Reviews
IT’S ALWAYS RISKY when you buy tickets for a stage or film adaptation of a beloved book. Taking my grandchildren to see Narnia, the musical...
continue readingI HAVE COME to realize that I probably felt a little skeptical about the new Sing! Hymnal from Getty Music. I wasn’t aware of this, but I suppos...
continue readingTwo TAP book reviewers share their reading recommendations for the summer.
continue readingCRISIS is not new. Crisis, such as a major war or plague, is often the hinge point of historical research – but what is different today is the globalization and accessibility of crisis. Societies are intertwined more than ever, which means a crisis across the world that we may have never heard of or been affected by now has a direct impact on our daily lives. This new context requires a re-evaluation of the Christian response to crisis. Jesse A. Zink’s book, Faithful, Creative, Hopef...
continue readingIN THIS powerful picture book about a girl experiencing loss, The Good for Nothing Puddle helps children explore the nature of grief and loss. It does not offer the quick fix of a superficial band aid...
WHEN I was a child, I learned Old Testament stories in Sunday school (often told using felt board figures) and in illustrated Bible story books at home. But three Sundays each month I also heard lesso...
THE Rev. Canon David Roseberry is Provincial Canon for Mission in the Anglican Church in North America. In 2016, he retired from Christ Church, Plano, Texas, after 31 years of ministry. He has written...
continue readingMia Anderson follows in the illustrious tradition of poet-priests such as John Donne, George Herbert and Gerard Manley Hopkins. But she can also add to her resumé: actor, chorister, shepherd an...
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 pro...
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...
continue readingHousehold 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...
continue readingWE 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...
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