Betty Spackman – A Creature Chronicle
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“This exhibition, which points to the complex connections between the Arts, Sciences, and Faith is an excellent tool to facilitate discussions about the future of creation in the context of posthumanism.”
John Franklin, Executive Director, IMAGO Arts
The Matrix of Liberalism: A Seven Act Drama – by Ron Dart
All of us, whether we are consciously aware of it or not, think from a core of philosophic principles. It is from these seed thoughts, principles or ideas, that the fruit of various and varied ethical positions are taken. We live in a period of time in which many ethical positions are embraced, contested and questioned in our culture wars. Many is the hot button issue that, when articulated and argued in the public places, creates many a reaction. Ethical tribes and clans (and chieftains aplenty) have emerged to beat the drums for ethical positions on the political right, sensible centre and political left.
The Prophetic Culture of the Kingdom (pt. 4) by Eric H. Janzen
Chapter Four Transcending Culture I have attempted to show that kingdom culture is a spiritual culture revealed by God. This culture comes out of his character, which is unchanging. The spiritual culture of the kingdom is unchanging as...
“The Christian Platonism of Simone Weil” and “Exiles from Nowhere” – Reviews by Brad Jersak
Book Reviews by Brad Jersak E. Jane Doering and Eric O. Springsted, The Christian Platonism of Simone Weil (Notre Dame: UND Press, 2004. Alan Mendelson, Exiles from Nowhere: The Jews and the...
The Prophetic Culture of the Kingdom (pt. 3) by Eric H. Janzen
Chapter Three Divided Loyalties The Church has been facing a crisis for some time now, a crisis surrounding the question of relevance. Its critics claim that the Church and the Gospel have ceased being relevant and meaningful. Many have sought to answer...
The Neurobiology of Sin by Archbishop Lazar Puhalo
Outline of a Proposed Paper for the Orthodox Christian Conference on Psychology and Psychotherapy. 1 INTENT "Man, with respect to his nature, is most truly said to be neither soul without body, nor...body without soul; but is composed of the union of...
Merton and Chrysostom from Ben Eisner
Friends. This morning, while reading Merton's Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander, I came across something that took the wind out of my sails (that’s a good thing). I instantly thought of Jesus' call to be shrewd as serpents and innocent as doves....
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...