By Martha Thomsen and ChristianWeek on
Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish was born a refugee in the Gaza Strip in February 1955. Today, he and his five children live in Toronto. I Shall Not Hate chronicles the years in between. Abuelaish relates powerful memories of boyhood in Jabalia…Read More→
By Kurt Armstrong and ChristianWeek on
Like a lot of people who grew up in evangelical circles, I’ve never been able to shake the feeling that God is angry with me. From as early as I can remember, I’ve known that I’m a sinner and therefore…Read More→
By Kurt Armstrong and ChristianWeek on
This dense little book is another sign of the vibrant, lively work going on in “The Little Parish that Could,” St. Margaret’s Anglican Church in Winnipeg. The chapters originated with an ambitious theological consultation in 2008 on questions about sexuality…Read More→
By Kurt Armstrong and ChristianWeek on
If you like books with a shallow, spoon-fed plot and paper-thin, one-dimensional characters (the psychopathic Muslim hitman, the powerful and deceptive feminist, the heroic, ex-Navy Seal patriot) designed to ramp up our collective anxiety about Iran, North Korea, the UN,…Read More→
By Elfrieda Neufeld Schroeder and ChristianWeek on
Miroslav Volf dedicates his book of essays, Against the Tide (originally published in The Christian Century 1996-2008), to Tomislav Simic, a mentor to the author during his formative years in Serbia. In an appendix, Volf writes a short reflection about…Read More→
By Roy R. Jeal and ChristianWeek on
This bright, cheerful book calls Christians to think closely about a surprisingly neglected yet intriguingly central part of belief and confession: the ascension of Jesus. Brothers Tim and Aaron Perry draw our attention to the event and the idea of…Read More→