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November 2017

November 11, 2017

A Season for Kenosis

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

September 2017

September 16, 2017

Watching ‘The Christians’ in Secular Vancouver

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

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...

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 03, 2017

Theodicy in ‘The 100’

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

November 2016

November 11, 2016

Love and Rage in Trump’s America

Feeling my Reaction The Gospel reading for November 9th, the day after Donald Trump won...

September 2016

September 12, 2016

The Hajj and 9/11

This week marks the beginning of the Hajj, the final month of the Muslim calendar, when...

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...

January 2016

January 07, 2016

Thoughts on whether Christians, Jews and Muslims worship the same God

Perhaps God is not a being whose parts and passions we can compare in a...

December 2015

December 03, 2015

Worlds Less Visible

When white North Americans like myself see historic sites on the landscape, we read them...