I WAS SO IMPRESSED with this book that I arranged to meet the author. Ian Percy and his message are one. His conversational style and humour draw the reader into the exciting account of his 25 years of corporate consulting and...
Category: September 1998, Books
The Protestant Face of Anglicanism by Paul F.H. Zaul Eerdmans $28.95 (cloth) ISBN 0-8028-3775-1 ERHAPS THE MOST arresting aspect of this book,...
Category: September 1998, Books

EVERY BOOK I've written has changed me," says poet and novelist Joy Kogawa. "The journey of the pen is a transforming one because when you use the pen as a pick axe to delve as deeply as you can, it will bring up the most...
Category: July 1998, Books

Redoubtable is one word that comes to mind to describe Sister Constance. As an advocate - whether for her girls as headmistress of Qu'Appelle Diocesan (later St. Chad's) Girls School in Regina, or on behalf of her fellow...
Category: July 1998, Books
HOSE LAZY DAYS of summer when it is possible to settle down with a good book seem to be fewer and further between as the demands of work never seem to slacken as they once did. Nevertheless, here are some that could be read...
Category: July 1998, Books
The Challenge of Tradition Discerning the Future of Anglicanism John Simons, editor Anglican Book Centre $18.95 (paper) ISBN 1-55126-163-4 ...
Category: May 1998, Books
NAIVELY, I HOPED the authors of The Challenge of Tradition would offer a solid and serious critique of the Essentials movement (and substantive criticisms are possible), but I was disappointed. I want to speak from within the...
Category: May 1998, Books
THE BAD THING about the Montreal Declaration of Anglican Essentials is that it seems to be yet one more statement of a tired old conservatism threatening to call forth yet one more statement from a tired old liberalism. The...
Category: May 1998, Books
PROFESSOR RITCHIE is right to insist on the importance of the pluralism question in comments on Anglican Essentials, and on The Challenge of Tradition. He does not provide his own vision, but I assume that it is much closer to...
Category: May 1998, Books
ANGLICAN ESSENTIALS and the "thrill" of Tradition; Discerning the Future of Anglicanism: A Positive View. These phrases combine much of the content of the books, Anglican Essentials and The Challenge of Tradition. Can we use...
Category: May 1998, Books