Rowan Williams’ ‘Silence and Honey Cakes: The Wisdom of the Desert’ — Review by Ron Dart
I was in my 20s in the 1970s and eager to know, in a more meaningful way, what theology as wisdom, as insight, as a transformative journey was all about. I had studied a great deal of biblical, historic, systematic and confessional theology in England and Switzerland...
The Sports Crowd is Untruth by Wayne Northey
Photo courtesy of Justice Jersak Søren Kierkegaard wrote “The crowd is untruth." René Girard saw it in the hidden uncouth: Scapegoating violence, originary, in all human cultures. It is all innocent fun say dominant culture vultures Of every sports...
The Biblical Basis for Listening Prayer by Brad Jersak
We are often asked about the biblical basis for listening prayer. This is largely what Can You Hear Me? attempts to share. Reading that book in its entirety will give readers a fuller sense of the biblical, historical and practical foundations for listening prayer.
Merton’s Apologies to an Unbeliever by Robert Inchausti
Believing means liberating the indestructible element in oneself, or, more accurately, being indestructible, or, more accurately, being. Kafka’s Diaries In the year he died, the Trappist monk and best-selling author, Thomas Merton, published an essay addressed to...
The Beats of the North Cascades by Ron Dart
A braid of circumstances ties the Beat Generation to the North Cascades. In the early 1950s, a weary America turned its attention to getting ahead after enduring the Depression and WWII---and in that era of the man in the gray flannel suit, a group...
Thinking Tikkun Olam in Istanbul by Brian Zahnd
I’m sitting on a rooftop in Istanbul. I’m thinking. Thinking about the world. Thinking about Jesus. I’m thinking about Jesus as the savior of the world and the Jewish concept of tikkun olam (“to mend the world”). The world is broken.It needs mending.Jesus is the...
Reversing the Reversal: Contemplation and Action – By Ron Dart
George Grant was drawn to Martin Heidegger for the simple reason that Heidegger was, probably, one of the most severe critics of the modern way of doing philosophy and the western understanding of mind and what it means to think. Heidegger was convinced that...
Nihilism, Rapture and End Time Fallacies – Lazar Puhalo and David Goa
Nihilism, Rapture and End Time fantasies. from Orthodox Canada on Vimeo.
Archbishop Tutu – ‘Be the Spark!’ by Brad Jersak
Last night I attended Be the Spark at the Tacoma Dome in Washington State. The event featured a series of breath-taking performances by a variety of inspiring young bands, choirs, dancers, and singers. It also featured two ‘talks’ — okay, full-on, no-holds-barred, hope-filled, cage-rattling preaching of the highest calibre — by two seasoned world-shakers: Craig Keilburger and Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
Nuremberg Trial Prosecutor weighs in on OBL
Benjamin Ferencz is a 92-year-old U.S. citizen and American combat soldier during World War II. He served as prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials, where he tried many Nazi war criminals. The above link directs readers to a controversial 13-minute interview on CBC Radio Canada on Bin Laden’s death, the Nuremberg principles, and the role of America.