Mathematics teacher and prayer-workshop leader Sybil MacBeth knows about math-anxiety. “It’s like a panic attack in the face of pages full of numbers and equations,” she writes, describing the “allergy to math” response she...
Category: May 2008, Books

A. J. Jacobs describes himself as obsessive-compulsive, and proves it to be so by relating how he disinfects the playground swings before his toddler son uses them. He is also an accomplished practitioner of the literary genre of...
Category: April 2008, Books
Hard-working parish priests and other Christian leaders want to experience desirable outcomes from ministry both for themselves and their communities. It seems, however, that not every activity gets results proportionate to the...
Category: February 2008, Books
The Cardboard Shack Beneath the Bridge is a rhyming picture book about homelessness.The author, Tim Ruff, writes that homeless people are like everyone else. They have dreams and hopes just like you and me. For me that was...
Category: January 2008, Books

“Housing is a human right”. So says Cathy Crowe, author of Dying for a Home: Homeless Activists Speak Out.Ms. Crowe is a street nurse and homeless activist who has worked with Toronto’s homeless population for the past 18 years....
Category: January 2008, Books
Reviewed by Leighton Graves, age 10, Richmond Hill, Ont.Reviewed by Leighton Graves, age 10, Richmond Hill, Ont.
If the World Were a Village: A Book About the World’s People
I like the way this book explains the world and...
Category: December 2007, Books
Like young people on a quest to “find themselves,” Anglicans have long been searching for those things that set them apart from other Christians. Three years ago a working group of the General Synod’s standing committee on faith,...
Category: November 2007, Books
Both read the Bible day and night, But thou read’st black where I read white.’
(William Blake, c. 1818)
The trouble with invoking religion in the political arena is that it is too often done by those who are certain God is on...
Category: October 2007, Books

The rather dry title Canadian Churches: an architectural history only hints at the riches within this enormous, comprehensive, stunningly beautiful survey of Christian houses of worship in this huge northern country.The oversized...
Category: October 2007, Books

Two quite different books on the history of Christianity are the subject of this month’s review.
Category: September 2007, Books