Dec 28, 2008 | Author - Ron Dart, Book Reviews
David J. Goa, A Regard for Creation: Collected Essays (Dewdney: Synaxis Press, 2008). It often takes a few decades for an ancient tradition such as Orthodoxy to fully root, then bear the full foliage and fruit of such a deep rooting. There is little doubt that with...
Oct 24, 2008 | Author - Brad Jersak, Book Reviews
Bob Ekblad, A New Christian Manifesto: Pledging Allegiance to the Kingdom of God, Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2008.Review by Brad JersakAfter my first encounters with the theo-praxis of Bob Ekblad, recounted so vividly in his previous work, Reading...
Sep 23, 2008 | Author - Wayne Northey, Book Reviews
Book Review of Compulsory Compassion: A Critique of Restorative Justice, Annalise Acorn, Vancouver: UBC Press, 2004, 207 pages. By Wayne Northey Introduction There is a longstanding difference in how to read the Gospels in relation to criminal...
Aug 3, 2008 | Book Reviews
Is a somewhat misleading title for this book that examines the core nature of God’s relationship to mankind. "Dare we" suggests that hope in God’s intent and power to save his creation should be exercised tentatively, furtively and only at great...
Jul 31, 2008 | Author - Ron Dart, Book Reviews
Review by Ron Dart Frank Schaeffer, Crazy for God: How I Grew Up as One of the Elect, Helped Found the Religious Right, and Lived to take all (or almost all) of it Back (New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2007). I lived in Switzerland from 1972-1973, and while I...
Jan 22, 2008 | Author - Brad Jersak, Book Reviews
After my review of Meg Tilly’s work, entitled “A Spirituality of Courage and Hope,” she graciously responded to some questions that I hadn’t seen others pursue. Herein is the interview, along with a review of Porcupine written by my son, Dominic, who is 11 years old,...
