23 Jul 2023 Book Review of Revelation for the Rest of Us: A Prophetic Call to Follow Jesus as a Dissident Disciple by my friend, David Giesbrecht McKnight, Scott. Revelation for the Rest of Us: A Prophetic Call to Follow Jesus as… Editor No Comments
18 May 2023 Dearest Sister Wendy: A Surprising Story of Faith and Friendship Sister Wendy Beckett and Robert Ellsberg | Orbis Books, 2022 by Ron Dart: My friend, amongst many scholarly pursuits and… Editor No Comments
26 Mar 2023 The Other Side of the Good News: Confronting the Contemporary Challenges to Jesus’ Teachings on Hell WN: I knew I would eventually review this book. But it took me seven years after its publication to do… Editor No Comments
15 Feb 2023 Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation Book Review of: Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation Kristin Kobes Du… Editor No Comments
13 Nov 2022 Captain America; The Armageddon Factor (Two Reviews Together) Captain America and the Crusade Against Evil: The Dilemma of Zealous Nationalism, Robert Jewett and John Shelton Lawrence, Grand Rapids:… Editor
09 Nov 2022 Book Review of: Glory to God in the Lowest: Journeys to an Unholy Land Olive Branch Press, 2022, Donald E. Wagner By Ron Dart The title of this timely, autobiographical and not-to-be-missed book tends… Editor No Comments
07 Jun 2022 “There Is No Way to Peace, Peace Is the Way”: A.J. Muste and American Radical Pacifism Review of American Gandhi: A.J. Muste and the History of Radicalism in the Twentieth Century, Leilah Danielson, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania… Editor No Comments
10 May 2022 Covenant of Peace The Missing Peace in New Testament Theology and Ethics, Willard M. Swartley, Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2006 WN: This is about… Editor No Comments
30 Mar 2022 Is the digital age confirming Ivan Illich’s once radical ideas? WN: Here’s a friendly new review of Ivan Illich: An Intellectual Journey by Robert Inchausti. He is the author of… Editor No Comments
27 Mar 2022 The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, and Capitalism in 17th Century North America and the Caribbean Book Review of The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, and Capitalism in 17th Century North… Editor No Comments
23 Mar 2022 Apocalypse Now!: A Revaluation of the Thought of Ivan Illich Brother John, Taizé In his masterful and comprehensive study recently published by Penn State University Press, Ivan Illich: An Intellectual… Editor No Comments
09 Nov 2021 Love on a human scale: The Gospel according to Ivan Illich – Review by Marcus Peter Rempel Every now and then a book comes into my life that puts me in a happy dilemma: I want to… Editor No Comments
02 Sep 2021 The Genealogy of Violence The Genealogy of Violence: Reflections on Creation, Freedom, and Evil, Charles K. Bellinger, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001, 157 pages.… Editor No Comments
03 Jun 2021 The Choice: Embrace The Possible by Dr. Edith Eva Eger WN: An astounding book; woman; story--and full of life lessons. There are many more videos online and another book: The… Editor No Comments
23 May 2021 I Was a Catholic Zionist: A Biblical Challenge to Tribalism and Idolatry WN: This review is from THE AMERICAN COUNCIL FOR JUDAISM Review: "I Was a Catholic Zionist"--An Eloquent Exploration of Judaism's… Editor No Comments
24 Mar 2021 The CIA as Organized Crime: How Illegal Operations Corrupt America Of the extraordinarily valuable and informative works for which Mr. Valentine is responsible, his latest, CIA As Organized Crime, may… Editor No Comments
05 Dec 2020 GOD IS NOT GREAT: How Religion Poisons Everything Christopher Hitchens, Toronto: Emblem Editions, 2008, 307 pp. WN: With such a claim in the title, Hitchins' treatise invariably tells… Editor No Comments
04 Dec 2020 Dancing With Elephants: Mindfulness Training For Those Living With Dementia, Chronic Illness or an Aging Brain, Book Review of Dancing With Elephants: Mindfulness Training For Those Living With Dementia, Chronic Illness or an Aging Brain Jarem… Editor No Comments
04 Dec 2020 Christianity and Pluralism Book Review of Christianity and Pluralism, Ron Dart and J. I. Packer, Lexham Press, 2019; 70 pages excerpt: Another publication,… Editor No Comments
04 Dec 2020 The New Faithful: Why Young Adults are Embracing Christian Orthodoxy Book review of The New Faithful: Why Young Adults are Embracing Christian Orthodoxy, Colleen Carroll, Chicago: Loyola Press, 2002, 320… Editor No Comments
01 Nov 2020 Book Review of Just War Against Terror: The Burden of American Power in a Violent World Just War Against Terror: The Burden of American Power in a Violent World, Jean Bethke Elshtain, New York: Basic Books,… Editor No Comments
28 Oct 2020 Writing Straight with Crooked Lines: A Memoir Orbis Books, 2020, by Jim Forest Reviewed by Ron Dart I first met Jim Forest in the mid-1980s when he… Editor No Comments
23 Jul 2020 Baseless: My Search for Secrets in the Ruins of the Freedom of Information Act Baseless: My Search for Secrets in the Ruins of the Freedom of Information Act July 22, 2020 Bats With Napalm… Editor No Comments
01 Jul 2020 Book Review of Dispelling The Clouds Book Review of Dispelling The Clouds by Wilma Derksen [NOTE: Please click on highlighted title above to be taken to… Editor No Comments
19 Jan 2020 Book Review of Christianity and Pluralism, Ron Dart and J. I. Packer, Lexham Press, 2019; 70 pages Book Review of Christianity and Pluralism, Ron Dart and J. I. Packer, Lexham Press, 2019; 70 pages WN: This brief… Editor No Comments
25 Apr 2019 Superabundantly Alive: Thomas Merton’s Dance With The Feminine Book Review of Superabundantly Alive: Thomas Merton’s Dance With The Feminine, Wood Lake Publishing, 2018, Susan McCaslin & J.S. Porter… Editor No Comments
23 Apr 2019 Fatal Discord Erasmus, Luther, and the Fight for the Western Mind Book Review of: Fatal Discord Erasmus, Luther, and the Fight for the Western Mind WN: My friend Ron Dart sent… Editor No Comments
06 Jan 2019 Early Christian Readings of Genesis One Early Christian Readings of Genesis One: Patristic Exegesis and Literal Interpretation, Downers Grove: IVP Academic, 2018; author Craig Allert WN:… Editor No Comments
13 Dec 2018 The Nonviolent Atonement Book Review of: The Nonviolent Atonement, J. Denny Weaver, Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2001/2011. 246 pages excerpt: While… Editor No Comments
13 Dec 2018 Justice That Restores, Charles W. Colson, Wheaton: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., 2001. 172 pages WN: Charles Colson’s book seems so out of place in the Age of Trump. Colson was of course a conservative… Editor No Comments
28 Mar 2018 Compulsory Compassion A Critique of Restorative Justice, Annalise Acorn, Vancouver: UBC Press, 2004, 207 pages WN: A Christian acquaintance and fellow theological… Editor No Comments
09 Mar 2018 They Will Inherit the Earth: Peace and Nonviolence in a Time of Climate Change with Author John Dear Book Review of: They Will Inherit the Earth: Peace and Nonviolence in a Time of Climate Change, John Dear, ORBIS… Editor No Comments
14 Jan 2018 Dancing With Elephants Mindfulness Training For Those Living With Dementia, Chronic Illness or an Aging Brain (2017), Jarem Sawatsky, Winnipeg: Red Canoe Press… Editor No Comments
21 Aug 2017 Kenotic Ecclesiology: Select Writings of Donald M. Mackinnon John C. McDowell, Scott A. Kirkland, Ashley John Moyse, (editors), Rowan Williams (Foreword), Fortress Press, 2016 by Ron Dart There… Editor 2 Comments
28 Aug 2015 White Gulls & Wild Birds Essays on C.S. Lewis, Inklings and Friends & Thomas Merton, edited by Ron Dart, Abbotsford: St. Macrina Press; 85 pp.… Editor No Comments
23 Aug 2015 A Gentler God: Breaking Free of the Almighty in the Company of the Human Jesus Breaking free of the Almighty in the company of the human Jesus, Menangle: Albatross Books, Douglas Frank, 2010; 390 pp.… Editor No Comments
13 Aug 2015 Gratitude Books One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to LIVE FULLY Right Where You Are, Ann Voskamp, Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2010, 237 pp;… Editor No Comments
11 Aug 2015 Chasing the Scream The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs, Johann Hari, New York: Bloomsbury, 2015, 389 pp. WN: An… Editor No Comments
10 Aug 2015 A Philosophical Anthropology of the Cross The Cruciform Self, Brian Gregor, Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2013, 261 pp. From the back cover: Brian Gregor… Editor No Comments
29 Jul 2015 On Being Human Sexual Orientation and the Image of God, C. Norman Kraus, Eugene: Cascade Books, 2011, 113 pages A brief excerpt: Since… Editor No Comments
09 Jun 2015 Lament For a Nation: Then and Now Lament For a Nation: Then and Now, Ron Dart, New York: American Anglican Press, 2015; 38 pp. This is a great… Editor No Comments
14 Apr 2015 Atheist Delusions The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies, David Bentley Hart, New Haven & London: Yale Divinity Press, 2009, 253pp. An… Editor No Comments
11 Apr 2015 A Farewell to Mars An Evangelical Pastor’s Journey Toward the Biblical Gospel of Peace, Brian Zahnd, Colorado Springs: David C. Cook, 2014, 208pp. An… Editor No Comments
20 Mar 2015 The Church’s Peace Witness The Church’s Peace Witness, edited by Marlin E. Miller & Barbara Nelson Gingerich, Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1994, 228 pp. An… Editor No Comments
02 Mar 2015 The Fall of the Prison Biblical Perspectives on Prison Abolition, Lee Griffith, Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1993. 258pp. WN: This is a profound piece of… Editor No Comments
25 Feb 2015 Violence, Hospitality, and the Cross Reappropriating the Atonement Tradition, Hans Boersma, Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2004, 288 pages. WN: Both in dialogue and in reading… Editor No Comments
26 Jan 2015 The Executed God The Way of the Cross in Lockdown America, Mark Lewis Taylor, Fortress Press, 2001, 208 pp. excerpts: “Is it a… Editor No Comments
26 Jan 2015 The Biblical Revelation of the Cross A Bible Study of the Atonement of Jesus Christ - the Righteous Servant, Norman McIlwain, Oak Wood Publishing House, 2006… Editor No Comments
26 Jan 2015 Solving Hell A Mystery Story, by Chris Friesen, A Thesis Presented to the Faculty of Mennonite Brethren Biblical Seminary (Fresno, CA), In… Editor
25 Jan 2015 Rogue State A Guide to the World’s Only Superpower, William Blum, Common Courage Press, Monroe, Maine, 2000, 308 pp. A former Canadian… Editor
24 Jan 2015 Reason, Faith, and Revolution Reason, Faith, and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate, Terry Eagleton, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2009, 185… Editor
24 Jan 2015 The War on Terrorism and the Terror of God Lee Griffith, Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2002, 399 pp. “What would this mean if it were true that we love God… Editor
24 Jan 2015 The Myth of Religious Violence and Migrations of the Holy The Myth of Religious Violence and Migrations of the Holy My thanks to Oxford University Press for a review copy… Editor
25 Nov 2014 Just War Against Terror The Burden of American Power in a Violent World, Jean Bethke Elshtain, New York: Basic Books, 2003, 240 pp. The… Editor
13 Jun 2014 Francis Schaeffer and the Shaping of Evangelical America Barry Hankins, Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2008, 272 pp. An excerpt: Barry Hankins allows irenically that Schaeffer’s “arguments have not stood… Editor
29 Apr 2014 “Farewell, Rob Bell” A Biblical Response to Love Wins, Larry Dixon, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2011, 70 pp. This very sad, even some… Editor
29 Apr 2014 Christian Anarchy Jesus’ Primacy over the Powers, Vernard Eller, Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1987. Jacques Ellul first introduced me to this theme after… Editor
28 Apr 2014 Bloomfield Avenue A Jewish-Catholic Jersey Girl’s Spiritual Journey, Linda Mercadante, Cambridge, Massachussets: Cowley Publications, 2006; 211 pages Linda was a friend from… Editor
21 Apr 2014 Blowback The Costs and Consequences of American Empire, Chalmers Johnson, New York: Henry Holt, 2000, 268 pp. It is the human… Editor
10 Apr 2014 Against The Death Penalty Christian and Secular Arguments Against Capital Punishment, Gardner C. Hanks, Herald Press, 1997; 208 pages After this review was published… Editor
22 Feb 2014 Beyond Retribution A New Testament Vision for Justice, Crime, and Punishment,Christopher D. Marshall, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2001, 342 pages. An… Editor
22 Feb 2014 The Death Penalty An Historical and Theological Survey, James J. Megivern, New York/Mahwah, N. J.: Paulist Press 1997, 641 pages. An excerpt: “In… Editor
22 Feb 2014 No Future Without Forgiveness WN: Desmond Mpilo Tutu, New York: Doubleday, 1999, 294 pp. I wrote this review several years ago. Some felt I… Editor
20 Feb 2014 The Lost World of Genesis One Ancient Cosmology and the Origins Debate, John H. Walton, Downer's Grove: IVP Academic, 191 pp. An excerpt: For decades agnosticism… Editor
18 Feb 2014 God’s Just Vengeance Crime, violence and the rhetoric of salvation, Timothy Gorringe, Cambridge University Press, 1996, 280 pages An excerpt: "This book examines… Editor
26 Jan 2014 Compassionate Justice An Interdisciplinary Dialogue with Two Gospel Parables on Law, Crime, and Restorative Justice, Christopher D. Marshall, Eugene Oregon: Cascade Books,… MasterEditor No Comments
