In this spiritually-formative children’s picture book, author Roger Hutchison spells out the truth of Psalm 139:4: “Even before a word is on my tongue, O Lord, you know it completely.” Hutchison shows children the many ways in which they can offer prayers to God. Sparrow begins each morning by spreading his wings and praising God…
Michael Shoemaker is a gifted, rising voice from the mountain west. His first collection, Rocky Mountain Reflections, is a heartfelt, thoughtful and oftentimes powerful debut. An ecosystem of engaging poetry, prose, short stories and photography, this collection may grow your faith, feed your soul and nourish your belief in the goodness of the human condition….
When Harmen Boersma asked if I’d be interested in reviewing his book, I gladly embraced the opportunity to engage with his thoughts on the popular topic of democracy. Thanks to the political upheaval that seems to be gripping many parts of the world, bookstore shelves are flooded with books on democracy. Although Harmen Boersma’s book…
Many Christians know firsthand the challenges that come from studying scripture and the concern of interpreting it accurately. Questions arise as a reader tries to piece together the dense and rich information of the text, and these questions many times are not answered so simply on a Sunday morning. The BibleProject podcast excels at tackling…
As Yuna, the protagonist of Marie Tang’s imaginative book, watches her parents “fold, fit, and tuck old things into new spaces,” the young girl wonders “how she fit into her new home.” Yuna and her parents have just immigrated from Japan to the United States, and she is homesick.As Yuna listens to neighbourhood children play,…
During the closing prayer at my friend’s memorial a few months ago, the officiating pastor included a request for “the courage to grieve.” This phrase still hovered in my mind as I opened Jason Dykstra’s memoir about the stillborn death of his third child, Ezra. What does courageous grief look like when a much-loved son…
Author and scholar Daniel Taylor has a succinct definition of the genre of memoir: “Memoir is remembered pain.” Ineke Neutel’s One Thousand Fears certainly fits that category as she probes her wounded childhood in the frontline city of Nijmegen during WWII. Neutel’s father was Reformed pastor Wiebe van Dijk, a man responsible for his wife,…
Freud’s Last Session is an imagined conversation between the psychologist Sigmund Freud and the author/theologian C. S. Lewis. The film uses the interaction to bring the work of these two men into a space where they comment on and critique one another. There is, of course, discussion on the limitations of religion and the problem…
It was an impulse buy. I was looking through the 70 percent off Christmas clearance rack at London Drugs when I spotted a book cover with the name “Peter Mansbridge” (of CBC’s The National). For almost thirty years, this trusted icon with the fatherly face on the evening news informed and comforted our nation through…
“Don’t tell me what the poets are doin’.” So wrote Gord Downie, the late leader singer of the well-known Canadian band The Tragically Hip, in 1998. Perhaps he didn’t mean this sentiment all that personally or seriously (he also published his own poetry collection with the not so serious title Coke Machine Glow). A serious…
“This is Nanette. A little girl with a head full of birds.” So begins author Alexandra Garibal’s poignant narrative about two neurodiverse children who become friends. Nanette is bullied by her peers because they think her actions are strange; the young girl likes to eat ham with her fruit yogurt, to sit for lengthy periods…
They say that wisdom comes with age. It isn’t always true, but when we turn to Canadian singer-songwriter, Bruce Cockburn, such deep wisdom is all there on his stunningly beautiful 2023 album, O Sun O Moon (True North). By the artist’s own admission, this is a collection of songs written by an old man. But…
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