Dec 24, 2015 | Author - Ron Dart
William Everson as Grim Reaper – photo: JANJAAP DEKKER Outside of Father Merton—he (REF Larsson) is perhaps the best contemporary US Catholic poet. (Letter from Kenneth Rexroth to Thomas Merton, August 28 1950) William Everson is probably the most...
Dec 15, 2015 | Author - Ron Dart, Book Reviews
Andrew Klager, ed., From Suffering to Solidarity: The Historical Seeds of Mennonite Interreligious, Interethnic, and International Peacebuilding (Pickwick Publications, 2015) The publication of From Suffering to Solidarity is a must read plough to...
Dec 14, 2015 | Author - Ron Dart
If Thomas Merton (1915-1968) can be legitimately viewed as the most prominent Christian mystic of the latter half of the 20th century, then Evelyn Underhill (1875-1941) can be seen as the leading Christian mystic of the first half of the 20th century. Merton and...
Dec 6, 2015 | Author - Ron Dart
For it was a witty and a truthful rejoinder which was given by a pirate to Alexander the Great. The King asked the fellow, ‘What is your idea, in infesting the sea?’ And the pirate answered with uninhibited insolence, ‘The same as yours, as in infesting the earth! But...
Dec 1, 2015 | Author - Ron Dart
Glossary: Philo-Semitism: Teachings of esteem towards Semitic people groups, including the Jewish people. Often reduced to an uncritical support of Jews, Judaism and the State of Israel, and used as a means of critiquing replacement theology or supercessionism as...
