Book Review

Book review of Circles and the Cross: Cosmos, Consciousness, Christ, and the Human Place in Creation

January 1, 2024

If you are going on a trip, leave your presuppositions behind! In November, I had the great pleasure of travelling to Galiano Island to ...

Book review of Rest is Resistance – A Manifesto

January 1, 2024

Since naps have been essential to my survival, I was immediately attracted to this 2022 New York Times Best Sellers book in which the ...

Pressing forward — High Church Anglicanism in print and practice

December 21, 2023

During their time at St John the Evangelist, Montreal a few years ago, I had the pleasure to know Arlie Coles and Kieran Wilson. Both ...

Solutions over despair

October 6, 2022

Book Review: Solutions for a Wounded Planet by Jim Kingham. FriesenPress Editions, 2022. Sept. 1 to Oct. 4 is the Season of Creation, so Jim ...

What the church has to offer a world in spiritual crisis

August 31, 2022

Book Review: Why Gather? The Hope and Promise of the Church by Martha Tatarnic. New York, NY, Church Publishing, 2022. Why Gather? is both the ...

Interconnection and healing from colonization

August 31, 2022

Book Review: Indigenous Healing: Exploring Traditional Paths by Rupert Ross. Toronto, Penguin Canada, 2014. After hearing Martin Brokenleg, a priest and prominent psychologist specializing in ...

Celtic teachers show us the divine in all matter

May 31, 2022

Book Review: Sacred Earth, Sacred Soul by John Philip Newell. New York, NY, HarperOne, 2021 “We’re in for quite a stretching,” said an Irish midwife ...

St. Brigid spans pagan and Christian traditions

April 1, 2022

Book review: Brigid’s Mantle: A Celtic Dialogue Between Pagan and Christian by Lilly Weichberger & Kenneth McIntosh. Vestal, NY, Anamchara Books, 2015 Saint Brigid of ...

Celtic spirituality and the great injustices of our times

March 1, 2022

Book Review: Persistent Resistance: Calls for Justice from the Celtic Traditions: A Collection of Essays edited by Ellyn Sanna. Vestal, NY, Anamchara Books, 2019. Although Celtic ...

A call to realign Christianity with Christ the revolutionary

January 1, 2022

Book Review: The Rebel Christ by Michael Coren. Toronto, Dundurn Press, 2021. The Rebel Christ is the latest book from long-time writer and broadcaster Michael ...

Thought-provoking fiction adds to a very familiar Bible account

December 1, 2021

Book Review: The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd. New York, Viking, 2020.

Church plots thicken

March 1, 2021

Pioneer Churches of Vancouver Island and the Salish Sea: An Explorer’s Guide by Liz Bryan. Victoria, Heritage House Publishing, 2020. No Better Land: The 1860 ...