Review of Anna Yin’s ‘Seven Nights with the Chinese Zodiac’ – by Ron Dart
Anna Yin, Seven Nights With The Chinese Zodiac (Black Moss Press, 2015). Anna Yin is the First Poet Laureate (2015-2017) of Mississauga in Ontario. Seven Nights With The Chinese Zodiac is Anna Yin at her maturing best. Each poem, like a portal, invites the...
Review of Christopher Pramuk’s ‘Sophia: The Hidden Christ of Thomas Merton’ – by Andrew Louth
Sophia. The Hidden Christ of Thomas Merton, by Christopher Pramuk. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2009. Pp. xxxii + 322. 9 b/w illustrations. ISBN 978-0-814-5390-6. Hbk. $29.95. In the past I have read a good deal of Thomas Merton, but never really thought of him...
The Centurion’s Faith – Bob Ekblad
In my reading of Jesus’ many encounters in the Gospels I am continually moved by what these stories tell us about how God meets people. Throughout Luke’s Gospel we see Jesus ministering mostly in public non-religious places. He teaches beside the seashore, in cities,...
Was PM Harper a Tory? Terry Gavin on Ron Dart and the Red Tory tradition (2006)
Editor's comment: In 2006, the Georgia Straight published an article asking if PM Stephen Harper was properly termed a Tory. The article focused on Ron Dart's insights into the 'Red Tory' tradition. The article is an interesting read as a...
Why Genesis One Does Not Teach Creationism – Spencer Boersma
“One does not read in the Gospel that the Lord said: I will send you the Holy Spirit who will teach you about the course of the sun and moon. For He willed to make them Christians, not astronomers.” – Saint Augustine, regarding Genesis chapter one. In Genesis one we...
Eden: Physical Place or Spiritual State? Spencer Boersma
The truth of Genesis two, the truth of Eden is that we are all the man and the woman of this passage. We are all born into a state of innocence, and we all have the choice before us: to live life with God, eating of the tree of life, or to be our own god, eating of...
Unchristlike Images of God in Matt 22:1:14 – B. Jersak, B. Zahnd, D. Flood, A. Klager
Matt 22:1-14 Unchristlike Images of God in Matthean Parables A Mini-Minyan with Brad Jersak, Brian Zahnd, Derek Flood, Andrew Klager Introduction (Brad Jersak) I was recently invited to share thoughts and respond to questions about my book, A More...
Three Waymarks – Ron Dart
Our faith journey is often and necessarily so aided by waymarks, markings or cairns along the pathway of life. Such waymarks might be thinkers once dead but whose ideas live, creeds, communities, lectures and, more to the pertinent point, those we have interacted with...
Review of Four Feminist Works on C.S. Lewis by Monika Hilder — by Ron Dart
Monika B. Hilder, The Feminine Ethos in C.S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia (Peter Lang, 2012). Monika B. Hilder, The Gender Dance: Ironic Subversion in C.S. Lewis’s Cosmic Trilogy (Peter Lang, 2013). Monika B. Hilder, Surprised by the Feminine:...
Love For Enemies in the OT – Matt Lynch
It has become increasingly commonplace in popular theological works to draw a sharp contrast between Jesus’ teachings in the Sermon on the Mount and, well … the whole Old Testament. The most prominent verses cited as evidence are Jesus’ ‘you have heard it said...