Books

Fresh, ancient words for a fractured age

I read most of this book on the bus and on the subway, after dropping my daughter off at kindergarten on spring mornings that stubbornly ...
Book cover of Optic Heart.

Biography explores Christian poet

Optic Heart: A Biography of Margaret Avison, Volume 1: 1918-1977. By David A. Kent, The St. Thomas Poetry Series, 2026. If you want to know ...
Tents and temporary shelters in an encampment outside St. Stephen in-the-Fields.

A vivid snapshot from a troubling time

Encampment: Resistance, Grace and an Unhoused Community. By Maggie Helwig, May 2025. ISBN 9781552455043, e-ISBN 9781770568426, 200 pp, $24.95. I didn’t intend to review this ...
An open page of an old diary showing handwritten entries.

‘The old familiar hymns’

On Friday, April 6, 1917, a young artillery officer wrote in his little pocket diary, “Suddenly realized today was Good Friday & I expect all ...
A black and white photo of a thurifer and boat girl in St. Thomas, Huron Street.

Volumes tell rich history of ‘Smoky Tom’s’

Kent, David A. (ed.) Household of God: A Parish History of St. Thomas’s Church, Toronto. [Volume One: 1874-1993.] St. Thomas’s Church, 1993. ISBN 0969780206. 546 ...