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...
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...
