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June 2020

June 29, 2020

Cracks in Stony Soil

Our prayers trace the cracks in the stony soil of our hearts. Gradually the cracks...

June 01, 2020

Memento Mori

I want life to teach me to become better acquainted with death. During the more...

May 2020

May 24, 2020

Low Tide

Contemplative spirituality is tidal. There are seasons where the life giving waters of the spirit...

June 2019

June 17, 2019

Tree-nity Sunday

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

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...

September 2018

September 30, 2018

Reflections on Prayer

Walking a daily prayer practice is an important part of my Christian prayer life. I...

August 2018

August 04, 2018

Body-Mind Unity

Just as the ocean and the shore are inseparable, we are a unity of body-mind....

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...

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...

April 2018

April 30, 2018

The Trees of the Field Will Clap Their Hands

You will go out in joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and...

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...

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 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...

June 2017

June 06, 2017

Holy Breath

We need Holy Breath now more than ever.

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...

April 2017

April 18, 2017

The Gardener

There is nothing that convicts me of the both the naturalness and reality of the...

March 2017

March 18, 2017

Lost in Lent

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

March 04, 2017

The Tower of Silence

I recently did an interview with three Zoroastrians who live here in Vancouver. As I...

February 2017

February 26, 2017

Homily: Living Symbols

For how can we truly believe in the return of the Beloved Son, if we...

January 2017

January 12, 2017

Sacred Groves

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

January 03, 2017

Theodicy in ‘The 100’

Vancouver has recently seen a very unusual arctic front that has not only dropped several...

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...

November 01, 2016

Our Ancestors are asking Forgiveness through Us

During the Pagan celebration of Samhain, the veil between the worlds is said to be...