Feb 3, 2018 | Author - Brad Jersak, Author - Ron Dart, Book Reviews
“Erasmus was too good a humanist to live only in the past.” – P.S. Allen In these days of the 500th anniversary of Luther’s Wittenburg manifesto and the strange opposition between Christianity and humanism, one can only wonder how...
Feb 2, 2018 | Author - Ron Dart
Ron Dart assesses Canada's enigmatic rock-star intellectual, Jordan Peterson, who transcends culture wars tribalism, provoking the Progressive Left while rebuffing the Soft and Alt-Right who attempt to co-opt him.
Jan 26, 2018 | Author - Ron Dart, Book Reviews
Jim Forest, At Play in the Lions’ Den: A Biography and Memoir of Daniel Berrigan (Orbis Books, 2017). The publication of At Play in the Lions’ Den brings to a fine and fit close a trilogy of biographies by Jim Forest, the previous biographical page-turners about...
Jan 8, 2018 | Author - Ron Dart
A Century of Antics, Epics, & Escapades: The Varsity Outdoor Club 1917-2017 Those who have studied at University of British Columbia (at undergraduate or graduate levels) and who have had some interest in mountaineering (at whatever level) will have joined and...
Dec 28, 2017 | Author - Brian Zahnd, Author - Ron Dart
The Middle Way of ErasmusBrian Zahnd (originally posted at www.brianzahnd.com). Ever since becoming familiar with the Renaissance theologian and Christian humanist Erasmus of Rotterdam (1466–1536) some ten or twelve years ago, I have often wished that Erasmus...
Dec 27, 2017 | Author - Ron Dart, Author - Wayne Northey
Foreword This is, a trenchant, at times poignant, (in Ron Dart’s oft-used expression) “plough-to-soil” book. In the early 1980s, as part of completing a Masters of Theological Studies degree at Regent College, University of British Columbia, I focussed my Church...
