Mar 7, 2010 | Author - Ron Dart
“To Buber, therefore, Judaism is coincident with a vital prophetic tradition.” Hans Urs Von Balthsar Martin Buber and Christianity (p.36)
The Jewish Zionist tradition took two different paths within the early years of...
Feb 28, 2010 | Author - Ron Dart, Book Reviews
Nur Masalha, The Bible and Zionism: Invented Traditions, Archeology and Post-Colonialism in Israel-Palestine (London: Zed Books, 2007), There are plenty of books that proudly fly the Jewish and Christian Zionist flags. There are a variety of paths to...
Feb 23, 2010 | Author - Ron Dart
The Red and Green Pony is one of the most important Canadian political parables, and it was written in the 1950s by Milton Acorn. The tale is a well-told political fable that records and anticipates much that was about to unfold in the latter half of the...
Feb 1, 2010 | Author - Ron Dart
You could go for years without seeing him (Acorn), yet he’d always be there somehow, a great craggy presence at the back of your mind, a gnarled tree in silhouette on the horizon.Gwendolyn MacEwenAcorn is an affirmative voice, a gentleness...
Jan 2, 2010 | Author - Ron Dart
Milton Acorn died in 1986, and a year after his death, some of the finest poets in Canada contributed to a collection to honour the hard life and vividpersonal and political poetry of Acorn; the collection was called The Northern Red Oak. Fred Cogswell...
Jan 1, 2010 | Author - Ron Dart
The Acorn picture I want to convey is of a maverick and outsider, a man who speaks out at the wrong...
