Jun 8, 2006 | Author - Ron Dart
High Tory Nationalist Meets Tory Comprador George Grant “has been called Canada’s greatest political philosopher,” and Clark Pinnock has been called “perhaps the most significant evangelical theologian of the last half of the twentieth century.” George Grant was also...
Jun 8, 2006 | Author - Ron Dart
The Boston Globe once called T.S. Eliot “the most important English speaking poet and critic of the 20th century.” There is no doubt that Eliot was a major presence on the stage of 20th century literary, religious, political, and intellectual life. Eliot had an...
Jun 8, 2006 | Author - Ron Dart
It is 50 years this autumn (October 13, 1955) since the Bop and Beat poets of the East Coast (Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg) and the Ecological Beat poets of the West Coast (Kenneth Rexroth, Gary Snyder, Philip Whalen) met at Six Gallery in San Francisco. John Suiter,...
Jun 8, 2006 | Author - Ron Dart, Book Reviews
BEYOND BETHUNE: PEOPLE’S POETRY AND MILTON ACORN’S METAPHOR FOR THE CANADIAN FATE Terry Barker, Dewdney: The Canadian...
Jun 8, 2006 | Author - Ron Dart
What has Easter to do with politics? What has the church to do with the state? What has the sacred to do with the secular? What has justice and peace to do with empires? What has Canada to do with the USA? The Christian understanding of Easter has its roots in...
Jun 8, 2006 | Author - Ron Dart
“Phyl climbed close to one hundred mountains and made over thirty first ascents, many times being the first woman to reach the summit.” —Phyllis Munday: Mountaineer (2002) p.135 When Phyllis Munday (1894-1990) left this fragile earth our island home, the first...