May 5, 2012 | Author - Ron Dart, Book Reviews
Anna Yin, Wings Toward Sunlight: Poems, 2011 We had the experience but missed the meaning. – T.S. Eliot There is poetry that speaks to the head but never touches the deeper recesses of the heart, and there is poetry that massages the heart but does...
May 5, 2012 | Author - Ron Dart, Book Reviews
Milton Acorn: In A Springtime Instant: Selected Poems, James Deahl (ed.), 2012. Milton Acorn (1923-1986) was the most dynamic, controversial and prophetic Canadian Anglican political poet in the latter half of the 20th century. Acorn was a poet who spoke to the people...
Apr 8, 2012 | Author - Ron Dart, Book Reviews
Review of Dennis Gruending, Pulpit and Politics: Competing Religious Ideologies in Canadian Public Life, 2011. By Ron Dart. I have taught Ideology and Politics for many years, and the dominant ideology that has often shaped how politics and ideology is...
Apr 4, 2012 | Book Reviews
Book Review by Henk Smidstra on Nicholas Wolterstorff’s book, Justice: rights and wrongs, Princeton University Press. 2008 I found this book by Nicholas Wolterstorff truly relevant in its discussion of the topic of discussion: justice, justice as inherent rights; it...
Jan 26, 2012 | Book Reviews
AN IMPOSSIBLE BIBLE? by Joe Beach I recently read a book that I just couldn’t put down. Book lovers know what I mean. You glance at a book, you pick it up, peruse it, start reading it, and simply cancel all other reading until you’ve finished....
Nov 26, 2011 | Author - Ron Dart, Book Reviews
Fr. Hildo Bos & Jim Forest (eds.), For the Peace from Above : An Orthodox Resource Book on War, Peace and Nationalism, 2011. My wife asked me a couple of weeks ago when we were on a retreat in the desert a leading question. ‘If I was on a...
