Feb 24, 2009 | Author - Ron Dart
It is almost twenty-five years ago that I was writing a doctoral thesis on Martin Buber (1878-1965). There is little doubt that Buber was one of the most influential Jews of the 20th century. More than 2000 people turned up for his funeral. Buber was a leading...
Feb 18, 2009 | Author - Ron Dart
It is a rare day, indeed, when C.S. Lewis (1898-1963) and Thomas Merton (1915-1968) are breathed in the same breath. There are many who bow low to Lewis, and many others genuflect to Merton. Both men, for different reasons, have an ample following. Is it even possible...
Jan 29, 2009 | Author - Ron Dart
It has been impossible to ignore the wanton violence in the Gaza in the last few weeks. How does the contemporary Jewish state justify its treatment of the Palestinians? The Jewish Tradition is complex, but the modern secular state of Israel should not be equated, as...
Dec 28, 2008 | Author - Ron Dart, Book Reviews
David J. Goa, A Regard for Creation: Collected Essays (Dewdney: Synaxis Press, 2008). It often takes a few decades for an ancient tradition such as Orthodoxy to fully root, then bear the full foliage and fruit of such a deep rooting. There is little doubt that with...
Dec 21, 2008 | Author - Ron Dart
But there are remnants left around me….very strange remnants…in this case the Anglican church which has in it some of the ancient truth and therefore I will live within it. — George Grant (CBC interview between George Grant-Adrienne Clarkson: June 1966) I I...
Oct 9, 2008 | Author - Ron Dart
Merton grew and developed over the years, in an interior sense, more deeply than anyone I know, and came to be recognized as the leading mystical writer in the English-speaking world. Robert Giroux I September 18/Eagle River Alaska-the Convent of the...
