Category: Reviews
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
It Was Good: Making Art to the Glory of God
Ned Bustard, Square Halo Books, 2006. First published in 2000 is once again avail-able in a revised and expanded edition. There are seven new essays in this edition including an introduction, with 21 ... Read More
From Beginning to End
(Piquant Editions 2007) A newly published book featuring the visual art work of Dutch artist Anneke Kaai. It brings together in a single volume four previously published books. For the past several ye... Read More
In Subversive Orthodoxy
Outlaws, Revolutionaries, and other Christians in Disguise (Brazos Press 2005) Robert Inchausti explores the ideas of a number of literary figures whose thinking has been shaped in one way or another ... Read More
Artist – Peter Reitsma
Greenhouse Blues by Peter Reitsma. As an artist I imagine hope in the face of disaster. I would like to picture the land speak of the healing creator by pointing at economic injustice. The meta... Read More