Feb 22, 2016 | Author - Brad Jersak, Book Reviews
St SebastianSometimes, he found it difficultto dislodge the arrowspreferring to keep them therereverberating in silencealong with his invisible wounds. I recently became acquainted with the works of Egyptian poet, Yahia Lababidi. His sixth and largest book of...
Jan 27, 2016 | Book Reviews
There’s been a lot of recent discussion on the nature of Jesus’ atonement. All Christians universally affirm that Jesus’ death on the cross saved us from sin. But we debate exactly how his death brought about that salvation. Western Christianity has long been...
Jan 19, 2016 | Author - Brad Jersak, Book Reviews
Review of Lazar Puhalo’s Gehenna: The Nature of Hell, According to the Orthodox Christian Church (Dewdney: Synaxis Press, 2012), 204 pages. Available HERE. Eschatological judgment and reward has been back on the table for theological discussion in a renewed way over...
Jan 15, 2016 | Author - Ron Dart, Book Reviews
John Baldwin and Linda Bily, Soul of Wilderness: Mountain Journeys in Western BC and Alaska (Harbour Publishing, 2015). There has been an unfortunate yet understandable tendency within Canadian mountaineering literature and photography to frontstage the Rockies and...
Jan 5, 2016 | Author - Ron Dart, Book Reviews
Ashley John Moyse, Reading Karl Barth, Interrupting Moral Technique, Transforming Biomedical Ethics There are those who labour long and hard in the world of Barthian scholarship (disputing and debating how Barth is to be read and interpreted) but never,...
Dec 15, 2015 | Author - Ron Dart, Book Reviews
Andrew Klager, ed., From Suffering to Solidarity: The Historical Seeds of Mennonite Interreligious, Interethnic, and International Peacebuilding (Pickwick Publications, 2015) The publication of From Suffering to Solidarity is a must read plough to...
