Francis Bacon’s Five Holy Wars – Ron Dart
Ron Dart explores Francis Bacon's "An Advertisement Touching a Holy War" (edited with commentary by Laurence Lampert)
“Loving Our Enemies: Reflections on the Hardest Commandment”: Jim Forest’s Much Needed Meditation on a Shamefully Neglected Teaching — By Andrew Klager
Forest, Jim. Loving Our Enemies: Reflections on the Hardest Commandment. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Press, 2014. ISBN: 978-1-62698-090-7 I first met Jim Forest -- author of Loving Our Enemies: Reflections on the Hardest Commandment (Orbis, 2014) --...
Abraham Lincoln: A “None” Before His Time – Monte Wolverton
"There was the strangest combination of church influence against me. ... My wife had some relations in the Presbyterian churches, and some in the Episcopal churches; and therefore, wherever it would tell, I was set down as either one or the other, while it was...
Chester Ronning Centre presents Fr. Cyril Hovorun on Nationalism / David Goa and F. Volker Greifenhagen on Engaging Islam
Fr. Cyril Hovorun is a scholar in Patristic and Political Theology at Yale University, and an Eastern Orthodox Priest. He will be presenting lectures this week at the University of the Fraser Valley in Abbotsford, BC (and elsewhere). 23 March,...
Can we ‘make’ God love us more or less? – Brad Jersak
"We need to let it soak in that there is nothing we can do to make God love us more…and nothing we can do to make God love us less." - Philip Yancey "We all need to know that God does not love us because we are good; God loves us because God is...
ON Scripture: Ferguson & Forgiveness (Jer. 31:31-34) – Walter Brueggemann
ON THE STREET: RACE IN AMERICA Lent is our season of honesty. It is a time when we may break out of our illusions to face the reality of our life in preparation for Easter, a radical new beginning. When, through this illusion breaking homework, we connect with reality...
Brian Zahnd – The Crucified God
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Review of John Dominic Crossan’s ‘How to Read the Bible and Still be a Christian’ – by Caleb Miller
To many, John Dominic (Dom) Crossan might not be a household name, something that must be remedied if we are ever to recover a vision of the “real” God. Crossan is one of those scholars whose thinking and working through of ancient texts constantly stretches and moves...
Reinhold Messner and the Messner Mountain Museum (MMM) – Ron Dart
Messner is not only the greatest high-altitude mountaineer the world has ever known; he is probably the best it will ever know. Time Reinhold Messner is considered by many to be one of the most significant mountaineers of the 20th century...
St. Patrick: the Holy Servant Boy – Steve Bell with Malcolm Guite
The stories of St. Patrick are wild, fanciful and mostly unsubstantiated. As with the lives of many early saints, the lore compared to the actual lives lived may well be very distant cousins. But that doesn’t mean the tales can’t be received as inspired with truth....
Why Did Jesus Die? Series by Bruxy Cavey
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