Jul 9, 2012 | Author - Ron Dart
There are moments in history when much hinges on decisions made by leaders and visionaries (and those who dutifully follow them). Inevitably, we all live with the consequences, for good or ill, of those who have preceded us. The early decades of the 16th century was a...
May 5, 2012 | Author - Ron Dart, Book Reviews
Anna Yin, Wings Toward Sunlight: Poems, 2011 We had the experience but missed the meaning. – T.S. Eliot There is poetry that speaks to the head but never touches the deeper recesses of the heart, and there is poetry that massages the heart but does...
May 5, 2012 | Author - Ron Dart, Book Reviews
Milton Acorn: In A Springtime Instant: Selected Poems, James Deahl (ed.), 2012. Milton Acorn (1923-1986) was the most dynamic, controversial and prophetic Canadian Anglican political poet in the latter half of the 20th century. Acorn was a poet who spoke to the people...
Apr 24, 2012 | Author - Ron Dart
The National Association of Evangelicals was formed in 1942, and built into the mandate of such an Association was a distinct way of understanding what it meant to be an evangelical and Christian. Such an organizational vision (and those who defended it) formed what...