The Riches of Rock Art
by John WilsonA recent book on the history of Native American rock art invites readers to experience both a profound sense of otherness and a fundamental human bond, neither one cancelling out the other. Continue Reading »
The Old Evangelization
by Bronwen McSheaAs a historian who studies missionaries, I am sometimes asked by my fellow Catholics: How did the Church think about evangelization in the past compared to the present? Typically it is clear that they regard one age as wiser than the other. The more progressively inclined assume that . . . . Continue Reading »
The History of Canada's Residential Schools
by Douglas FarrowThe tragedy began with government-mandated violation of parental rights, an error gaining currency again today. Continue Reading »
Academic “Settler Culture”
by Paul SiewersAcademics condemn “settler culture” to serve their own ideological ends without realizing that they themselves are the latest “settlers” seeking to displace the native culture. Continue Reading »
Native Americans in the Land of Uz
by John WilsonIn Island of the Innocent, Diane Glancy writes as a seer, but one who is very down-to-earth. Continue Reading »
The Past in Full
by Charles L. GlennThere’s a book I keep in the bathroom at home, a big blue volume of 750 pages titled, somewhat ironically, The Little, Brown Book of Anecdotes. A terrific book to browse in, with more than four thousand brief anecdotes about more than two thousand individuals from ancient times to the near . . . . Continue Reading »
Sketches of Native America
by John WilsonToo often, portrayals of Native Americans depict them solely as victims or as absurdly idealized paragons. Continue Reading »
An American Virgil
by Matthew MillinerAmong the more adventurous sallies in church décor in recent memory is the dancing saints sequence at San Francisco’s Saint Gregory of Nyssa Episcopal Church, where Hypatia, Charles Darwin and William Blake among others have been drafted into the communio sanctorum. Perhaps the program is less a . . . . Continue Reading »
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