Response to Ron Dart’s ‘Keepers of the Flame’ – by Brad Jersak
It may seem redundant to follow up Robert Williams' fine review of Keepers of the Flame (below), but having recently completed three years of Grantean studies under Dart's supervision, I would like to voice my own response while the experience is...
Blessed Bewilderment – by Corrie Block
Blessed Bewilderment Thereforever I bewildered of the answer unfulfillered To the question never nearer near to me than to my dearer Answer there presented me the clever never foolery The key to meaning's door betrayed me never near to thee it bade me Yet...
Lenten Scripture Reading Guide – Brian Zahnd
Lent is a time for us to revisit, recall, retell, relive Jesus’ journey to Jerusalem and especially his suffering and death. I would like to share with you the scripture reading guide I’ll be following during Lent. Read it slow and in a contemplative manner; try to...
Praise for the Master – Laura Merzig Fabrycky
TUESDAY, MAY 4, 2010Amman, Jordan© Laura Merzig FabryckyPraise for the MasterYou, the Storyteller!You, the Poet!Great crafter of beauty and intrigue and the framing of images before the mind's eye of the awake and the...
Hegemony by Foster Stuart
Hegemony by Foster Stuart The term, “hegemony” is used in at least two main ways: 1) as a more or less neutral term describing a geo-political state of affairs and 2) as a more loaded term, referring to the domination of democratic-capitalism in the twentieth-century....
Failing in Wartime – Laura Merzig Fabrycky
MONDAY, MAY 10, 2010Amman, Jordan© Laura Merzig Fabrycky Failing in Wartime It has never not been wartime.They have always been dying andgrieving—deep,rib-cage-gasps of lament.And I have been idle at my computer,checking my Facebook account forthe latest distraction...
Editorial by Ron Dart – Schism on Steroids: Reformed vs Emergent Evangelicalism
1. The Reformed-Evangelical Sanhedrin It is quite impossible to reduce the reformed and evangelical traditions to a homogenous grouping, but there are dominant tendencies within such a family that have shaped and defined the tradition. It is these dominant...
Praise for the Master – Laura Merzig Fabrycky
TUESDAY, MAY 4, 2010Amman, Jordan© Laura Merzig FabryckyPraise for the MasterYou, the Storyteller!You, the Poet!Great crafter of beauty and intrigue and the framing of images before the mind's eye of the awake and the alive, or the awakening and the enlivening or...
Milton Acorn and Marya Fiamengo – Literary Red Tories – with Ron Dart
Ron Dart’s ‘Keepers of the Flame’ – Review by Lazar Puhalo
The most firmly Canadian cultural, social and political tradition is Red Toryism. With deep spiritual and political roots in the development of the Confederation, the Red Tory factor was at the root of commonweal over the radical individualism that shaped the republic...