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)
Science and Orthodoxy – Lazar Puhalo
Reality at all levels and in every dimension is a mystery. I will not suggest that the world which we experience with our own senses is not reality; nevertheless, what we perceive is the surface of reality, which is penetrated only with great effort over time. The...
Imagining a Future for Israel / Palestine – with Jeff Halper
Israel at a Crossroad: Where To From Here? with Jeff Halper
David Cayley of CBC Ideas for over 30 years Presents… – by Wayne Northey
First posted HERE (Wayne Northey's home page). Greetings all. About 25 years ago, I wrote to David Cayley in response to a CBC Ideas series broadcast on the program by that name. (CBC is Canada’s public broadcasting network). It was a series of interviews...
Politics and Religion in the Thought of Ivan Illich – David Cayley
This paper was prepared for a symposium held at the Oakland High School for the Arts under the auspices of California Governor Jerry Brown in the summer of 2013. The occasion was the publication of Beyond Economics and Ecology, a collection of...
Is Sacramentalism the Answer to Secularism? – D.L. Jones
The Eighth Day Institute recently held their annual symposium in Wichita, Kansas on the topic - Whatever Happened to Wonder? The Recovery of Mystery in Secular Age. Dr. James K.A. Smith and Rod Dreher were two of the invited speakers at this conference. It was a...
Pure Act of Being – Hymn and Commentary by Martin Little
Hymn: Pure Act of Being Pure act of Being: our Lord the TranscendentImagination spills forth from your handsPure act of working your joy to fulfilment:Breathing your image in woman and man. Celestial poetry of cosmos and cradleTransposing eternity’s rhythm and rhyme...
Review of Donald Gutstein’s ‘Harperism’ – by Henry Smidstra
Harperism: How Stephen Harper and His Think Tank Colleagues Have Transformed Canada. Donald Gutstein. (Toronto, James Lorimer & Company Ltd. Publishers, 2014.) A review by Henk Smidstra. There is a saying that a frog sitting in a pot of water heating very...
Reviews of W.T. Cavanaugh’s ‘The Myth of Religious Violence’ and ‘Migrations of the Holy’ – by Wayne Northey
Book Review of Migrations of the Holy: God, State, and the Political Meaning of the Church, William T. Cavanaugh, Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2011, 200 pages. My thanks to Oxford University Press for a review copy of the first book, and to Eerdmans for a review copy...
Who Would Jesus Shoot? Debate on Just War vs. Nonviolence
A respectful debate on Christian just war vs Christian pacifism. Thanks to Azariah France-Williams, who attended the debate. https://soundcloud.com/bloomsbury-1/who-would-jesus-shoot Prof. Nigel Biggar, Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology at...