Jul 14, 2011 | Author - Brad Jersak, Book Reviews
Nearly two decades in the works, John Van Vloten’s The Unlikely Alchemist has finally hit bookshelves. In short, this is a very well written piece of children’s fantasy literature. Readers who watch for quality work in the genre of Lewis’ The Lion, the Witch and...
Jul 9, 2011 | Book Reviews
"Come Out My People!": God's Call out of Empire and Beyond by Wes Howard-Brook (Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, 2010) xvii, 525 pp, $30 USD. A review by John Dear, S.J. A year ago, I spent ten days staying at Tahrir Square in Cairo, marching with...
Jun 14, 2011 | Author - Ron Dart, Book Reviews
I was in my 20s in the 1970s and eager to know, in a more meaningful way, what theology as wisdom, as insight, as a transformative journey was all about. I had studied a great deal of biblical, historic, systematic and confessional theology in England and Switzerland...
May 1, 2011 | Author - Ron Dart, Book Reviews
Hans Boersma, Heavenly Participation: The Weaving of a Sacramental Tapestry, Eerdman’s Publishing 2011. Hans Boersma has done it again. Heavenly Participation is, in many ways, a compact, succinct and incisive synthesis of Boersma’s earlier books,...
Mar 24, 2011 | Author - Ron Dart, Book Reviews
Review: Compassionate Fire: The Letters of Thomas Merton & Catherine de Hueck Doherty (Indiana: Ave Maria Press, 2009) ed. Robert Wild. I owe much to Catherine Thomas Merton Father Louis, in some strange mysterious way I never...
Mar 20, 2011 | Author - Brad Jersak, Book Reviews
Review I've just finished reading At Home With Andre and Simone Weil. This heart-felt little work allows readers a personal glimpse into the family life and history of the sibling wonders, Andre and Simone Weil. Andre has been called the twentieth century’s...
