“The past is never dead,” William Faulkner once said, then added, “it’s not even past.” In her debut historical novel Revolution Songs, Carissa Halton, an award-winning Alberta author, explores the Crowsnest Pass mining strike of 1932. Halton told Christian Courier that she was fascinated by the bitter labour dispute, not just because of its importance…
The six years Brenda and I lived in Lansing, Michigan, were bookended by two training courses. Each, in their own way, helped me find a footing in that strange country. And now, as the world is full of confusion, I find the lessons I learned then more valuable than ever. The first course was in…
I once engaged in an abrasive act of NIMBYism. I willingly participated with a large group of neighbours in a “not-in-my-back-yard” demonstration against some folks who had just moved into the area. This was an act of radical inhospitality for which I offer no apology. Here’s what happened. In the early 1980’s, a group of…
I’m drawn toward poetry that is visceral, descriptive and accessible rather than academic. I was excited to discover this new collection by Vilma Blenman, which accomplishes all three. Like a filmmaker, Blenman pulls the reader into her scenes, so that we feel as though we are experiencing them first-hand. Blenman has lived her adult life…
Emancipation is a word for a work in progress / five stretched syllables patient as a long sword / hummed then strummed. / It’s a word for a road winding through woods, / a river running north, a start standing still, / a light in a house on a hill
Dave Larsen’s debut novel, Green Street in Black and White, compactly narrates the backstory of the upheaval of Englewood, a middle-class Chicago neighbourhood, as integration began. The book poses as fiction, though it tells painful truths. The names have been changed – I suspect to protect kind, scared, belatedly guilt-beset white Christian sisters and brothers….
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