Kevin Burns

Ottawa-based author and editor, Kevin Burns is a frequent contributor to igNation. His latest book, Impressively Free – Henri Nouwen as a Model for a Reformed Priesthood and co-authored with Michael W. Higgins, has just been released by Paulist Press in the United States and by Novalis in Canada.


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    05 Sep

    I checked the author's name on the title page, Frederick Crowe SJ, and I began flipping through my mental contacts lists to try and recall how I knew that name. I knew I knew it, but at the time I couldn't remember how or why I remembered it. The subtitle on the title page helped as it referenced the name Bernard Lonergan SJ. Suddenly I realised that I had something quite extraordinary in my hands. The pages in this blue box comprised what was to be Frederick Crowe's final published book: Christ and History: The Christology of Bernard Lonergan from 1935 to 1982....

    06 Jun

    British historian Keith Wrightson describes the city of Newcastle-upon-Tyne during the devastating plague of 1636 as "a society under immense stress" at a time of larger political and religious tensions. He has created a memorable and moving book after stumbling onto a document in a local archive, a will containing the dying wishes of someone with the plague. It was time to put things in order very quickly, but this individual couldn't write and so his family sought the help of the door-to-door document writers of that era: a scrivener. In 1636, one of many plagues hit the bustling city of Newcastle-upon-Tyne in England's north-east....

    12 Feb

    May no one blame me that I write so much about insignificant people, sisters, brothers, relatives, neighbours, burghers, peasants, youth, about domestic, simple, and childish things, and about myself. For who will do it if we don't? In the Bible, in the Roman histories and chronicles, in the Holy Scriptures, in the seven liberal arts, and in the other arts and philosophers and poets once cannot really find us. Therefore, if my book and records are preserved and continued, our descendants will also know something to say about us; otherwise, it will be as if we had never been....

    12 Feb

    May no one blame me that I write so much about insignificant people, sisters, brothers, relatives, neighbours, burghers, peasants, youth, about domestic, simple, and childish things, and about myself. For who will do it if we don't? In the Bible, in the Roman histories and chronicles, in the Holy Scriptures, in the seven liberal arts, and in the other arts and philosophers and poets once cannot really find us. Therefore, if my book and records are preserved and continued, our descendants will also know something to say about us; otherwise, it will be as if we had never been....

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