July 3, 2007 Journal editorial among best in religion writing compilation

An award-winning Anglican Journal editorial has been included in a collection of the best religion writing in North America. Good News; The Best Religion Writing in North America was recently published by Seabury Books, an...

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July 3, 2007 Exhibit shows commonality of faith

Several of the world’s earliest surviving texts of the Christian, Jewish and Muslim faiths are being exhibited side by side for the first time in a major exhibition at the British Library in London.

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May 1, 2007 End of slave trade remembered in books and film

A handful of newly-released books, a mainstream film and a number of special events marked the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade in the British Empire, many of them taking advantage of March 25, the day the...

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April 1, 2007 Peace is reality of Bible’s promise of ‘fear not’

For too many of us, silence is the path of least resistance. Complacency, fear, and doubt about our own ability to make a difference tend to smother our instinctive knowledge that there is something terribly wrong with the world around us. Two new books call upon us to become activists for peace by embracing the ideas of pacifism and nonviolence. The Ursula Franklin Reader: Pacifism as a Map collects articles by the eminent Canadian physicist and social activist. Ms. Franklin makes it clear that pacifism ought not to be confused with passivity: “Do not be content to accept things as they are ... In the end it is our lives that must speak the truth. What we do and what we refuse to do, from the smallest to the largest decisions, is the truth that we must speak.”

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March 1, 2007 Lovers’ Saffron Cake

“Saffron, perhaps the most expensive spice ever cultivated, certainly makes Lovers’ Saffron Cake a wedding confection fit for King Solomon and his bride – or for any wedding couple beginning married life.”

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March 1, 2007 Cookbooks to feed hungry souls

Overwhelming – but in a good way – is how one feels skimming through Cooking With The Bible, Biblical Food, Feasts, and Lore.

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March 1, 2007 Book sets up God as a straw man

‘Professional atheist’ is really man of faith

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February 1, 2007 Moving bio details ‘uniquely Tutu’ model of peace

John Allen writes of Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s passion and compassion, his enormous charisma and his extraordinary ability to communicate with people – whites and blacks, enemies and friends, presidents and warlords, racists and...

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January 1, 2007 The punk and the professor and what they say about God

Growing up in Calgary in the 1970s, members of a punk rock band called the Hot Nasties, we were misfits.Punks are always misfits, and proudly so. But our group – our gang – were misfits among the misfits. We were card-carrying...

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December 1, 2006 BCP: a finished product or a work in progress?

These two books are different in content and purpose. One is a devotional commentary on the 1962 Canadian Book of Common Prayer (BCP), which appeared in substantially finished form 450 years ago in the Church of England.The other...

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