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May 2020

May 21, 2020

Gratitude in Heavy Times

The parks are starting to open up again. I am grateful to have been able...

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 21, 2019

Corpus Christi on Solstice Eve

In the Corpus Christi we are celebrating the real presence of the sun in wheat;...

June 14, 2019

Today’s Office

Today my office is a rocky beach just below UBC. Today my desk chair...

June 07, 2019

Walking Contradictions

The weather was perfect. I took a gravel trail of the main rode. I found...

June 04, 2019

Season of Light

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

May 2019

May 28, 2019

Finding Light in the Gaps

This week, as I often do, I walked along my favorite trail in Pacific Spirit...

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...

October 2018

October 30, 2018

Learning to Live in Place

I recently stumbled on an amazing network! Those of you interested in social science, humanities...

October 25, 2018

Landform Literacy

“No settled family or community has ever called its home place an “environment.” None has...

October 23, 2018

The Spiritual Ecology of Silence

This November, I will be on a panel at the American Anthropological Association's annual conference....

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 12, 2018

On Hope

Is there sufficient reason to hope? As if hope were an equation, whose range of...

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...