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October 2016

October 01, 2016

November 9th

In the summer of 2008, I found myself yelling ‘legalize democracy!’ at a crowd of...

September 2016

September 12, 2016

The Hajj and 9/11

This week marks the beginning of the Hajj, the final month of the Muslim calendar, when...

September 04, 2016

The Christ of the Celts

This week I read J. Philip Newell’s lovely book Christ of the Celts. While it’s...

August 2016

August 29, 2016

Spiritual Ecology on Vancouver Island

This weekend I had the privilege of interviewing Charles Brandt, a hermit-priest in the Roman...

August 22, 2016

The Morning Commute as Pilgrimage

Today started like a normal Monday. I woke up at 6:45 am and stumbled to...

August 12, 2016

The Birds of Burnaby

I often take walks in the Mountain View Cemetery near my house in Vancouver. Opened...

August 03, 2016

Vancouver Canopy

Dew mats down swirling tufts of uncut grass just off the sidewalk. Glass, cigarettes, plastic...

July 2016

July 22, 2016

Between Monks and Trumps

This week I was feverishly trying to finish transcribing the nearly fifty interviews I conducted...

July 09, 2016

Different Worlds: Race as Bodyscape

I am no expert on racial politics. And after the events of the past week,...

July 03, 2016

A Reluctant Critique of Adam Miller’s General Theory of Grace

What initially drew me to Catholicism as my current spiritual home was a realization, after...

June 2016

June 27, 2016

Labyrinths within Labyrinths

The soft staccato of a Celtic harp feels radically different from the bustling Friday night...

June 19, 2016

Reclaiming Sacred Spaces

Today I went to Mass as I often do on Sundays. It was an expected...

June 14, 2016

Mass Shootings and Ramadan

Weary from a mild stomach bug from the night before, I woke up to an...

June 13, 2016

The Meeting of Worlds: Attending the International Indigenous Leadership Gathering

This weekend I was privileged enough to attend the International Indigenous Leadership Gathering at the...

May 2016

May 30, 2016

On What Religion Is Not

The power of myth and symbol in the Bible must be rediscovered if Christianity is...

May 24, 2016

Sandstones of the Soul: From Forest to Desert and Back Again

Following the tinkling creek up to Whyte Lake, in West Vancouver, BC, I was surrounded...

May 07, 2016

Circumnavigating a Vortex: Fierce Landscapes are not Your Emotional Playground

As soon as I arrived in Sedona, I headed over to the Chamber of Commerce...

May 05, 2016

What’s in a Name: ‘We do not Name Places, Places Name Themselves’

At a recent workshop I gave on Spiritual Ecology in the Salish Sea, the participants...

April 2016

April 23, 2016

Wrestling God on the Chama River

It is near sunset at Christ in the Desert Benedictine monastery in Abiquiu, New Mexico....

April 15, 2016

New Wine in Old Winskins? Questions for the New Monastics

I recently read Rory McEntee and Adam Bucko's The New Monasticism: An Interspiritual Manifesto for Contemplative...

April 09, 2016

Making the Mormon Sacred Grove (Part 4)

Global Significance of Sacred and Religious Forests In addition to the vast areas of protected...

April 07, 2016

Making the Mormon Sacred Grove (Part 3)

The Restoration of a Holyscape It must be remembered however, that forests are not static...

April 06, 2016

Making the Mormon Sacred Grove: Part 2

The Axis Mundi: A Forest Becomes Sacred In addition to expressing a deep colonial...

April 05, 2016

Making the Mormon Sacred Grove: Part 1

Between Puritan Landscape and Wilderness Upon purchasing a new piece of land, New England settlers...

April 03, 2016

The Ecology of Reading Patheos

As the Patheos Blue Banner loads, a pop up add elbows its way into...

March 2016

March 26, 2016

The Forest Rosary

Holy Saturday is a time of breathless anticipation. Of mourning, of waiting. So, after participating...

March 25, 2016

Good Friday in the Anthropocene

The Sea is rising; the Arctic glaciers are vanishing; February was the hottest February in 137...

March 22, 2016

On Loving our Enemies

Lord, I remember being taught to love my enemies. In grade school it seemed noble...

March 20, 2016

The Orchard Rosary: Christianity as Cosmic Liturgy

Sunset. A choir of blackbirds sings in the cottonwoods. A cloister of turkey vultures circles...

March 14, 2016

Divine Union: Notes on possible Catholic/Mormon Dialogue

Is Union with God something Mormons seek? If so how would you characterize it?

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