Dec 15, 2014 | Author - Ron Dart, Book Reviews
Najla Said, Looking for Palestine: Growing Up Confused in an Arab-American Family (Riverhead Books, New York: 2013). Hardcover: ISBN: 978-1-59448-708-8: 258 pages I tried to wrap my teenage head around the existence of such a place (Gaza) in the...
Dec 8, 2014 | Author - Ron Dart
Thomas Merton: Hedgehog and Fox The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing. – Archilochus Already there are some who unabashedly compare Merton to the Fathers of the Church. In fact, this is not far-fetched. It is simply an expression...
Dec 5, 2014 | Author - Ron Dart, Book Reviews
Challenging Christian Zionism: Conferences and Book Reviews Donald Wagner & Walter T. Davis (Editors), Zionism and the Quest for Justice in the Holy Land (Wipf and Stock Publishers: Eugene, 2014). Paul S. Rowe, John H.A. Dyck, Jens Zimmerman...
Nov 25, 2014 | Author - Ron Dart
ERASMUS AND MERTON: SOUL FRIENDS The name of Erasmus will never perish. - John Colet (1) Erasmus has published volumes more full of wisdom than any which Europe has seen for ages. - Thomas More (2) I am halfway through the Ratio Verae Theologiae of...
Nov 14, 2014 | Author - Ron Dart
A great countryman of ours: a man to thank God for. - Robertson Davies Stephen Leacock was known as one of the finest writers in the first half of the 20th century–a spellbinding and unique Canadian version of Dickens, Twain and Swift. Leacock has...
Nov 14, 2014 | Author - Ron Dart
But there are remnants left around me…very strange remnants…in this case the Anglican Church which has in it some of the ancient truth and therefore I will live within it. – George Grant Liberalism was, in origin, criticism of the old established order. Today, it is...
