Jun 9, 2006 | Author - Ron Dart, Book Reviews
There has been a great deal of interest, in the last decade, by many Christians, in returning to the Classic phase of the Christian Tradition. The Patristic heritage (of the Latin West and Greek East) is held high and warmly honoured and respected. This turn comes as...
Jun 9, 2006 | Author - Kevin Miller, Book Reviews
John G. Stackhouse, Jr., Editor (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2001) When an editor begins an anthology by saying he doesn’t agree with much of what is written in the essays that follow his preface, readers immediately suspect that they are in for a rough ride. But...
Jun 8, 2006 | Author - Ron Dart, Book Reviews
BEYOND BETHUNE: PEOPLE’S POETRY AND MILTON ACORN’S METAPHOR FOR THE CANADIAN FATE Terry Barker, Dewdney: The Canadian...
Jun 8, 2006 | Author - Wayne Northey, Book Reviews
The Fall of the Prison: Biblical Perspectives on Prison Abolition, Lee Griffith, Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1993. 258pp. by Wayne Northey “The gospel is profoundly scandalous, and until we hear at least a whisper of its scandal, we risk not hearing any...
Jun 8, 2006 | Author - Wayne Northey, Book Reviews
The Expanding Prison: The Crisis in Crime and Punishment and the Search for Alternatives by David Cayley (Anansi Press, 1998). The author writes of expanding prison growth: “I believe that this continuing increase presents a real threat to the decency and...
Jun 8, 2006 | Author - Wayne Northey, Book Reviews
It was thought by many, for years, that Mount Robson (3954 metres) was the reigning monarch of all the jutting rock peaks of BC mountains. But, in 1925, BC climbing legends, Don and Phyllis Munday, having climbed Mount Arrowsmith (near Port Alberni), descended,...