Going Big: Lessons on Success in Business, Life and Faith; Poetry in Place; The Father & the Feminine; Proclaiming Christ in a Pluralistic Age; Tragedy of the Commons; The Sacrifice; From a Distance

New media roundup

• Going Big: Lessons on Success in Business, Life and Faith, by Richard Magnussen (Siretona, 2025). Life lessons from retired CEO of Magnussen Home. An elder at an Ontario Baptist church, he grew a family business into a global enterprise.
• Poetry in Place: Poetry and Environmental Hope in a Southern Ontario Bioregion, edited by Deborah Bowen (Guernica, 2025). An anthology by 40 poets of various religious backgrounds reflecting on land and spirituality, assembled by a professor emerita from Redeemer University.
• The Father & the Feminine: Exploring the Grammar of God and Gender, by Spencer Boersma (Wipf and Stock, 2024). Theologian at Acadia Divinity College argues male language for God need not be problematic, but can’t be our only language since Scripture and tradition also authorize female.
• Proclaiming Christ in a Pluralistic Age: The 1978 Lectures, by J. I. Packer (Crossway, 2024). The late theologian from Regent College tackles secular humanism, pluralism and universalism. Uses the evangelistic efforts of Paul to help believers share their faith in an age of skepticism.
• Tragedy of the Commons: A Christological Companion to the Book of 1 Samuel, by Daniel Stulac (Cascade, 2023). Briercrest Old Testament prof artistically explores how Saul’s story foreshadows the gospel.
• The Sacrifice: Yearning for Messiah, by Jack A. Taylor (Word Alive, 2024). Prolific B.C. pastor’s new novel portrays Anna and Simeon in the decades before the Messiah came.
• From a Distance, by Tina Friesen (Independent, 2024).  Novel by a Manitoba pastor who helped found a church in B.C. and taught Bible school in the Philippines. Struggling artist Greta Calder and graduate student Paul Winthrop wonder if they’ve met before (TinaFriesen.com).

Canadian creatives

“Created from two crossed forms of recycled fibre, this piece expresses the intersection of divinity and humanity, the intersection of the Cross where Christ releases His mercy within us to become merciful. Colossians 3:12 in the KJV offers the exhortation to put on ‘bowels of mercy’ and compassion. This crisscrossed form reminds me of the hope I have to remember His mercy toward me when I am challenged to extend mercy, love and life to others.”

Bowels of Mercy (24” x 24”, ideal for wall décor or as a table feature) by Patty Bowman Kingsley. 

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