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January 2020

January 19, 2020

On the Spirituality of Light and Dark

Homily delivered on Jan. 26, 2020 at St. Mary's Anglican Church Readings Holy Eucharist: Propers...

December 2019

December 20, 2019

A Gospel of Joy

Delivered Dec. 15, 2019, Gaudete Sunday, Third Sunday of Advent at Saint Mary’s Anglican...

November 2019

November 25, 2019

Thomas Merton the Forester

During All Souls/All Saints Days this year, I was lucky enough to travel to Kentucky...

August 2019

August 19, 2019

Crucifixion of the Earth

The other day I went for a walk along a high bluff overlooking the Fraser...

June 2019

June 17, 2019

Tree-nity Sunday

Sunday, my friend and I hiked to the top of Grouse Mountain. It is a...

June 04, 2019

Season of Light

I am very grateful for the great flux between light and darkness here in Vancouver;...

January 2019

January 29, 2019

A Dying Grebe

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

January 03, 2019

Advent and the Dark Night of the Soul

Introduction What do Advent and the Dark Night of the Soul have in common? From...

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...

September 2018

September 10, 2018

In the Presence of Absence: A Spiritual Ecology of the Transcendent

Holding a Candle to the Darkness We have all heard the story. Christianity, with its...

August 2018

August 19, 2018

The Wounds of Christ

It is easy to feel distant from the person Jesus, a poor Jewish man who...

August 15, 2018

Abusing Christ

Recently, The Onion, a delicious news parody website, published a brutal headline. It read: “Biblical...

July 2018

July 31, 2018

Are Religion and Spirituality Incompatible?

Introduction I increasingly come into contact with folks who have a difficult time understanding why...

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...

June 2018

June 18, 2018

Dispatches from the Camino De Santiago: Settling into the Journey

But bit by bit, step by step, my heart has softened as my feet have...

May 2018

May 23, 2018

Dispatches from the Camino de Santiago: Setting Off

A few weeks after I had defended my PhD and graduated from the University of...

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 Crown of Thorns

You cannot walk far in Vancouver without seeing the remnants of the Pre-European forest. Silent...

April 16, 2018

The Annunciation of Spring

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

March 2018

March 22, 2018

Desert Spirituality for the Rainforest: A Lenten Pilgrimage

But once we decide to sit in the desert and let its subtle energies work...

February 2018

February 26, 2018

The Shape of Water as Anthropocene Fairytale

[SPOILERS] I suppose it was appropriate to the theme that it was pouring rain as...

November 2017

November 11, 2017

A Season for Kenosis

To empty the self is to dig down to the source of the living waters...

October 2017

October 23, 2017

On the Mass

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

October 20, 2017

‘It’s Always in the Desert’: Breaking Bad’s Anti-Spiritual Ecology

While Breaking Bad features many beautiful scenes of the desert. If Walt is an anti-hero,...

September 2017

September 26, 2017

Living Reconciliation

On Saturday evening, my Parish, Saint James Anglican Church, hosted a reconciliation dinner for First...

September 16, 2017

Watching ‘The Christians’ in Secular Vancouver

The other night, I went to see the Lucas Hnath play 'The Christians.' The play...

September 09, 2017

Religions are Rivers of Life

“Religions are like rivers: they all flow to the same sea.” ― Elif Shafak, The...

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...