Book Review Archives - Faith Tides https://faithtides.ca/tag/book-review/ News from the Diocese of Islands and Islets in the Anglican Church of Canada Tue, 30 Sep 2025 05:57:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://faithtides.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/cropped-Faith-Tides-Icon-32x32.png Book Review Archives - Faith Tides https://faithtides.ca/tag/book-review/ 32 32 207835967 Book review of Circles and the Cross: Cosmos, Consciousness, Christ, and the Human Place in Creation https://faithtides.ca/book-review-of-circles-and-the-cross-cosmos-consciousness-christ-and-the-human-place-in-creation/ https://faithtides.ca/book-review-of-circles-and-the-cross-cosmos-consciousness-christ-and-the-human-place-in-creation/#respond Mon, 01 Jan 2024 19:13:34 +0000 https://faithtides.ca/?p=174316   If you are going on a trip, leave your presuppositions behind! In November, I had the great pleasure of travelling to Galiano Island to celebrate eucharist at St Margaret of Scotland Church. Little did I know the surprises in store for me. After my hosts, the Walmsleys, had prepared a lovely welcoming dinner for […]

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]]> https://faithtides.ca/book-review-of-circles-and-the-cross-cosmos-consciousness-christ-and-the-human-place-in-creation/feed/ 0 174316 Book review of Rest is Resistance – A Manifesto https://faithtides.ca/book-review-of-rest-is-resistance-a-manifesto/ https://faithtides.ca/book-review-of-rest-is-resistance-a-manifesto/#respond Mon, 01 Jan 2024 19:13:14 +0000 https://faithtides.ca/?p=174300   Since naps have been essential to my survival, I was immediately attracted to this 2022 New York Times Best Sellers book in which the author, Tricia Hersey, calls herself the “Founder of The Nap Ministry,” and even the “Nap Bishop.” I learned about this book from Reverend Ruth Dantzer who’s the Anglican Spiritual Care […]

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]]> https://faithtides.ca/book-review-of-rest-is-resistance-a-manifesto/feed/ 0 174300 Pressing forward — High Church Anglicanism in print and practice https://faithtides.ca/pressing-forward-high-church-anglicanism-in-print-and-practice/ https://faithtides.ca/pressing-forward-high-church-anglicanism-in-print-and-practice/#respond Thu, 21 Dec 2023 14:49:22 +0000 https://faithtides.ca/?p=174360 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 had come to the city and to the parish from afar, and both were greatly devoted to the Anglo-Catholic worship of St John’s as parishioners, altar servers, and members of […]

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]]> https://faithtides.ca/pressing-forward-high-church-anglicanism-in-print-and-practice/feed/ 0 174360 Solutions over despair https://faithtides.ca/solutions-over-despair/ https://faithtides.ca/solutions-over-despair/#respond Thu, 06 Oct 2022 04:48:47 +0000 https://faithtides.ca/?p=172294 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 Kingham’s book Solutions for a Wounded Planet felt like a timely read. Kingham is a parishioner at Holy Trinity, North Saanich, and he has a wealth of experience in environmental […]

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]]> https://faithtides.ca/solutions-over-despair/feed/ 0 172294 What the church has to offer a world in spiritual crisis https://faithtides.ca/what-the-church-has-to-offer-a-world-in-spiritual-crisis/ https://faithtides.ca/what-the-church-has-to-offer-a-world-in-spiritual-crisis/#respond Wed, 31 Aug 2022 16:19:15 +0000 https://faithtides.ca/?p=172219 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 title and the central question at the heart of Martha Tatarnic’s latest book. Tatarnic is the incumbent at St George, St Catharines in the Anglican Diocese of Niagara and she […]

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]]> https://faithtides.ca/what-the-church-has-to-offer-a-world-in-spiritual-crisis/feed/ 0 172219 Interconnection and healing from colonization https://faithtides.ca/interconnection-and-healing-from-colonization/ https://faithtides.ca/interconnection-and-healing-from-colonization/#respond Wed, 31 Aug 2022 16:16:49 +0000 https://faithtides.ca/?p=172217 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 Indigenous trauma and resilience, recommend this book, I ordered it and was surprised to find that it’s written by a retired assistant Crown attorney, who is non-Indigenous. Ross is also […]

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]]> https://faithtides.ca/interconnection-and-healing-from-colonization/feed/ 0 172217 Celtic teachers show us the divine in all matter https://faithtides.ca/celtic-teachers-show-us-the-divine-in-all-matter/ https://faithtides.ca/celtic-teachers-show-us-the-divine-in-all-matter/#respond Tue, 31 May 2022 19:01:27 +0000 https://faithtides.ca/?p=172130 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 sister after hearing Newell speak in Dublin about the new thing that’s trying to come forth given the decline of traditional Christianity — what are the yearnings for new birth […]

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]]> https://faithtides.ca/celtic-teachers-show-us-the-divine-in-all-matter/feed/ 0 172130 St. Brigid spans pagan and Christian traditions https://faithtides.ca/st-brigid-spans-pagan-and-christian-traditions/ https://faithtides.ca/st-brigid-spans-pagan-and-christian-traditions/#respond Fri, 01 Apr 2022 07:47:45 +0000 https://faithtides.ca/?p=172003 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 Kildare (c. 451-525) will be honoured with an annual public holiday, starting Feb. 1, 2023, in the Republic of Ireland. There, she is considered one of three national saints, along […]

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]]> https://faithtides.ca/st-brigid-spans-pagan-and-christian-traditions/feed/ 0 172003 Celtic spirituality and the great injustices of our times https://faithtides.ca/celtic-spirituality-and-the-great-injustices-of-our-times/ https://faithtides.ca/celtic-spirituality-and-the-great-injustices-of-our-times/#respond Tue, 01 Mar 2022 18:32:15 +0000 https://faithtides.ca/?p=171878 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 Christianity predates Roman Christianity in the Celtic Isles by centuries, it is often seen as a superficial New Age flower-power mashup — accused of being “pagan” by those unaware of […]

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]]> https://faithtides.ca/celtic-spirituality-and-the-great-injustices-of-our-times/feed/ 0 171878 A call to realign Christianity with Christ the revolutionary https://faithtides.ca/a-call-to-realign-christianity-with-christ-the-revolutionary/ https://faithtides.ca/a-call-to-realign-christianity-with-christ-the-revolutionary/#respond Sun, 02 Jan 2022 02:42:18 +0000 https://faithtides.ca/?p=171674 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 Coren, who was ordained a priest in the Anglican church in October 2021. As Coren outlines in the introduction to the book, up until 2013, he was an orthodox Roman […]

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