“On the Occasion” – T.S. Eliot with Ron Dart & Brad Embry
In this episode of On the Occasion, Ron Dart takes us through some of the poetry of T.S. Eliot, especially two poems in the Ariel series, "Journey of the Magi" and "Song for Simeon."
In this session, Ron addresses some ways in which Eliot's poetry and journey in life can supply Christians with useful ways of living out their faith.
On the Occasion is hosted by Brad Embry, pastoral assistant with St. Michael's Anglican Church, Delafield, WI.
Q&R: How Naive Violence Fantasies Endanger Your Family – Brad Jersak
QUESTION Recently, I had been reading David W. Bercot's insightful book, The Kingdom That Turned the World Upside Down. Our backstory: My spouse and I used to be "Preppers" and besides food, water, and other emergency supplies, we...
“The Entire Country is Haunted” – Wayne Northey
"As we’re seeing more and more every day, this entire country is a real-life Indian burial ground—one that criminals parading as teachers, religious leaders and politicians took great care to cover up." - Alicia Elliot Years ago, I ceased “proudly calling...
“The Inklings and Culture: A Harvest of Scholarship” – review by Ron Dart
Monika B. Hilder, Sara L. Pearson & Laura N. Van Dyke (eds.), The Inklings and Culture: A Harvest of Scholarship from the Inklings Institute of Canada (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020). There has been, within Canada, a committed history of...
Tree of Liberty or Tree of Life – Kenneth Tanner
“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time by the blood of patriots and tyrants.” —Thomas Jefferson (who venerated ‘nature and nature’s god’) Thomas Jefferson The Tree of Life does not require the blood of the martyrs and is not refreshed by their...
The satan – Michael Hardin
Editor's Note: Clarion previously (2016) posted Michael Hardin's 20-episode series on The satan as a weekly release. With Michael's permission, Clarion is pleased to make the PDF available: CLICK HERE to download The pdf is an...
Why I Don’t Use the Language of “Christian Universalism” – Kenneth Tanner
I don’t use the language of “Christian universalism” because it’s too often associated with a false interpretation of reality, one that is absent repentance, theosis, and transfiguration.We don’t enter the world that’s coming to this world without consent to the love...
Whenever Christianity “owns” a culture it becomes corrupt – Wayne Northey
"Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority; still more when you superadd the tendency of the certainty of corruption by authority." --Lord John...
Haiti’s history and fate is entwined with America – Wayne North America
Wayne Northey: Haiti is a made-in-France-and-America tragedy . . . Please see Egberto Willies on this: My wife Esther and I visited there in 1991, after attending a United Nations Restorative Justice Conference in San José, Costa Rica. We said in response that if we...
Deconstruction & Bricolage: Derrida or Descartes? Sean Davidson with Brad Jersak
"To say that Rachel Held Evans and Nadia Bolz-Weber were important to me at the time would be an understatement. When I discovered Rachel’s blog, I was furiously sorting through the rubble of my deconstructed worldview. The more I read from and about Rachel and...
Tongues of Fire (Not Fire in Our Tongues) by Gaby Viesca
Tongues of Fire (Not Fire in Our Tongues) Open Table Conference - June 27, 2021 Gaby Viesca Lately, I’ve been paying close attention to the role that language plays in the shaping of our communities, our relationships, and the way we experience God. In the short time...