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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"Back Story is a series about some of the regular contributors to igNation. It’s a set of short interviews with writers, their influences, how they go about writing, and what they hope their work for igNation will accomplish."...
"Back Story is a series about some of the regular contributors to igNation. It’s a set of short interviews with writers, their influences, how they go about writing, and what they hope their work for igNation will accomplish."...
"Back Story is a series about some of the regular contributors to igNation. It’s a set of short interviews with writers, their influences, how they go about writing, and what they hope their work for igNation will accomplish."...
"Back Story is a series about some of the regular contributors to igNation. It’s a set of short interviews with writers, their influences, how they go about writing, and what they hope their work for igNation will accomplish."...
"Back Story is a series about some of the regular contributors to igNation. It’s a series of short interviews with writers, their influences, how they go about writing, and what they hope their work for igNation will accomplish."...
"Back Story is a new feature about some of the regular contributors to igNation. It’s a series of short interviews with writers, their influences, how they go about writing in general and especially their work for igNation....
St. Bonaventure University "(then a college) is where Merton taught for several terms all the while struggling with the path he might take. Poet? Professor? Volunteer at Catherine de Hueck Doherty's Friendship House in Harlem? Join a religious order? Become a Franciscan?"...
In 1940, when Thomas Merton began contemplating life as a Catholic, he resorted to the Google and Wikipedia of the time. He flipped through the pages of The Catholic Encyclopaedia and was excited by what he read about the Jesuits....
Canada 150 & Me is igNation's celebration of Canada's 150th birthday. Read what our contributors have to say about being Canadian and what it means to them. In today's post, the Canadian arts and education worlds come together....
In this six-part series, Kevin Burns selects a book for each week of Lent. Each book speaks to one of the great traditions within Catholic culture. Each book also shows how its author integrates that tradition. Six different approaches to the same journey through the desert of Lent to the Easter promise of resurrection. In this sixth and final week, we follow Monty Williams S.J. on the Ignatian path – wherever opportunity allows....
