Apr 22, 2015 | Author - Ron Dart, Book Reviews
Pamela R. McCarroll, Waiting at the Foot of the Cross: Toward a Theology of Hope for Today; Foreword by Douglas John Hall (Pickwick Publications, 2014). There has been, unfortunately so, a way of doing Christian theology that is more about...
Mar 28, 2015 | Author - Ron Dart
Thomas Merton, like C.S. Lewis and Simone Weil, has not always been best served by his most ardent admirers. It is a welcome thing that—in all these cases—we have so much ‘informal’ material to help us see them actually developing their ideas, testing out thoughts...
Mar 17, 2015 | Author - Ron Dart
Messner is not only the greatest high-altitude mountaineer the world has ever known; he is probably the best it will ever know. Time Reinhold Messner is considered by many to be one of the most significant mountaineers of the 20th century...
Mar 12, 2015 | Author - Ron Dart
Sheila Grant and Lament for a Nation George Grant always claimed that Lament for a Nation had been misunderstood. — Sheila Grant, “Afterword” Lament for a Nation Lament for a Nation has been called “a masterpiece of political meditation” (Peter Emberley) and it...
Feb 12, 2015 | Author - Ron Dart
There are few who are not aware of C.S. Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia. Many have read the delightful and charming seven missives a few times, others but once and many more, probably, have seen the first three books turned films: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe,...
Dec 17, 2014 | Author - Ron Dart
Two hundred years have passed in 2014 since John Colenso was born. Colenso dared in the 19th century (when few did) to ponder the troubling and difficult passages in the Old Testament in which violence seems to be ordained by a just and loving God. Colenso pondered...
