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May 2020

May 24, 2020

Low Tide

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

December 2019

December 20, 2019

A Gospel of Joy

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

June 2019

June 17, 2019

Tree-nity Sunday

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

June 07, 2019

Walking Contradictions

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

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...

October 2018

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 04, 2018

Body-Mind Unity

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

April 2018

April 16, 2018

The Annunciation of Spring

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

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 09, 2017

Religions are Rivers of Life

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

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...

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 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.

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...

October 2016

October 24, 2016

The Mighty Fraser

Crossing a small pair of train tracks, the smell of fish grows stronger and the...

October 14, 2016

Spiritual Ecology is not Always Natural Ecology

One of my spiritual practices, is, some days after work, instead of taking the bus...

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 22, 2016

The Morning Commute as Pilgrimage

Today started like a normal Monday. I woke up at 6:45 am and stumbled to...

July 2016

July 09, 2016

Different Worlds: Race as Bodyscape

I am no expert on racial politics. And after the events of the past week,...

June 2016

June 27, 2016

Labyrinths within Labyrinths

The soft staccato of a Celtic harp feels radically different from the bustling Friday night...

June 19, 2016

Reclaiming Sacred Spaces

Today I went to Mass as I often do on Sundays. It was an expected...