I am reading various books with dramatic stories of immigrants and refugees to Canada – stories of persons who have fled civil war, genocide, and terrorism. While many details in these books are heart-wrenching, shocking, and extreme, what I find interesting is what is actually most moving because the things that move me most areContinue reading “Cultivating patriotism”
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“Daughter of Family G” by Ami McKay
This evening (at 11:35 p.m.), I finished reading Ami McKay’s book, Daughter of Family G: A Memoir of Cancer Genes, Love and Fate. It was quite an absorbing and engaging read.
World Book Day
Today is World Book Day, as designated by UNESCO. When John Paul II addressed the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization in 1980, he said: Education consists in fact in enabling man to become more man, to “be” more and not just to “have” more and consequently, through everything he “has”, everything he “possesses”, toContinue reading “World Book Day”
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A Time to Die
“The cemeteries of the abbeys will always be in bloom.” This evening I read a beautiful book, A Time to Die: Monks on the Threshold of Eternal Life, written by Nicolas Diat and with a forward by Robert Cardinal Sarah. Diat travelled to several monasteries in France to visit monks and learn from them aboutContinue reading “A Time to Die”
Nineteen Reads of 2019
It’s been a stimulating, enriching, and enlivening year of reading across topics of religious freedom, minority experiences, foreign affairs, Judaism, Christianity, and cultural criticism.
Reading: “I Want You to Be”
One of my favourite spiritual writers and the recipient of the 2014 Templeton Prize is Czech priest and philosopher Tomáš Halík. His previous books have such evocative titles as: Patience with God: The Story of Zacchaeus Continuing In Us and Night of the Confessor: Christian Faith in an Age of Uncertainty.
Shabbat for Christians
Last Christmas, I was searching for a book to take with me on Christmas holidays. I asked God, the Divine Librarian, to help me choose one. Since I was going to France, a book that had been on my shelf but that I had not yet read caught my eye when I read the backContinue reading “Shabbat for Christians”
Amanda Achtman 