3 Books on GRATITUDE – Reviews by Wayne Northey
One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to LIVE FULLY Right Where You Are, Ann Voskamp, Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2010, 237 pp; Radical Gratitude, Mary Jo Leddy, Maryknoll: Orbis, 2002, 182 pp; The Gift of Thanks: The Roots, Persistence, and Paradoxical Meanings of a Social Ritual,...
Thomas Merton: New Camaldoli and Redwoods – Ron Dart
I. Noonday Demons and Hermitages Most on the Thomas Merton Society Canada (TMSC) national executive had planned on doing a week retreat at Redwoods Monastery (where Merton twice visited in May & October 1968) the week...
Review of Brian Gregor’s ‘Philosophical Anthropology of the Cross’ by Wayne Northey
Book Review of: A Philosophical Anthropology of the Cross: The Cruciform Self, Brian Gregor, Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2013, 261 pp. What caught my eye in deciding to ask the publisher for a review copy was the subtitle. I received more...
Racism and ‘the Militsia’ – Lazar Puhalo
Like it or not, racism is voluminous, virulent and violent in America today. Not only that, but America is rapidly descending into a harsh police state in which police forces are equipped, not as normal policing agencies, but as full armed militias. Recalling that, in...
“I Perceive You are a Prophet”: Charisma to Cockburn, Shenanigans & Sages – B Jersak
We mustn’t discard God’s genuine gift out of spite for the counterfeit. … who are the prophets and how do we identify them? If prophecy doesn’t look like trumpeting Trump or playing presidential roulette, then what? How do they function and what are they saying?
Fully Revealed in Christ – Greg Boyd
Another "Work of the People" video, featuring Greg Boyd On Reading the OT through the lens of the Cross.
Los Alamos: We Have Become Death – Brian Zahnd
Seventy summers ago in a New Mexico desert we crossed a dark threshold when we created the capacity for our own annihilation. A generation earlier Albert Einstein had perceived something elemental about the nature of Creation: Energy equals mass times the speed...
Us and Them: A Provocation – Azariah France-Williams
"Us and Them" is a short story designed to provoke thought and conversation. It describes an imagined future where outer space is explored and the spaces between people and things is redefined. Questions to ponder: "Homeless Romantic" by...
Why God Is Up and Some Mennonites are Becoming Inclusive – Bruce Hiebert
Ethicists have known for centuries human beings have radically different views of morality. The general discussion has been over which is the “one-true” morality and which are the “false” moralities, and then how to rationally use the one “true” morality to solve all ethical conundrums.
I Am Constantine Too — By Andrew Klager
How Christians should perceive the early 4th-century Roman emperor, Constantine—his role and legacy, whether harmful or beneficial—is a vexing question, one that has admittedly caused for me, as an Orthodox Christian and historian of Christianity, much...