A Jazz Evening with Merton, Hesse, Buber and Eliot – Ron Dart & Jazzthink
A Jazz Evening with Readings from Merton, Hesse, Buber and Eliot.
Readings by Ron Dart.
Hosted by Brian Fraser
Brentwood Presbyterian Church
Jazzthink
The Prophetic Culture of the Kingdom (pt. 2) by Eric H. Janzen
Chapter 2A Spiritual Culture?Christians face an added complexity in considering culture and paradigms. This complexity is summed up nicely in the well known axiom “In the world but not of the world.” What does that mean exactly? This...
Jewish Zionism, Martin Buber and Mahatma Gandhi by Ron Dart
“To Buber, therefore, Judaism is coincident with a vital prophetic tradition.” Hans Urs Von Balthsar Martin Buber and Christianity (p.36) The Jewish Zionist tradition took two different paths within the early years of...
The Prophetic Culture of the Kingdom (part 1) by Eric H Janzen
The Prophetic Culture of the KingdomPart I of a 8 part series: Introduction and Chapter 1Culture and Paradigm: The Underlying Problem A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By...
Review of Nur Masalha’s The Bible and Zionism by Ron Dart
Nur Masalha, The Bible and Zionism: Invented Traditions, Archeology and Post-Colonialism in Israel-Palestine (London: Zed Books, 2007), There are plenty of books that proudly fly the Jewish and Christian Zionist flags. There are a variety of paths to...
Tragedy by Archbishop Lazar Puhalo
The tragedy of one people is the tragedy of all of us. So many human tragedies occur around the world in a given year that it is impossible to know of all of them, and of the ones well known, sometimes they seem so great that many minds just shut them out....
Stand Close By by Iona and Eli Snair
When anxiety came to our house, it didn’t come inconveniently like an uninvited guest – it came violently and unimaginably like a home invasion. Our son Eli was 9 years old – an explorer and adventurer, with an unstoppable drive to conquer every inch of the forest...
Milton Acorn’s “The Red and Green Pony” by Ron Dart
The Red and Green Pony is one of the most important Canadian political parables, and it was written in the 1950s by Milton Acorn. The tale is a well-told political fable that records and anticipates much that was about to unfold in the latter half of the...
Brueggemann – Psalms of Vengeance
This 2 DVD series entitled, The Psalms: The Hard Road From Obedience To Praise includes three lectures plus Q & A times on these topics:Lecture 1 Orientation: The Hard Road from Obedience to PraiseLecture 2 Disorientation: Faith in the...
On Judging Tiger Woods by Andre Harden
Perhaps I shouldn't be surprised that Tiger Woods televised apology was followed up by a string of commentators crassly judging the validity and intent of his apology. But I was surprised, and it wasn't just because the critics' baseless speculation was so...