I am always on the lookout for good resources to enhance spiritual life during Advent, my favourite liturgical season. So I’m especially grateful for All Creation Waits. This lyrical Advent calendar first came out as a slender paperback in 2016. It proved so successful, translated into a number of languages and with sales of over…
In 1906, Vienna, Austria, young Elsa loves watching her older brothers play chess. Intrigued by how they move pieces across the board, she cheers at their wins and empathizes with their losses. Most of all, she longs to play too. One brother tells her she’s too young and the other says that girls aren’t allowed…
Alvin Plantinga, arguably North America’s preeminent reformed philosopher, is the subject of a lively study, The Problem of God in Alvin Plantinga. Plantinga leveraged reformed perspectives in a broader academic world. His comfort with the American academic universe began early. As a first year Calvin student, Plantinga won a major scholarship to Harvard. With Dutch…
Reading Beauty and Justice is like walking through an art gallery. Each paragraph has the potential to capture one’s imagination, causing one to linger before moving to the next piece. Makoto Fujimura, the artist, partners with his wife Haejin Shim Fujimura, the lawyer. This is a winsome picture of two lives and vocations joining. They…
The narrative arc in Mary Kooy’s How Did I Get Here? An Immigrant’s Odyssey is framed by the encouraging voices of a Dutch community leader, a high school principal, and a faculty advisor. Yet the emotional content is dominated by a far more formidable force: her mother. Only by rejecting her mother’s voice does Mary…
Ever been grateful for houseflies? Me neither! Living on a farm most of my life, I know houseflies and was never once glad to see them. So, the title of Elise Tegegne’s book intrigued me – In Praise of Houseflies. I hoped it wasn’t some shallow assortment of Pollyanna musings. To my delight, it was…
Firefly fulfils Anglo-Australian poet Kevin Hart’s longstanding desire to publish “a long book of poems each . . . in nine tercets.” The first poem “Rain,” has some challenging metaphors (“Ghost rain when poor men marry, ravens too”), serving notice that Firefly takes work to read. But it then unfolds into an engaging poem about…
Look at this branch they made for us. / So what if they forgot the leaves? / We can always build a nest somewhere else. / You have to love the face / that it joins one tree to the next, / and that it lies perfectly straight.
As I enter the fourth year of my Bachelor of Arts in English Writing, people often ask me: “What do you hope to do after you graduate?” A reasonable question, one I have asked myself, but I don’t always have a direct answer. There are many things I could do after graduating. However, the focus…
Redeemer’s art gallery is reopening after summer renovations with the exhibit The Book of Nature, featuring five artists’ work inspired by God’s creation. The exhibit includes oil paintings, textile art, woodcut prints, cyanotype images and mixed media artwork incorporating found objects. Bullet holes in the sky “The Book of Nature means, for me, the natural…
The Wendell Berry books were taken from their pride of place in our glass-fronted bookcase and piled around my favourite reading chair. Berry’s essays, fiction and poetry have been a source of wisdom and vision for me since I first picked up The Unsettling of America half a lifetime ago. Hearing of his death at…
Sorrow / is backed up at your border / It is another day in the life of the world / on its head / Sorrow and need / are lined up / and leaning against the line / you have drawn around yourself
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