Reviews

★ A Change of Heart: Helping Those with Heart Disease Make a Full Recovery in Both Body and Mind

When my mother was diagnosed with cancer nine years ago, I naively thought that her shocking announcement (delivered calmly by telephone) was the worst of it: both my parents are medical professionals so I assumed ... Read More »

February 18, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

★ Braving the Void: Journeys into Healing

By Michael Greenwood

February 18, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Midlife Man: A Not-So-threatening Guide to Health and Sex for Man at His Peak

By Art Hister

First a confession: before I read it in public I took the dust cover off Midlife Man: A Not-So-Threatening Guide to Health and Sex for Man at His Peak by Art Hister, MD.The illustration is ... Read More »

February 18, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Get Me to the Church Online: A Point and Click Guide to Ecumenical Resources Online

By Cheryl Perry, ed.

Over the past couple of years, I’ve read and reviewed dozens of instructional Internet books: guides aimed at beginners, complicated upgrade manuals for advanced users, and just about everything in between. A few of these ... Read More »

February 18, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Daring to Be United: Including Lesbians and Gays in the United Church of Canada

By Alyson C. Huntly

Chances are when a church dares to address the issue of homosexuality within its own ranks all hell is set to break loose – and it did in 1988 when the United Church of Canada ... Read More »

February 18, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Spiritscapes: Mapping the Spiritual and Scientific Terrain at the Dawn of the New Millennium

By Mark Parent

Organized religion does not adapt quickly to the times, but in Spiritscapes, author Mark Parent argues that such contemporary ideas as the New Age movement, the new physics, feminism, liberation theology, Gaia, and alternative medicine ... Read More »

February 18, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Prayer: The Hidden Fire

By Tom Harpur

Tom Harpur, religion columnist for the Toronto Star and host of the Vision-TV series Life After Death, aims to discuss how we send thoughts of thanks or petition to God, and why. He uses his ... Read More »

February 18, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Can God Be Trusted? Faith and the Challenge of Evil

By John G. Stackhouse Jr.

In attempting to remove confusion from some dimensions of what is essentially an insoluble issue, John G. Stackhouse Jr., a professor of religion at the University of Manitoba, has written a book that will work ... Read More »

February 18, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Celebrating Our Cultures: Language Arts Activities for Classroom Teachers

By Barbara DuMoulin and Sylvia Sikundar

Teachers looking for language arts ideas that can be integrated into a multicultural theme need look no further. Authors Barbara DuMoulin and Sylvia Sikundar have collaborated on a teacher resource book that not only gives ... Read More »

February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Safari

By Robert Bateman and Rick Archbold

Robert Bateman has earned an international name for himself as an artistic, distinctly realistic chronicler of Canadian wildlife. But he has also made many trips to Africa, and Safari is the result of his life-long ... Read More »

February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

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