Jun 8, 2006 | Author - Ron Dart
DESOLATION PEAK: LOOKING NORTH LOOKING 1 On the Road Those afternoons, those lazy afternoons, when I used to sit, or lie down, on Desolation Peak, sometimes on the Alpine grass, hundreds of miles of snow-covered rock all around, looming Mount Hozomeen on my north,...
Jun 8, 2006 | Author - Ron Dart
“What the world needs from the church is not busy people but deep people.”—Richard Foster “Take away the life lie of the average person, and you take away their happiness.”—Henrik Ibsen There has been a growing interest, in the last few decades, in the contemplative...
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...
