Whose God? Deconstructing False Images (from Irenaeus to C.S. Lewis) – Ron Dart & Bradley Jersak
C.S. Lewis & the Last Battle: Whose Version of Aslan (God)?
by Ron Dart
Of Heretics, Kings & Foxes
by Bradley Jersak
The Fall of the Prison – Review by Wayne Northey
The Fall of the Prison: Biblical Perspectives on Prison Abolition, Lee Griffith, Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1993. 258pp. by Wayne Northey “The gospel is profoundly scandalous, and until we hear at least a whisper of its scandal, we risk not hearing any...
The Expanding Prison – Review by Wayne Northey
The Expanding Prison: The Crisis in Crime and Punishment and the Search for Alternatives by David Cayley (Anansi Press, 1998). The author writes of expanding prison growth: “I believe that this continuing increase presents a real threat to the decency and...
Paschal Message – 2006 by Archbishop Lazar Puhalo
There are so many things to speak about at Holy Pascha. This year, I would like to invite you to reflect with me on the gift of worship and the integrity of the Divine Liturgy. Since the Liturgy itself is a type of the eternal "wedding banquet" of the...
Oaths by Brad Jersak
As I've travelled in the US, I have been surprised by how prevalent the taking of oaths is in that culture. In contrast to Canada, the pledge of allegiance is an oath taken thousands of times by every American citizen, nearly from birth. The national anthem is...
True Christian Spirituality by Wayne Northey
Hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, the Pharisees got together. One of them, an expert in the law, tested him with this question: “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?” Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and...
Easter and Politics by Ron Dart
What has Easter to do with politics? What has the church to do with the state? What has the sacred to do with the secular? What has justice and peace to do with empires? What has Canada to do with the USA? The Christian understanding of Easter has its roots in...
The Grant Inquisitor: A Chilling Prophecy Unheeded by Brad Jersak
In Dostoevsky's "Brothers Karamazov," we have Ivan's narrative about a Grand Inquisitor of the Church lecturing a silent Jesus who re-visits the Earth and is arrested during the 16th century inquisition. The speech seems to me a chilling prophecy being...
Re-recreation by Colleen
Divine Excavator, you dig holes in my ego to fill gaps in my soul.
Back of the Bus: Granville Street Bridge by Colleen
clouds on the mountains ships at harbour yachts in marina dwelling places stacked, bricked, glassed, terraced crammed with illusion of space
She Who Loves Flowers by Colleen
front of the bus, glance from my book; somewhere near here, she lives she said the sunflower would die at her place, yet upon my insistance took it, and threatened to give it to somebody else somewhere near here -- a house with neat lawn? apartment, bare balcony,...