Reviews
Mia Anderson follows in the illustrious tradition of poet-priests such as John Donne, George Herbert and Gerard Manley Hopkins. But she can also add t...
continue readingJulie Lane-Gay and Bill Reimer share their annual book reviews.
continue readingThe Best Christmas Pageant Ever tells the story of six wild, intimidating children who basically bully their way into taking all the main parts in a church’s Nativity play, with unexpectedly profound results.
continue readingNow there is a fine annotated edition of this war memoir from priest and historian Dr. Ross Hebb, a fellow Maritimer, and the author of A Canadian Nurse in the Great War.
continue readingEVERYONE experiences grief. We have grieved the deaths of friends and family, including our only son, Sean, who died at the age of eleven. For Canadian Tim Challies, a Christian pastor, author a...
Household of God, Volume 2: 1994–2024 celebrates the 150th anniversary of St. Thomas’s Church on Huron Street in Toronto. It supplements the first volume, which appeared in 1993 to mark th...
WE ARE what we read. At a retreat, author Julie Lane-Gay of Vancouver was asked what had shaped her as a Christian. She writes in the introduction to The Riches of Your Grace: Living in the Book of Co...
continue readingIT’S BECOMING something of a pattern: every time Anthony Hopkins wins an Oscar, he goes on to star in a movie about C.S. Lewis.Thirty years ago, after winning his first trophy for Silence of the...
continue readingBy Tyler James Dunlop with Tim den Bok Independently published, 2023 Review and Comment by Margaret Cottle, MD
continue readingJAMES is feeling sorry for himself. It is a hot summer evening in Pittsburgh and he longs for some adventures with his cousins gathered next door at his grandparents for a family reunion. But he is la...
continue readingCHRISTMAS FILMS often come all sugar-coated and candy-cane sweet. But not The Holdovers. Think, instead, bleak midwinter and bittersweet. Instead of Home Alone it is rather a school-alone movie as a w...
continue readingI MUST ADMIT from the onset that I am “totally hard-wired” for this book. Ken Haigh’s On Foot to Canterbury: A Son’s Pilgrimage covers so many areas of personal interest &ndash...
continue readingCurl up with a mug of cider or hot chocolate and enjoy some of these new titles, which our West Coast reviewers recommend.
continue readingFOR their spiritual formation children need Bible story books but they also need prayer books suited to their young age. There are certainly some classics out there and a new one has just joined their...
continue readingI MUST CONFESS that I had not heard the term “historical espionage thriller” before, but now that I have read The Watchmaker’s Daughter, it applies perfectly. Larry Loftis’ boo...
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