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June 2019

June 17, 2019

Tree-nity Sunday

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

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...

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...

May 2017

May 21, 2017

Liturgy as Ecology

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

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...

January 2017

January 03, 2017

Theodicy in ‘The 100’

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

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...

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...

July 2016

July 03, 2016

A Reluctant Critique of Adam Miller’s General Theory of Grace

What initially drew me to Catholicism as my current spiritual home was a realization, after...

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...

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...

April 2016

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 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...

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 14, 2016

Divine Union: Notes on possible Catholic/Mormon Dialogue

Is Union with God something Mormons seek? If so how would you characterize it?

March 07, 2016

Of Lions and Lambs: The Ecology of Things

In a recent blog post at A Rocha, an International Christian organization that does amazing...