Jun 19, 2021 | Author - Brad Jersak, Book Reviews
What Is God Like? story by Rachel Held Evans and Matthew Paul Turner illustrated by Ying Hui Tan My response to this children's book is simple: Thank you. Buy it for the children in your life. My response to certain critics: Some critics of...
May 29, 2021 | Author - Ron Dart, Book Reviews
Ron Dart with Jim Forest Jim Forest’s Eyes of Compassion: Learning From Thich Nhat Hanh Orbis Books, 2021 Review by Ron Dart When I was working for Amnesty International in the 1980s, I began a correspondence with Jim Forest (who was working for Fellowship of...
Mar 29, 2021 | Author - Brad Jersak, Book Reviews
What kind of book is the Bible? How should we read and interpret the Bible?How should we tell the Bible’s story with our words and our lives? Pre-order now on Amazon These are the questions at the heart of this marvelous book by Dr. Brad Jersak. (A More...
Mar 9, 2021 | Book Reviews
Lynn H. Cohick and Amy Brown Hughes, Christian Women in the Patristic World: Their Influence, Authority, and Legacy in the Second through Fifth Centuries (Ada, MI: Baker Academic, 2017). One theme that stands out in Cohick & Hughes’...
Nov 12, 2020 | Author - Brad Jersak, Book Reviews
“The Divine Life” My full immersion into the Beatitudes as a daily practice began on the hiking trails of the North Cascades, where my mentor Ron Dart led me “up on a mountain, me down, opened his mouth and taught me, saying” (Matt. 5:1-2), The Divine Life is for...
Oct 23, 2020 | Author - Ron Dart, Book Reviews
Jim Forest, Writing Straight with Crooked Lines: A Memoir (Orbis Books, 2020). I first met Jim Forest in the mid-1980s when he was still general secretary of the International Fellowship of Reconciliation (IFOR) and I was on staff with Amnesty International. We met,...
