Wrestling with Jacob: the Divine Dilemma – Part 2 Brad Jersak
Wrestling with Jacob: the Divine Dilemma – Part 1 Ron Dart
Review of Ron Dart (editor)’s ‘White Gulls & Wild Birds – by Brad Jersak
Ron Dart, ed., White Gulls & Wild Birds: Essays on C.S. Lewis, Inklings and Friends & Thomas Merton (Abbotsford: St Macrina Press, 2015). 85 pgs. Back cover description: Books on C.S. Lewis, the Inklings, and Thomas Merton are a rare breed. This book brings...
Review of Doug Frank’s “A Gentler God” – by Wayne Northey
n the Introduction, author Doug Frank describes a billboard, erected doubtless by an “evangelical” Christian, that reads “TRUST JESUS!” Frank imagines another a mile further down the road, that reads, “OR ELSE!” These capture something quintessential about evangelical belief and tone, the author, an evangelical Christian himself, claims.
Review of Brian Zahnd’s ‘Farewell to Mars’ – by Wayne Northey
The author not only believes in Jesus in an “orthodox” way, he believes in Jesus’ ideas in a “radical” way. For that is who Jesus is, when it comes to the political: radical. When we fail at embracing Jesus’ political ideas, we inevitably recruit him in support of the (national) status quo. The author claims this has plagued the church since the fourth century. The church forever (almost) has separated Jesus from his ideas.
The Show Must Go On – Azariah France-Williams
A Short Story of prayer, pain and how the show must go on.
“Perichoresis and the Personal Experience of Kenosis” Aimilianos of Simonpetra
Excerpt from Aimilianos of Simonpetra, The Way of the Spirit (Athens: Indiktos, 2009), 32-39 Knowledge of God is something I acquire through possession, through ownership: it is something that belongs to me. It is a knowledge based on communion of the heart and...
The ‘No True Scotsman’ Fallacy – ‘No True Evangelical’ – Brad Jersak
When bombarded with a new (to me) idea via independent sources in less than 48 hours, I tend to do a double-take. I wonder if the multiplied coincidences might be providential winks from God, calling me to pay attention. Maybe. Or maybe not. But I pay attention...
Getting the Enemy Right – Walter Thiessen
It seems to me that if we want to find any passion and determination inside of ourselves (collectively or individually), we need to have some clear and shared sense of which enemy we are really wanting to fight. If we can find a common enemy that crosses political (or...
Review of Johann Hari’s ‘Chasing the Scream’ — by Wayne Northey
Book Review of Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs, Johann Hari, New York: Bloomsbury, 2015, 389 pp. The author is an established British journalist. In the “Introduction” he explains that his research took him “across nine countries and...