Becoming Neighbors” – Kinship with Refugee Claimants – Anika Bauman with Ron Dart
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Violence, Hospitality, and the Cross: Reappropriating the Atonement Tradition
Review by Wayne Northey. (Hans Boersma, Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2004, 288 pages.) This is an impressive book. First, Dr. Boersma is a meticulous theologian. Second, his sources are wide-ranging and carefully considered (this based on my limited awareness of...
Centering Prayer and Inner Awakening
Review by Ron Dart. Cynthia Bourgeault (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Cowley Publications, 2004) These days are characterized by a strong interest in spirituality, contemplation, and the mystical approach to knowing and living a meaningful life. Typically, this has taken...
“But I say to you…” Reflective book review of Deepak Chopra’s “Peace is the Way”
Deepak Chopra’s Peace is the Way: Bringing War and Violence to an End (New York: Harmony Books, 2005). Review by Brad Jersak. What troubled me most about Deepak Chopra’s Peace is the Way is not that the author gives no pretence of being Christian. Nor was I surprised...
Allen Ginsberg and George Grant: “Howl” and “Lament For a Nation”
Review by Ron Dart. It is 50 years this autumn since the Beat Movement was launched at Six Gallery in San Francisco (October 13, 1955). Some of the American Beats from the East Coast (Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg) and the West Coast (Kenneth Rexroth, Gary Snyder,...
George Grant: “Lament for a Nation: the Defeat of Canadian Nationalism”
Review by Ron Dart. "Lament for a Nation should be respected as a masterpiece of political meditation." Peter Emberley "Masterpiece is not a word to use lightly, but Lament for a Nation merits it.William Christian It is forty years this year (1965-2005)...
Adventures In Missing the Point: How the Culture-controlled Church Neutered the Gospel
(Brian D. McLaren & Tony Campolo. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2003.). Review by Kevin Miller. Have evangelicals missed the point? That’s certainly how I assessed the situation as I walked into Borders bookstore recently. I’d even been kicking around ideas for a...
Generation Kill
(Evan Wright. New York: G. Putnam’s Sons, 2004). Review by Kevin Miller. “I’ll say one thing about these guys: When we take fire, not one of them hesitates to shoot back. In World War Two, when Marines hit the beaches, a surprisingly high percentage of them didn’t...
It’s The Crude, Dude: War, Oil, and The Fight For The Planet
Linda McQuaig, with a forward by Noam Chomsky (Toronto: Doubleday, 2004). Review by Ron Dart. "With a keen eye and grim wit, McQuaig’s perceptive inquiry into the world’s energy system strips away layer after layer of deceit, cynicism, racism, sordid...
Speaking My Mind by Tony Campolo – Review by Brad Jersak
(Nashville, TN:W Publishing Group, 2004). Not long ago, sociologist-activist-author Tony Campolo survived a serious stroke. In the aftermath, he emerged with new sense of prophetic urgency. The subtitle of his new book summarizes his redoubled mission this way: “The...
Hegemony or Survival: America’s Quest for Global Dominance
Noam Chomsky (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2004). Review by Ron Dart. “Judged in terms of the power, range, novelty, and influence of his thought, Noam Chomsky is arguably the most important intellectual alive.”—The New York Times “Chomsky…is a major scholarly...