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...
Apr 8, 2012 | Author - Ron Dart, Book Reviews
Review of Dennis Gruending, Pulpit and Politics: Competing Religious Ideologies in Canadian Public Life, 2011. By Ron Dart. I have taught Ideology and Politics for many years, and the dominant ideology that has often shaped how politics and ideology is...
Mar 12, 2012 | Author - Lazar Puhalo, Author - Ron Dart
Stuart Murray's The Naked Anabaptist: The Bare Essentials of a Radical Faith (2010)Review by Ron DartThe main title is catchy, the subtitle alluring and inviting. What are naked Anabaptists and who does not want a radical faith? The invitation is there....
Feb 2, 2012 | Author - Ron Dart
He (Leacock) was more famous than this country — Don Herron It is the 100th anniversary in 2012 of one of the classics of Canadian literature. Many do not read Leacock’s Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town these days, but when the missive was published in 1912,...
