May 30, 2012 | Book Reviews
The Spirituality of John Cassian was written by Ron Samuel Dart, an Anglican layman from Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada. Dart’s 2006 book is a published rework of his Master’s thesis, earned from Regent College in 1981. (After his first M.A. Dart...
May 17, 2012 | Book Reviews
F.S. Michaels’ book, Monoculture: How One Story is Changing Everything, is a small, very accessible, yet profoundly moving description of the impact of the ascendancy of the Economic Story over other stories we have always taken for granted in our...
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...
