Julia Haslett’s ‘An Encounter with Simone Weil’ – Review by Bethany Swallow
Simone Weil, a French-woman born in the twentieth century remains a hidden treasure among many philosophers of her time. Her works, published after her death, contain jewels of contemplative, spiritual, pedagogical and political insights. More recently, Weil has...
Ron Dart’s ‘The Spirituality of John Cassian’ – Reflections by Denys Scully
The Spirituality of John Cassian was written by Ron Samuel Dart, an Anglican layman from Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada. Dart’s 2006 book is a published rework of his Master’s thesis, earned from Regent College in 1981. (After his first M.A. Dart...
Psalm 2 — A Sermon by Josh Giesbrecht
Psalm 2 The Reign of the LORD’S Anointed. 1 Why are the nations in an uproar And the peoples devising a vain thing? 2 The kings of the earth take their stand And the rulers take counsel together Against the LORD and against His Anointed, saying, 3 “Let us tear...
How One Book Can Change Our Contemplative Posture in the World — Review by Jeff Imbach
F.S. Michaels’ book, Monoculture: How One Story is Changing Everything, is a small, very accessible, yet profoundly moving description of the impact of the ascendancy of the Economic Story over other stories we have always taken for granted in our...
Eye-Deep in Lies — Brian Zahnd
Eye-Deep In Liesby Blindman At The Gate Why is it that if we dare to envision a world without war(A hope offered humanity by the prophet Isaiah bar Amoz)We’re considered hopelessly naïve or even treasonous? Why is it that everyone knows Jesus taught the way of...
A Great than Solomon — compiled by Brian Zahnd
A Greater Than Solomon - Matthew 12:42 Ecclesiastes is a divine revelation of the vanity, futility, emptiness and absurdity of life apart from a relationship with the living God. Ecclesiastes it is the natural, earthly wisdom of the sages and the...
A Contemplative Response To Our Present Economic Super-Agenda — Jeff Imbach
A Contemplative Response To Our Present Economic Super-Agenda “When civilizations start to die they go insane.” So begins a recent piece by Chris Hedges. “Let the ice sheets in the Arctic melt,” he says. “Let the temperatures rise. Let the air,...
Review of Anna Yin’s ‘Wings Toward Sunlight: Poems’ — by Ron Dart
Anna Yin, Wings Toward Sunlight: Poems, 2011 We had the experience but missed the meaning. -- T.S. Eliot There is poetry that speaks to the head but never touches the deeper recesses of the heart, and there is poetry that massages the heart but does not...
Review of Milton Acorn: In a Springtime Instant — by Ron Dart
Milton Acorn: In A Springtime Instant: Selected Poems, James Deahl (ed.), 2012. Milton Acorn (1923-1986) was the most dynamic, controversial and prophetic Canadian Anglican political poet in the latter half of the 20th century. Acorn was a poet who spoke to the people...
Anatheism: Returning to God after God — Ideas (CBC radio) with Richard Kearney
Public discussion of religion tends to polarize between two extremes: religious fundamentalism, and the aggressive atheism of such writers as Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens. But much of what people actually believe falls somewhere in between. It is subtler...