Tossed onto an Italian beach by a hostile sea, Enzo Rossi discovers that he not only has a concussion but also the ability to see developments and even God more clearly than ever. An architect by training, Enzo is recruited to save the deteriorating Bell Tower in Tuscany's city of San Gimignano. His new insights provide him with new solutions for fixing a centuries-old problem. Double Helix of God is about the mystical journey within and without the life of a gifted young man trying to bet...

Scarlett Carlyle came from Nova Scotia to the southern coast of England to direct St. Anne's Hospice, arriving just in time for the onslaught of the COVID 19 virus. What she was about to endure, and to lead, would alter the direction of the hospice and her life. Through her seemingly remote neighbour, Bert Wynman, she discovers new ways of taking the hospice story and the sheer force of the dignity of death to a national audience and to her own personal renewal.

The Unravelling is the story of how Canada made a covenant with its people — and how, over four decades of deliberate political choices dressed as economic necessities, that covenant was broken. Glen Pearson, who grew up in post-war Canada and watched the entire arc unfold in real time, tells this story with the moral seriousness it deserves: tracing the extraordinary post-war achievement of the Canadian middle class, the political forces that built it, and the ideological revolu...

Every night in Canada, tens of thousands of people sleep outside in one of the coldest climates on earth. They sleep in doorways and ravines, in encampments along riverbeds, in shelters built for emergencies that have become permanent addresses. They are not there because of who they are. They are there because of what we decided.Citizens of Nowhere is a reckoning with one of the most consequential and least honestly examined failures in modern Canadian history — the thirt...

Dan Costain has built a company worth billions by connecting the world. Synapse reaches two billion people across 190 countries. He has sat in the Oval Office. He has never been unreachable. Then his mother disappears. Donna Costain, 75, has spent twenty-two years working in one of the most remote regions of South Sudan — a place her son has never visited, a life he has never fully understood. When she is captured, Dan does what he has always done: he deploys every resource at his disposal...

In the spring of 1945, the survivors of the Depression and two world wars sat down and built a world. The welfare state. The United Nations. The Marshall Plan. NATO. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In the space of five extraordinary years, a generation educated by catastrophe produced the most ambitious and durable institutional architecture in human history. They built it because they had paid, in full, the price of knowing what happened when it did not exist.We are the...

Something is emptying out of Canadian life, and no one is quite naming it.The volunteers who used to come don't come anymore. The Legion halls and service clubs and community leagues are folding one by one. A country is retreating, house by house and heart by heart, into a comfortable and well-appointed solitude — even as it pours billions into building its future.In The Second Nation, Glen Pearson argues that Canada is making the same mistake twic...

On a Greek island built from the ashes of one catastrophe, a young Canadian anthropologist arrives to study how communities remember disaster — and finds, instead, a woman still trying to outrun one of her own.Isabella Conti has come to Santorini with nothing but a biscuit tin of her late grandmother's letters and a photograph of a man no one will name. What she uncovers — with the reluctant, then devoted, help of a scholar more used to studying grief than living inside it — is a l...

Echoes of Eden is a literary novel of ideas set against the moral unravelling of North America in the mid-2020s. Blending fiction, essay, and social commentary, it follows Thomas Avery, a 65-year-old writer for The Atlantic, as he undertakes a late-career effort to renew the moral language of public life at a moment when democracy, neighbourliness, and trust appear to be failing.Thomas believes that the Christian virtues which once quietly shaped civic cul...

What does it mean to be a Canadian? What binds communities together, sustains institutions, and preserves the moral integrity of a nation? Decency: The Quiet Heart of Canadian Citizens offers a profound answer: it is decency - the disciplined practice of fairness, care, honesty, and courage.Drawing on centuries of Canadian history, from Indigenous governance and early settlement to modern civic life, this book explores how ordinary citizens have shaped the country through ...

We live in an age of uncertainty. Reinhold Niebuhr saw it all coming, and in the process became America's greatest public theologian. He spent 50 years building a framework for understanding the human situation that is more urgently relevant than anything written since his death in 1971. We might simply call it the truth about ourselves - the truth that our political culture has been most systenatically avoiding. In a world that can't seem to address its anxieties, Niebuhr provides a roadm...

Throughout human history, the pursuit of serenity has been a quiet yet persistent theme. While civilizations have celebrated achievement, wealth, and conquest, the individuals and cultures that have endured over centuries understood that the ultimate measure of a life is not its accolades, but its inner coherence. Serenity—the calm integration of heart, mind, and spirit—is the hidden backbone of enduring moral and social accomplishment. From the sages of ancient Greece to the contemplative...