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August 2019

August 19, 2019

Terra Nullius: The Political Ecology of Green Space

“Why is everything in the woods with you people?” –Cruella Deville, Once Upon a Time,...

January 2019

January 29, 2019

A Dying Grebe

At the bottom of a steep flight Of stairs that lead into the ocean, Between...

July 2018

July 18, 2018

Dispatches from the Camino de Santiago: The End is the Beginning

Arriving in Santiago Falling to my knees, I found myself at an unexpected altar. I...

April 2018

April 26, 2018

What’s in a Name? Ecological Literacy as Spiritual Practice

Back in 2011, toward the end of my master of forestry program, I began to...

April 16, 2018

The Annunciation of Spring

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

June 2017

June 12, 2017

Let the Rivers Clap

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

May 2017

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...

January 2017

January 12, 2017

Sacred Groves

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

June 2016

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 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...

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 20, 2016

The Orchard Rosary: Christianity as Cosmic Liturgy

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