From -2015-vol-38-no-2″>the Catalyst, Summer 2015
The News: A Userâs Manual
By Alain de Botton
Signal, 2014
Reviewed by Brad Wassink
Given the profound impact the news has on our lives â how we use our time, spend our money, and cast our votes â the media deserves much more focus in our public justice […]
From -2015-vol-38-no-2″>The Catalyst, Summer 2015
Live Justly
By Jason Fileta, Ronald J. Sider, Eugene Cho, Kimberly McOwen Yim, Shayne Moore, Rene Padilla, Nicholas Wolterstorff, and Sunia Gibbs
Micah Challenge USA, 2014
Reviewed by Monique Verhoef
I grew up on a steady diet of the phrase âwhere the rubber hits the road.â I recall it being used to say “let’s get real” […]
From -2015-vol-38-no-2″>The Catalyst, Summer 2015
The Comeback: How Aboriginals Are Reclaiming Power and Influence
By John Ralston Saul
Penguin Books, 2014
Reviewed by Michelle Nieviadomy
âThe Comeback is a timely book that captures an uncensored narrative of the current status of our nation. It depicts the relationship between Indigenous people and Canada. Saul brings […]
From -2015-vol-38-no-2″>The Catalyst, Summer 2015
Resisting Structural Evil: Love as Ecological–Economic Vocation
By Cynthia Moe–Lobeda
Fortress Press, 2013
Reviewed by Joe Gunn
In May last year, I co–taught a week–long course from the CPJ offices in Ottawa on âpublic theologyâ (offered by Waterloo Lutheran Seminary). We took students to visit theAssembly of First Nations and environmental groups, organized […]
From the-2015-vol-38-no-2″>Â Catalyst, Summer 2015
Canadian Medicare: We Need It and We Can Keep It
By Stephen Duckett and Adrian Peetoom
McGill–Queen’s University Press, 2013
Reviewed by Adrian Helleman
In this book, Stephen Duckett, an expert in public health, and Adrian Peetoom, an author and publisher who is well–known to some CPJ members, describe the current medicare system in Canada and […]
From The Catalyst, Summer 2015 Our Only World: Ten EssaysBy Wendell Berry Counterpoint, 2015 Reviewed by Janelle Vandergrift Before reading it, I assumed Our Only World would focus solely on climate and environment issues. Instead, Wendell Berry weaves an analysis of todayâs social and environmental issues as one in the same.
From -2016″>The Catalyst, Summer 2016
Faith and Politics Matters
Edited by John Milloy
âNovalis, 2015
Reviewed by Joe Gunn
Some Christians grew up believing (with Abraham Kuyper) that ânot a square inch of human existence stands apart from the sovereign claims of Christ.â But in John Milloyâs Catholic upbringing, âalmost everyoneâs parents told […]
From -2016″>The Catalyst, Summer -summer-2016″>2016
-summer-2016″>âThe Reason You Walk: A Memoir
By Wab Kinew
Viking Canada, 2015
Reviewed by Danielle Rowaan
âIt is hard to hate someone after you take them as a brother or sister,â writes Wab Kinew in one of the most moving scenes in The Reason You Walk. Kinewâs father, a residential […]
From -2016″>The Catalyst, Summer 2016
Disarming Conflict: Why Peace Cannot Be Won on the Battlefield
By Ernie Regehr
Between the Lines, 2015
Reviewed by Jennifer Wiebe
âPeace, no less than politics, is the art of the possible,â writes Ernie Regehr (O.C.). Regehr is widely respected as a peace researcher, security and disarmament specialist, and co–founder of Project Ploughshares. […]
From -2017″>the Catalyst, Summer 2017
The Vimy Trap, or, How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Great War
By Ian McKay and Jamie Swift
Between the Lines, 2016
Reviewed by Debbie Grisdale
April 9, 2017 marked the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Vimy Ridge where 3,598 Canadians died and 7,000 were wounded, with an estimated […]
