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June 2016

June 13, 2016

The Meeting of Worlds: Attending the International Indigenous Leadership Gathering

This weekend I was privileged enough to attend the International Indigenous Leadership Gathering at the...

May 2016

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...

May 07, 2016

Circumnavigating a Vortex: Fierce Landscapes are not Your Emotional Playground

As soon as I arrived in Sedona, I headed over to the Chamber of Commerce...

May 05, 2016

What’s in a Name: ‘We do not Name Places, Places Name Themselves’

At a recent workshop I gave on Spiritual Ecology in the Salish Sea, the participants...

April 2016

April 23, 2016

Wrestling God on the Chama River

It is near sunset at Christ in the Desert Benedictine monastery in Abiquiu, New Mexico....

April 09, 2016

Making the Mormon Sacred Grove (Part 4)

Global Significance of Sacred and Religious Forests In addition to the vast areas of protected...

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 20, 2016

The Orchard Rosary: Christianity as Cosmic Liturgy

Sunset. A choir of blackbirds sings in the cottonwoods. A cloister of turkey vultures circles...

February 2016

February 29, 2016

Sacred Groves and Clear Cuts

In what ways does my life make more clear cuts necessary? Does my spiritual practice...

February 10, 2016

The Seeds of Lent

For the past several months I have been on the road for my dissertation research...

February 10, 2016

Canopies

A new crescent moon chases the sun over the jagged western horizon. A canopy of...

February 03, 2016

Landscapes of Return: A Former Mormon Missionary in Catholic Dominican Republic

Returning now, 13 years later, I was less fluent in Spanish, but more fluent in...

January 2016

January 01, 2016

What it Means to be a Spiritual Ecologist

For many of the rising generation, spirit is not so much a shimmery version of...

December 2015

December 13, 2015

Praying with the Elements for Advent: Week 3: Water

Needed this week: Small bowl of water Reflecting on the Infinite, we celebrate the element...

December 06, 2015

Praying with the Elements for Advent: Week 2: Earth

The bread in my hand is the body of the cosmos.

December 05, 2015

Olives and Bodhisattvas: Two Religious Centers that Foster Faith through Food

Perhaps that is what draws me to spiritual ecology, or to study monastic life; the...

December 03, 2015

Worlds Less Visible

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

November 2015

November 27, 2015

Fallow Deer and Vedanta

After my long drive through the Pacific Northwest, I arrived in Point Reyes National Seashore....

November 23, 2015

The Grotto

One of my first stops on my way south was in Portland, OR to see...

November 23, 2015

A Hurried Pilgrim: Introducing Holyscapes at Patheos

This week begins about six months of PhD field work throughout the Western US, where...