Mar 20, 2018 | Author - Ron Dart, Book Reviews
Christ Wisdom: Spiritual Practice in the Beatitudes & the Lord’s Prayer. Christopher Page. Toronto: Path Books, 2004. 134 p. ISBN 1-55126-420-X There is and has been a growing interest in the Wisdom Traditions from most of the major and minor religions for...
Mar 11, 2018 | Author - Ron Dart, Book Reviews
In the beginning was the myth. —1st sentence, Peter Camenzind When they had finished eating, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon son of John, do you truly love me more than these?” “Yes, Lord”, he said, “you know that I love you.” Jesus said,...
Mar 6, 2018 | Author - Ron Dart, Book Reviews
Evelyn Underhill's Prayer Book Edited by Robyn Wrigley-Carr Foreward by Eugene Peterson SPCK: London, 2018 Evelyn Underhill was, in many ways, the Thomas Merton of the 1st half of the 20th century, and the recent publication of her "Prayer...
Feb 22, 2018 | Author - Ron Dart, Book Reviews
Review of Jordan Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos (2018) – by Ron Dart From now on, everybody stands on his own feet “Marxism and Monastic...
Feb 3, 2018 | Author - Brad Jersak, Author - Ron Dart, Book Reviews
“Erasmus was too good a humanist to live only in the past.” – P.S. Allen In these days of the 500th anniversary of Luther’s Wittenburg manifesto and the strange opposition between Christianity and humanism, one can only wonder how...
Jan 26, 2018 | Author - Ron Dart, Book Reviews
Jim Forest, At Play in the Lions’ Den: A Biography and Memoir of Daniel Berrigan (Orbis Books, 2017). The publication of At Play in the Lions’ Den brings to a fine and fit close a trilogy of biographies by Jim Forest, the previous biographical page-turners about...