Is Toryism Dead in Canada? Ron Dart
Ron Dart: Is Toryism Dead in Canada? The Red Tory Element in Canadian Conservatism
“Out the Embers” – OTC conversation (Jersak, Young, Fee, Murrell, MacMurray)
The Rich Man & Lazarus: Getting the Main Point – Fr Jonathan Tobias
Parables are stories The Parables of our Lord are the most beautiful and meaningful talks in history. They are matchless in their depth. While the great third-century theologian Origen and the fourteenth-century poet Dante said that there were four levels of...
Media Apartheid – From Ukraine to Iran to Palestine to Qatar – Ron Dart
The media has legitimately focused on the plight of women in the theocratic state of Iran and the aggressive nature of Russia in the tragic Russian-Ukrainian War over the last few months. I was on staff with Amnesty International in the 1980s (before I was hired at...
My Journey “Out of the Embers” – Nicky Martini
Bradley Jersak's Out of the Embers caught me by surprise. I thought my time to look back was done. At the beginning of this year, over a whole month, I experienced a creative miracle where, by the end, I knew God had healed my PTSD. Within the pages of...
Universal and Anti-universal Notes – Fr Jonathan Tobias
In the ongoing, too often overheated, discussion of Christian universalism, here are some notes that might be helpful, especially in avoiding unnecessary runs down the garden path. Universalism does not discount the possibility of hell -- just its co-eternity with...
Baby Hitler, Time Travel, and Retributive Justice – Jason Clark
Baby Hitler, Time Travel, and Retributive Justice(excerpt from Jason Clark, Leaving and Finding Jesus The other day, at a party, I played the time-travel game with friends, which eventually became an in-depth conversation about justice, as all time-travel games do....
Donald E. Wagner’s “Glory to God in the Lowest” – Review by Ron Dart
Journeys to an Unholy Land (Olive Branch Press, 2022). Review by Ron Dart The title of this timely, autobiographical, and not to be missed book tends to confront the reader with a challenge. There is a predictable tendency to think of “Glory to God in the Highest”...
Learning to Love as God Loves – Overcoming Fear & Racism – Felicia Murrell
Editor's Note: The following is a manuscript of Felicia Murrell's talk from the Open Table Event, in conversation with Wm. Paul Young. FELICIA MURRELL I want to begin by saying this is not an easy ask. For me, AND is the bridge to our re-turn, our homecoming,...
“Wait a minute…!” Clarence Jordan’s “Inconvenient Gospel” – Review by Bradley Jersak
“Wait a minute…!” Clarence Jordan’s “Inconvenient Gospel” Review by Bradley Jersak Clarence Jordan, The Inconvenient Gospel: A Southern Prophet Tackles War, Wealth, Race, and Religion (Plough Spiritual Guides: Backpack Classics, 2022). CLICK HERE TO READ A...
Andrew Kaethler’s “The Eschatological Person” – Review by Ron Dart
Andrew T.J. Kaethler, The Eschatological Person: Alexander Schmemann and Joseph Ratzinger in Dialogue (Cascade Books, Veritas Series, 2022) There is a tendency within the Orthodox clan to uncritically genuflect to the life and writings of Alexander Schmemann. There...