Jan 22, 2015 | Uncategorized
Harperism: How Stephen Harper and His Think Tank Colleagues Have Transformed Canada. Donald Gutstein. (Toronto, James Lorimer & Company Ltd. Publishers, 2014.) A review by Henk Smidstra. There is a saying that a frog sitting in a pot of water heating very...
Jan 15, 2015 | Uncategorized
A respectful debate on Christian just war vs Christian pacifism. Thanks to Azariah France-Williams, who attended the debate. Prof. Nigel Biggar, Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology at Christchurch College, Oxford, and author of 'In Defence of...
Jan 11, 2015 | Uncategorized
I was deeply troubled by news of this week’s killings of journalists at Charlie Hebdo, France’s beloved satirical newspaper, by two French Muslim brothers of Algerian descent, Chérif and Saïd Kouachi. I’ve been haunted by footage I saw of these gunmen’s...
Jan 9, 2015 | Uncategorized
NT Wright is one of those authors of whom I tell people “buy everything he writes”. Not necessarily because I agree with every assertion he makes, but the level of scholarship with which each topic he discusses is approached. Simply Good News is no...
Jan 1, 2015 | Uncategorized
Elias becomes his own wild bird, with God in the center, His own wide field which nobody owns, His own pattern, surrounding the Spirit ...
