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Canadian Books Archive
Canadian Books Archive
| January 2008 |
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Mark Buchanan is a pastor on Vancouver Island, but he has managed to write five acclaimed books. His latest, Hidden in Plain Sight, is built around this hint: ̉The life you want is already at hand: Right now.
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Eric E. Wright spent 16 years in Pakistan, and now lives in Ontario. Both settings are featured in The Lightning Fire, a suspense novel in which a freelance writer for a major Toronto paper stumbles upon a file proving a link between a group of terrorists, laundered drug money and a plot to attack U.S. Interests from Canadian soil.
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| July 2008 |
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Nancy Reeves: Spirituality for Extroverts (Abingdon Press, 2008). Does prayer have to be silent? Does meditation have to be solemn? If I'm an extrovert, can I worship God? These are the questions addressed by Victoria, B.C. clinical psychologist, spiritual director, poet and author Nancy Reeves - and her answers are no, no and yes. She offers tips for those who love extroverts.
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Barbara Nickel: Domain (Anansi, 2007). Barbara Nickel's poetry explores how and where the boundary lines of our domains are drawn, how our homes are built, loved and lost. An award-winning author of children's books, she lives in Yarrow, B.C. with her family. Her poetry was also featured in Half in the Sun, an anthology of Mennonite writing in B.C.
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Sonya Grypma: Healing Henan ( UBC, 2008).Subtitled 'Canadian Nurses and the North China Mission, 1888 - 1947, this book remedies a lack of coverage of nurses and nursing in the many books about Protestant missions in China. Sonya Grypma is an associate professor of nursing at Trinity Western University in Langley, B.C.
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Richard Blackaby: Unlimiting God (Multnomah, 2008). Chancellor of Canadian Southern Baptist Seminary and co-author of numerous books with his father Henry (including 'Experiencing God Day-by-Day'), Richard Blackaby encourages readers to "increase your capacity to experience the divine." He examines scripture, tells stirring stories about believers around the world and offers probing questions for further sudy.
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Jean Vanier: Becoming Human (Anansi, 2008). In this 10th anniversary edition of his CBC Massey Lecture Series, Jean Vanier proposes that by opening ourselves to outsiders - those we perceive as being weak, different or inferior - we can achieve true personal and societal freedom. Vanier is the founder of L'Arche, an international network of communities for people with intellectual disabilities.
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| August 2008 |
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Douglas Farrow: Nation of Bastards (BPS Books, 2007). Subtitled 'Essays on the end of marriage,' this blunt, impassioned work by an associate professor of Christian Thought at McGill University in Montreal offers an "expose" of the implications of same-sex marriage. Farrow says the title "is meant to be prophetic: a warning of disenfranchisement, of loss of birthright."
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Mike Stewart: No Crowds Present (Fresh Wind Press, 2007) These 'reflections on contemplation and divine friendship' are based on sermons delivered at St. Matthew's Anglican Church in Abbotsford, B.C. Mike Stewart explores how we can come away from the crowds and become more aware of Jesus in our daily lives.
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| September 2008 |
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Margo Swiss, editor: Poetry as Liturgy (St. Thomas Poetry Series, 2007). Remembering Gerald Manley Hopkins' proclamation that "the world is charged with the grandeur of God," editor Margo Swiss says Christian poets (14 of whom - all Canadians - are represented in this anthology), "in the practice of their art, may be said to perform a liturgical service to God and for their audience."
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John Redekop: Politics Under God (Herald Press, 2007). Described by Bruce Clemenger, president of the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada, as "a timely and passionate primer on politics . . . from a Christian perspective," Politics Under God is an ideal pre-election read. Redekop is a retired professor of political science at Wilfrid Laurier University and Trinity Western University.
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Deborah Gyapong: The Defilers (Castle Quay, 2006). An RCMP officer in Nova Scotia finds redemption, aided by a pastor she suspects of murder. She decides she must find God's help, despite having run from faith after being seduced by a priest when she was a teenager. Deborah Gyapong was a producer for the CBC for 12 years and now writes on religion and politics for Christian publications.
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Kathy Bousquet, editor: This is My Story (Castle Quay, 2008) . These 'stories from the front lines' celebrate 100 years of Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada missions. Dozens of missionaries tell of their experiences all over the world; the editor hopes readers will develop a "passion to see God's kingdom fulfilled on earth."
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| October 2008 |
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Christopher Page: Spirit Life (Path Books, 2007) "What will a truly and deeply human life look like?" Christopher Page, an Anglican rector in Victoria, B.C., offers intimate and practical reflections on this passage: "The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control." (Galatians 5:22-23)
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Craig A. Evans: Fabricating Jesus (IVP, 2006) Craig Evans, a professor of New Testament at Acadia Divinity College in Nova Scotia, takes a hard look (to considerable acclaim) "at some of the sloppy scholarship and misguided theories that have been advanced in recent years about Jesus," noting he's "appalled at much of this work."
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Herbert O'Driscoll: Prayer Among Friends (Path Books, 2008) "If we [acknowledge] that everything is part of God's creation and that our entire human experience is indeed entheos - in God - then almost everything we say and do is in some sense prayer." So says Herbert O'Driscoll, an Anglican minister now retired in Victoria, BC.
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Byron Rempel-Burkholder & Dora Dueck: Northern Lights (Wiley, 2008) The 46 contributors to this new anthology of Christian writing in Canada showcase their faith through memoir, poetry, fiction and meditation. Among the remarkably diverse group are Bruce Cockburn, Joy Kogawa, Brian Stiller, Rudy Wiebe, Lorna Dueck, Maxine Hancock, Preston Manning, Mary Jo Leddy and Mark Buchanan.
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| November 2008 |
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Sigmund Brouwer: Thunderbird Spirit (Orca Books, 2008) Canadian author Sigmund Brouwer has written several youth-oriented sports novels for the general market, published by Orca Books, based in Victoria, B.C. Thunderbird Spirit deals with racial issues and a life-threatening situation in the midst of a hockey championship. Brouwer has also written a number of Christian books.
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Paul Chamberlain: Talking About Good and Bad Without Getting Ugly (IVP, 2005) Subtitled 'a guide to moral persuasion,' this books offers a guide to discussing issues such as abortion, gay marriage and euthanasia in a pluralistic society. Chamberlain, who teaches at Trinity Western University in Langley, BC, encourages Christians not to miss the opportunities to influence others that come our way every day.
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Elizabeth Elbourne: Blood Ground (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2008) Elizabeth Elbourne of McGill University in Montreal examines the complex relationship between the Khoekhoe people, the British Empire and the London Missionary Society in southern Africa at a time of intense conflict - when disparate groups competed to mobilize Christianity for their own political ends.
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| December 2008 |
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James R. Payton Jr.: Light From the Christian East (IVP Academic, 2007) James Payton, who teaches at Redeemer University College in Ancaster Ontario, has written 'an introduction to the Orthodox Tradition' which is highly recommended by Orthodox and Protestant scholars alike.
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Paul Bramadat & David Seljak, editors: Christianity and Ethnicity in Canada (University of Toronto Press, 2008) Eleven scholars explore the complex relationships between religious and ethnic identity within nine major Christian traditions in Canada. They discuss the ways in which changes in the ethnic composition of these traditions influence religious practice and identity. This book complements Religion and Ethnicity in Canada.
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Don Ranney & Ray Wiseman: When Cobras Laugh (Capstone, 2008) A compelling tale of mission life in the trenches of India and South Africa: cultural prejudices, racist attitudes, political manoeuverings and grace and forgiveness in the midst of human weakness. Will the journey be more about helping others or changing themselves? This is fiction with a message.
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Paul C. Burns, editor: Jesus in Twentieth Century Literature, Art and Movies (Continuum, 2007) This first volume in 'UBC Studies in Religion' gathers several scholars to highlight some intriguing links between several different portraits of Jesus throughout the twentieth century; they show how the artists in question offer a creative response to the realities of the human condition of our time.
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Donna Dawson: Vengeance (Word Alive Press, 2008) When FBI agent James Benedict sets off on a cruise to Hawaii, he is hoping for two weeks of relaxation, but when passengers begin to die of horrendous boils he is forced to seek the connection between the victims. Dawson's local paper, The Kitchener-Waterloo Record, says Vengeance "has a plot that's the equal of those in bestselling thrillers."
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James Cantelon: When God Stood Up (Wiley, 2007) Dave Toycen, president of World Vision Canada rightly says that "Jim Cantelon's book captures dramatically the desperation and urgency of the AIDS pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa." Cantelon is founder and president of VisionLedd, a Christian charity based in Toronto.
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