Sep 5, 2022 | Author - Ron Dart, Book Reviews
Video 1 – THE RINGS OF TOLKIEN & WAGNER – Similarities & Differences Ron Dart discusses the common themes shared by Richard Wagner's Opera, "The Ring of Nibelung" and J.R.R. Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings." Ron notes the...
Sep 2, 2022 | Author - Ron Dart, Book Reviews
Wagner's "Ring of the Nibelung" is a cycle of four operas that tell the story of the hero Siegfried and a magic ring. In this third session on Wagner's "The Ring of the Nibelung, Ron Dart completes his talk on "The Rhinegold" (the...
Sep 2, 2022 | Author - Ron Dart, Book Reviews
Wagner's "Ring of the Nibelung" is a cycle of four operas that tell the story of the hero Siegfried and a magic ring. These four operas are The Rhine Gold, The Valkyrie, Siegfried, and Twilight of the Gods. Borrowing from German and Norse tales, poems,...
Aug 27, 2022 | Author - Ron Dart, Book Reviews
Monika B. Hilder, Letters to Annie: A Grandmother’s Dreams of Fairy Tale Princesses, Princes, & Happily Ever After (FriesenPress, 2022). Review by Ron Dart “And I must say, girl, I can’t think of a more exciting field of study than the one of theology,...
Jun 24, 2022 | Author - Ron Dart, Book Reviews
David M. Odorisio (ed.), Merton and Hinduism: The Yoga of the Heart, Fons Vitae, 2021. Thomas Merton, like the proverbial fox, rambled across much terrain and in such roaming saw and revealed much in a variety of challenging areas. Merton was not the only Roman...
