Pulpit and Politics: Competing Religious Ideologies in Canadian Pubic Life is now available in an Ebook format. The book is a provocative exposé of …
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My recent book book Pulpit and Politics has been reviewed in the Clarion Journal of Spirituality and Justice, an on line publication. The reviewer is Ron Dart, a professor in the Department of Philosophy & Politics at the University of the Fraser Valley in Abbotsford, B.C. You will see that he recommends the book and is pleased that it deals with religion as an authentic force in public life, rather than dismissing it out of hand as is commonly done in secular academic analysis. He criticizes me, though, for being soft on religious progressives while being hard on religious conservatives. Also, he disapproves of my describing the current reality in Canada as one of competing religious ideologies, one progressive and the other conservative.
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Michael Enright, The Sunday Edition
I was interviewed about my book Pulpit and Politics by two CBC Radio hosts in early January 2012. Michael Enright, host of CBC Radio’s The Sunday Edition talked with former MP Bill Blaikie and me …
Read MoreFr. Andrew Britz and Dennis Gruending
I had two recent launches in Saskatchewan for my book Pulpit and Politics. One of the events was at St. Peter’s College in Muenster, where I was a boarding school student for three years in high school and first …
Read MoreJuliet O'Neill and Dennis Gruending (Koozma Tarasoff photo)
About 130 people attended an Ottawa launch on November 2nd for Dennis Gruending’s new book, Pulpit and Politics: Competing Religious Ideologies in Canadian …
Read MoreTed Britton (left) and Dennis Gruending at book signing
I signed copies on November 5th of my new book, Pulpit and Politics: Competing Religious Ideologies in Canadian Public Life, at Brittons magazine store in the Glebe neighbourhood in Ottawa. Brittons has been selling …
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A number of Canadian newspapers have carried an excerpt from my new book Pulpit and Politics: Competing Religious Ideologies in Canadian Public Life. I was asked to choose the excerpt to be used and decided upon a …
Read MoreSeveral Post media newspapers carried a question and answer piece on either October 29 or 30 by journalist Paul Gessell with Dennis Gruending regarding his new book Pulpit and Politics: Competing Religious Ideologies in Canadian Public Life. The newspapers carrying the piece included the Ottawa …
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