Book Review
Confessions of a Guilty Freelancer
For more than forty years, William O’Rourke penned essays that were as incisive as they were wide-ranging, bringing his lively wit, curmudgeonly tone, and biting intellect to personal, political, and literary topics as diverse as a...
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The Wisdom of White Wing
Donald McQueen, who served in the Royal Canadian Air Force and is a retired Canadian Federal Government worker, compiled this three-volume work on the channeled teachings of an entity called “White Wing,” from papers that had been...
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Two Winters in a Tipi
“In 1989, a midnight August storm unleashed a bolt of fire, connecting heaven and earth through the mountain farmhouse in which I had been living for the past seven years,” writes Mark Warren, a naturalist and educator for the...
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Tree Spirits: Tales and Encounters
“When trees, once intensely worshipped, become regarded as mere matter or just so many board feet of lumber, a profound change has taken place in human consciousness,” writes author and artist Heather Preston. “Something held to be...
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Between the Shadow and the Flame
Gripping adventure scenes alternate with lucid and accessible discussions of philosophy, science, and religion in Geoffrey Lee Hodge’s debut novel. Set amidst the devastation of a pandemic and the aftereffects of global nuclear war,...
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Sarona
During the 1870s, small groups of religious Germans, the “Templers,” had begun to settle in the Sharon Plain north of the port of Jaffa, then a desolate and remote outpost of the Turkish Ottoman Empire; they sought to build a...
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Colonial Adventure and Other Stories
The brutal war that put an end to British colonialism in Southern Africa is the subject of the first of H. Ann Ackroyd’s free-form verse stories in her collection, "Colonial Adventure and Other Stories". Set during the years 1936 to...
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Surprised by a Paradoxical God
When confronted with the paradoxes inherent in Christianity, even those who call themselves followers of Jesus may be tempted to turn away from him, just as some of his disciples did when they could not reconcile who and what he was with...
