Review of Lazar Puhalo’s ‘Gehenna: The Nature of Hell, According to the Orthodox Christian Church’ – by Brad Jersak
Review of Lazar Puhalo’s Gehenna: The Nature of Hell, According to the Orthodox Christian Church (Dewdney: Synaxis Press, 2012), 204 pages. Available HERE. Eschatological judgment and reward has been back on the table for theological discussion in a renewed way over...
Satan’s Foundational Lie: “… As God ‘knowing’ good and evil” – Richard Murray
Here is the fundamental Satanic lie all men have subconsciously internalized--that God is BOTH good AND evil, BOTH love AND wrath, BOTH light AND dark, BOTH healer AND afflicter. "And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: for God doth know...
Leaving Grape Soda Christianity – Excerpt from Brian Zahnd’s ‘Water to Wine’
Brian Zahnd, Water to Wine (2016) http://www.amazon.com/Water-Wine-Some-My-Story/dp/0692569189 I once heard an Italian winemaker say that to produce good wine the grapes must struggle, they must suffer. The taste of good wine is the taste of...
George Grant and Robert Crouse: Prophetic Tories – Ron Dart
Robert D. Crouse represents that paradigm of those catholic of scholars, whose investigations of the Christian tradition have consistently shown courageous sensitivity to its complex origins and trajectories from late antiquity to our...
Review of Baldwin & Bily’s ‘Soul of the Wilderness’ – by Ron Dart
John Baldwin and Linda Bily, Soul of Wilderness: Mountain Journeys in Western BC and Alaska (Harbour Publishing, 2015). There has been an unfortunate yet understandable tendency within Canadian mountaineering literature and photography to frontstage the Rockies and...
Love is the Glue – Lazar Puhalo
Love is the glue that holds the universe together. This is reflected in our hymnology, "Christ the word, the wisdom and the power of God that creates and sustains all things." We can assimilate such a concept as the basis of our spiritual life, and rise above the...
Regret: The Silent Killer – Brad Jersak
Various diseases have been labeled “the silent killer.” For example, “hypertension” is called the silent killer because it increases the risk of heart disease and strokes, two of the top causes of death in America. Other emotional and spiritual diseases could compete...
On the Kingdom of God and Atonement – Lucy Peppiatt
Lucy Peppiatt Crawley We all have a story about what the cross means for us personally and that’s a good thing. It will be our story. It will be how we know and came to know God. But it will only be one little part of a big picture of everything that God has achieved...
Nicolas Henin, held captive by Isis for 10 months says how they can be defeated
Review of Ashley John Moyse’s ‘Reading Karl Barth, Interrupting Moral Technique, Transforming Biomedical Ethics’ – by Ron Dart
Ashley John Moyse, Reading Karl Barth, Interrupting Moral Technique, Transforming Biomedical Ethics There are those who labour long and hard in the world of Barthian scholarship (disputing and debating how Barth is to be read and interpreted) but never,...