Jun 8, 2006 | Author - Ron Dart
“East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet.” —Rudyard Kipling The 1960s was a period of time in which many important ideas were being questioned, many time tried ways doubted and many new ideas brought to front stage. Three...
Jun 8, 2006 | Author - Ron Dart
The publication of Robert Bolt’s play, A Man for all Seasons (1960), did much to further an interest in the admirable life of Thomas More. The movie, A Man for all Seasons, won the Best Picture as an Academy Award Winner in 1966. Thomas More, in the play and movie, is...
Jun 8, 2006 | Author - Ron Dart
“Superficiality is the curse of our age. The doctrine of instant satisfaction is a primary spiritual problem. The desperate need today is not for a greater number of intelligent people, or gifted people, but for deep people.”—Richard Foster The obstinate fact that so...
Jun 8, 2006 | Author - Ron Dart
This article is an excerpt from Ron Dart’s book The Beatitudes: When Peak Meets Valley (Fresh Wind Press, 2005). Interest in Gnosticism has been growing clear and steady since World War II. A variety of reasons may be given for this, but the reality cannot be...
Jun 8, 2006 | Author - Ron Dart
Run to the mountain: Shed those scales on your eyes That hinder you from seeing God. –Dante, Purgatorio, II, 7 We had the experience but missed the meaning –T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets, (The Dry Salvages) Today I climbed the highest mountain in this...
Jun 8, 2006 | Author - Ron Dart
“Judged in terms of the power, range, novelty, and influence of his thought, Noam Chomsky is arguably the most important intellectual alive.”—The New York Times “Chomsky…. is a major scholarly resource. Not to have read (him) is to court genuine ignorance.”—The Nation...
