Category: Books
Doug Beardsley: Christian Bard of British Columbia – Ron Dart
“And there was one that wrestled with him until daybreak” -The Jerusalem Bible, Genesis 32:24 Introduction to Wrestling with Angels (1995). There are few Christian poets and prose writers in BC an... Read More
Geez Magazine
Geez, the Winnipeg based ad-free magazine devotes its spring 2008 issue to the theme Art in an Age of Brutality. The articles are woven around a quote from Thomas Merton in Disputed Questions. The sty... Read More
IN A NEW LIGHT
Among the recent books on film and faith we note two here. Ron Austin, In a New Light: Spirituality and the Media Arts, Eerdmans, 2007, and Behind the Screen: Hollywood Insiders on Faith, Film and C... Read More
BEHIND THE SCREEN
A very different kind of book. It contains eighteen articles by Hollywood insiders who identify themselves as Christian. There is evident diversity in how that faith perspective is understood and expr... Read More
Canadian Churches: An Architectural History
By Peter Richardson, Douglas Richardson, Firefly Books, 2007 Reviewed by Stephen Rowe. One can appreciate Peter and Douglas Richardson’s sumptuously illustrated (with 400 photographs by John De Vi... Read More
Jim’s Grandiose Big Bible Picture Book
By Jim Paterson, Bastian Books, 2007 This is an unusual book unusual in the way it brings together word and image. Jim Paterson is both the artist and the author who invites us to join him on a journe... Read More
The Beauty of God – Theology and the Art
Daniel J Treier, Mark Husbands and Roger Lundin, IVP, 2007. This is a fine collection of essays that dusts off many questions about beauty that have not been asked for some time. Beauty was not a welc... Read More