May 1, 2008 Author draws on artistic approach to prayer

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...

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April 1, 2008 Going by the Book (for a year)

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...

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February 1, 2008 How-to tips on caring for ourselves, our parishes

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...

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January 2, 2008 A child’s glimpse of a serious issue

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...

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January 2, 2008 Homeless share their stories and their dreams

“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....

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December 1, 2007 Children’s books hold lessons for all of us

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...

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November 1, 2007 Book chronicles Anglican identity

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,...

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October 1, 2007 God on the ballot: faith and politics in America

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...

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October 1, 2007 Book depicts some of Canada’s finest churches

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...

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September 4, 2007 But never, never on a Sunday ...

Two quite different books on the history of Christianity are the subject of this month’s review.

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