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December 2018

December 04, 2018

Look to the Trees: Homily, Dec. 4, 2018

[Today I am preaching the Homily at worship at Vancouver School of Theology] Gospel Reading...

November 2018

November 02, 2018

A Night for All Souls in the Local Cemetery

"And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance." --Kahlil Gibran...

April 2018

April 16, 2018

The Annunciation of Spring

Above the altar of the Blessed Sacrament Chapel of Saint James Anglican Church, where I...

October 2017

October 23, 2017

On the Mass

There is a kind of 'surface tension' to the Mass. By this, I mean that...

May 2017

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 21, 2017

Liturgy as Ecology

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

March 2017

March 18, 2017

Lost in Lent

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

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...

September 2016

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...

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...

March 2016

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 20, 2016

The Orchard Rosary: Christianity as Cosmic Liturgy

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

December 2015

December 24, 2015

Praying with the Elements for Advent: Christmas Eve: Spirit

Reflecting on the Infinite, we celebrate the element of Spirit; in our bodies, in our...

December 20, 2015

Praying with the Elements for Advent: Week 4: Air

“The universe began with a great outpouring of cosmic breath that has complexified over billions...

December 13, 2015

Praying with the Elements for Advent: Week 3: Water

Needed this week: Small bowl of water Reflecting on the Infinite, we celebrate the element...

December 06, 2015

Praying with the Elements for Advent: Week 2: Earth

The bread in my hand is the body of the cosmos.

November 2015

November 28, 2015

Praying with the Elements for Advent: Week 1: Fire

Over the next four weeks I will share one of five sections from a workshop...