Category: Reviews
God Is: My Search for Faith in a Secular World
David Adams Richards, Anchor Canada, 2009 pp. 166. This award winning Canadian author is best known for his fiction work, The Friends of Meagre Fortune and Mercy Among the Children. While questions ... Read More
Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies
– Marilyn Chandler McEntyre – Eerdmans, 2009, pp 234. Language serves to bind us into human community as it carries and communicates our values and beliefs. When those values and beliefs... Read More
Artist – Sharon Tiessen
Hope of Glory. Series. Ceramic, recycled glass, found metal inclusions As a visual artist and musician, the arts have been, for me, the main forum for the working through of such questions as faith, i... Read More
The Bench Theatre
The Bench Theatre Initiative, a Toronto based company has recently become an Imago project and is seeking to do innovative theatre that informs and challenges. Wonderful is a new play by Shannon Blake... Read More
Contemplative Vision – A Guide to Christian Art and Prayer
– Juliet Benner, IVP, 2011 The connection between prayer and image is longstanding, whether we consider the icons of Eastern Orthodoxy or the role of image in the church during pre-reformation t... Read More
Beautiful Mercy: A Book of Hours
Bramwell Ryan, Editor In the medieval world a Book of Hours was intended to assist the faithful in daily worship and prayers. It was typical for these early works – published long before the advent ... Read More
Artist – Betty Spackman
Found Wanting: A Multimedia Installation Regarding Grief and Gratitude As an artist and a storyteller I am caught somewhere between actual, real objects, and the stories connected to them. The bones... Read More
An Interview With Don Amero
Don Amero In the fall of 2007 Don quit his day job of hardwood floor installer and began pursuing music as a full time career. So far so good… Growing up in the North End of Winnipeg, acoustic m... Read More