Jun 26, 2018 | Author - Ron Dart, Book Reviews
Review of Stan Paterson’s, ICE MAN: The Making of a Glaciologist. Papyngay Press, Oregon, 2013. Review by Ron Dart I have had an abiding interest in glacier trekking and glaciers for many a decade. Many tend to see the multiple receding and melting...
Jun 12, 2018 | Author - Ron Dart, Book Reviews
Pat Morrow, Jeremy Schmidt, Art Twomey, Searching for Tao Canyon (Rocky Mountain Books Ltd., 2018). “The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders.” –Edward Abbey My wife (Karin) and I have spent some challenging moments in slot canyons,...
May 4, 2018 | Author - Brad Jersak, Book Reviews
Gregory of Nyssa reads the Psalms soteriologically. Abridged excerpt from Ronald E. Heine, Gregory of Nyssa’s Treatise on the Inscriptions of the Psalms (Oxford, 1995), 43. [note: emphases and brackets mine] For Gregory of Nyssa, the skopoV[aim] of the Psalter...
May 1, 2018 | Author - Ron Dart, Book Reviews
Jeffers room at Deetjen’s Inn in Big Sur Review of James Karman, Robinson Jeffers: Poet and Prophet (Stanford University Press, 2015). Lee Masters, Frost and Robinson Jeffers all really have something to say and some real art. – C.S. Lewis, Letter to...
Apr 5, 2018 | Author - Ron Dart, Book Reviews
Naim Stifan Ateek, A Palestinian Theology of Liberation: The Bible, Justice, and the Palestine-Israel Conflict (Orbis Books, 2017). It was quite apt and appropriate that A Palestinian Theology of Liberation was published in 2017, very much anticipating 2018 as...
Mar 31, 2018 | Author - Ron Dart, Book Reviews
Stanley Hauerwas recently gave the Laing lectures at Regent College in Vancouver, BC. Prof Ron Dart (UFV) has previously reviewed both Hauerwas' books and thoughts. Two of these posts warrant republishing for current reflection. Click on the following links to...
