(March 10, 2022) Rufina Bazlova is a Belarusian embroidery artist, currently based in the Czech republic. Our Photo Essay this month includes highlights from her recent project, VYZHYVANKA, which began in August 2020, and has been ongoing with new works consistently appearing on Bazlova’s Instagram. She uses the visual language of Belarusian traditional embroidery, … [Read more...] about Rufina Bazlova: Embroidered chronicles of resistance in Belarus
Kathleen Adamson
The Rebel Christ: Scriptural support for a radical Jesus
By Kathleen Adamson, November 26, 2021 The Rebel Christ, Michael Coren, Dundurn Press, October 19, 2021, 180 pp., $19.99 Michael Coren’s new book The Rebel Christ is an inspired pleasure to read. It’s clear and well-paced arguments reveal a refreshingly fierce optimism, and an indignation that springs from Coren’s passion for Christianity’s … [Read more...] about The Rebel Christ: Scriptural support for a radical Jesus
Ivan Coyote: Bringing stories of fierce love and community building
by Kathleen Adamson, August 30, 2021 Care of: Letters Connections and Cures, Ivan Coyote, McClelland & Stewart, June 8, 2021, 256 pp., $18.89 Ivan Coyote knows our relationship with communication technology has drastically changed over the past decade. Online interactions have become the norm. First, because it was fashionable, and now, because it is … [Read more...] about Ivan Coyote: Bringing stories of fierce love and community building
Hannah Arendt: Deeply influential 20th century thinker embodies contradiction, passion and a proximity to history
By Kathleen Adamson (May 23, 2021) On Love and Tyranny: The Life and Politics of Hannah Arendt, written by Ann Heberlein, translated by Alice Menzies, House of Anansi, January 5, 2021, 272 pp., $24.70 Anne Heberlein’s new biography of Hannah Arendt sparkles with energy and clarity. Hannah Arendt’s brilliance as a writer and political thinker has long been … [Read more...] about Hannah Arendt: Deeply influential 20th century thinker embodies contradiction, passion and a proximity to history