Not to Hell - Ron Dart (with Kevin Miller and Archbishop Lazar Puhalo)

Thomas Talbott. Universal Salvation? The Current Debate. Ed. by Robin Parry & Christopher Partridge. Foreword by Gabriel Fackre. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2003

In this work evangelicals are talking to one another about the controverted question of universalism. It’s a conversation worth overhearing by the wider theological world. Indeed, the authors are much in dialogue with those reaches already, for careful attention is given to the history of the issues in the church universal, and to the contemporary debate in circles beyond, as well as within, evangelicalism. -- Gabriel Fackre

The reason that mature thinkers root and ground themselves in the fullness of the Great Tradition of Christian thought is simple yet often ignored. There is an animated and thoughtful dialogue that has taken place within the history of the ‘one, holy, catholic and apostolic church’ about a variety of perennial issues, and the means used to reach conclusions and conclusions reached are not always one and the same.

The Great Tradition has many traditions, and each tradition can, sadly so, slip into a sort of mindless traditionalism. Many are either born into a tradition or come to the faith journey within a tradition that is merely part of the Great Tradition. The danger, of course, and it is a perennial one, is that many often shrink their understanding of the Great Christian Tradition to the tradition that they assume is the fullness of faith. This is like taking a leaf on a branch on a trunk on a tree in a forest and calling the leaf, branch and tree one sits under the forest. Or, to change the metaphor, many assume the watery stream they sit beside is the only river that flows from the great ocean of faith.

An Orthodox Anglican Conversation (Pt. 1) - Dart and Puhalo