Sep 2, 2022 | Author - Ron Dart, Book Reviews
Wagner's "Ring of the Nibelung" is a cycle of four operas that tell the story of the hero Siegfried and a magic ring. These four operas are The Rhine Gold, The Valkyrie, Siegfried, and Twilight of the Gods. Borrowing from German and Norse tales, poems,...
Aug 27, 2022 | Author - Brad Jersak, Book Reviews
AIDEN KIMEL, DESTINED FOR JOY Foreword by Bradley Jersak, Ph.D. With great joy, I have for a decade followed Fr. Aiden Kimel as he forged a path of inquiry that unveiled answers, advanced an exploration that yielded discovery, and posited a hope that became deep...
Aug 27, 2022 | Author - Ron Dart, Book Reviews
Monika B. Hilder, Letters to Annie: A Grandmother’s Dreams of Fairy Tale Princesses, Princes, & Happily Ever After (FriesenPress, 2022). Review by Ron Dart “And I must say, girl, I can’t think of a more exciting field of study than the one of theology,...
Jun 24, 2022 | Author - Ron Dart, Book Reviews
David M. Odorisio (ed.), Merton and Hinduism: The Yoga of the Heart, Fons Vitae, 2021. Thomas Merton, like the proverbial fox, rambled across much terrain and in such roaming saw and revealed much in a variety of challenging areas. Merton was not the only Roman...
May 17, 2022 | Author - Felicia Murrell, Book Reviews
In crafting This Here Flesh, Cole Arthur Riley says she knew she wanted the book to end at liberation. And that she wanted to start at dignity, to ground people in this belief that this is a journey, something that feels most true about the black origin....
Apr 21, 2022 | Author - Brad Jersak, Book Reviews
David Bentley Hart, YOU ARE GODS: On Nature and Supernature (Univ. of Notre Dame Press, 2022) – Reflection by Bradley Jersak Based solely on repetition in every one of David Bentley Hart’s books, articles, lectures, and podcasts, his most scathing...