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July 2017

July 14, 2017

Non-Yogis Like Me Should Not Practice Yoga. There, I Said it.

In a popular online Yoga for Complete Beginners video, the instructor begins by inviting participants...

July 03, 2017

Sketches of the Three Kingdoms of Christianity

“Our Father in Heaven. Your Kingdom Come.” This familiar prayer has been spoken by Christians...

June 2017

June 19, 2017

Master of None’s ‘Religion’ Episode and the Representation of Religion

In the episode entitled ‘Religion’ in the much anticipated second season of Aziz Ansari’s show...

June 12, 2017

Let the Rivers Clap

"Let the rivers clap their hands, let the mountains sing together for joy." --Psalms...

June 06, 2017

Holy Breath

We need Holy Breath now more than ever.

May 2017

May 29, 2017

Why We Need the Cursing Psalms

Today in my morning prayers I read Psalms 58. If you are not familiar, Psalms...

May 26, 2017

The Liturgy is an Old Growth Forest

“The liturgy creates a universe brimming with fruitful spiritual life, and allows the soul to...

May 25, 2017

Selling Chips and Enlightenment

My local grocer is selling severed Buddha heads and Tostitos on the same display. I...

May 21, 2017

Liturgy as Ecology

I attend a High Mass Anglo-Catholic Parish in Vancouver called Saint James. There are...

May 18, 2017

Pale Green

In the spring, The pale yellow-green leaves of the maples Bleed into the rich yellow...

May 08, 2017

What’s in a Name? Decolonizing Personal Spiritual Ecologies

Being present to a person, place, or organism, we listen to what they might say...

May 04, 2017

The Promise and the Peril of Interfaith Dialogue

We live in a time of deep religious, racial and political strife. Is religious diversity...

April 2017

April 18, 2017

The Gardener

There is nothing that convicts me of the both the naturalness and reality of the...

April 06, 2017

Is Pluralism Compatible with Secularism?

I'm just thinking out loud. Is Pluralism compatible with Secularism? You might be thinking, well,...

March 2017

March 23, 2017

From Punjab to British Columbia

Today on 'Experience the Sacred: Where Spirit Meets World in Vancouver' the radio show I...

March 18, 2017

Lost in Lent

Of course God is present to all things, but She cannot be confined to any...

March 04, 2017

The Tower of Silence

I recently did an interview with three Zoroastrians who live here in Vancouver. As I...

February 2017

February 26, 2017

Homily: Living Symbols

For how can we truly believe in the return of the Beloved Son, if we...

February 11, 2017

Two Takes on the Decline of Religion

In the end, I agree with both Tippet and Dreher, the future of religion is...

January 2017

January 12, 2017

Sacred Groves

In the beginning, the tree of life emerged as a tiny seedling.

January 09, 2017

Unanswered Questions in Scorsese’s ‘Silence’

Is Jesus the icon of the Christ that we must look for in every culture?...

January 03, 2017

Theodicy in ‘The 100’

Vancouver has recently seen a very unusual arctic front that has not only dropped several...

December 2016

December 06, 2016

This is What Reconciliation Looks Like

On November 1, I wrote that our ancestors are asking for forgiveness through us. News...

December 05, 2016

When Worlds Collide

We have an endless supply of nuance for our own group, and none for the...

November 2016

November 17, 2016

Dwelling in the Wilderness: A Monastic Spiritual Ecology

[Seminar Presentation delivered at the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability (IRES) at the University...

November 11, 2016

Love and Rage in Trump’s America

Feeling my Reaction The Gospel reading for November 9th, the day after Donald Trump won...

November 01, 2016

Our Ancestors are asking Forgiveness through Us

During the Pagan celebration of Samhain, the veil between the worlds is said to be...

October 2016

October 29, 2016

The Young Lions of Standing Rock

Thinking of an opening line for this post, I walked to the sink to fill...

October 24, 2016

The Mighty Fraser

Crossing a small pair of train tracks, the smell of fish grows stronger and the...

October 14, 2016

Spiritual Ecology is not Always Natural Ecology

One of my spiritual practices, is, some days after work, instead of taking the bus...

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