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The Liturgy is an Old Growth Forest

“The liturgy creates a universe brimming with fruitful spiritual life, and allows the soul to wander about in it at will and to develop itself there.” --Romano Guardini, The Spirit of the Liturgy read more

5/26/2017 6:00:51 PM by Jason M. Brown

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Selling Chips and Enlightenment

My local grocer is selling severed Buddha heads and Tostitos on the same display. I mean why not right? read more

5/25/2017 12:59:39 PM by Jason M. Brown

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Liturgy as Ecology

I attend a High Mass Anglo-Catholic Parish in Vancouver called Saint James. There are sometimes 12 people in the Chancel at a time, attending to the consecration of the Eucharist, swarming in... read more

5/22/2017 12:12:35 AM by Jason M. Brown

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Pale Green

In the spring, The pale yellow-green leaves of the maples Bleed into the rich yellow plumage of the just-arrived warblers. By the time the maple leaves are deep green with summer, The warblers will... read more

5/18/2017 1:51:14 PM by Jason M. Brown

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Open-Hearted Awareness and Emotions

When we don’t shift into open-hearted awareness, our hearts can be painfully closed, or they can be too open so that we’re frequently overwhelmed. Then we end up looking to our thoughts to create a... read more

5/16/2017 9:40:37 PM by Loch Kelly

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What's in a Name? Decolonizing Personal Spiritual Ecologies

Being present to a person, place, or organism, we listen to what they might say about the world, about ourselves, or about God. Perhaps it is with this practice that new names and thus, new worlds... read more

5/8/2017 3:23:00 PM by Jason M. Brown

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The Promise and the Peril of Interfaith Dialogue

We live in a time of deep religious, racial and political strife. Is religious diversity an asset or a liability in today’s society? read more

5/5/2017 12:13:21 AM by Jason M. Brown

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Spiritual Teachers in Contemporary Times

The main role of a teacher is to point you toward your own inner teacher. It was when I learned to look within that awake awareness showed me its own capacities, clarity, and love. It is important... read more

4/28/2017 4:43:09 PM by Loch Kelly

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The Gardener

There is nothing that convicts me of the both the naturalness and reality of the resurrection more than watching the cycles of birth, life, death, decay and rebirth that happen each year in the... read more

4/19/2017 12:35:37 AM by Jason M. Brown

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Vulnerability without Being Overwhelmed

Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung called neurosis the avoidance of legitimate suffering. We avoid suffering related to loss, disappointment, or growing pains because we don’t have the capacity to bear it... read more

4/18/2017 9:45:39 AM by Loch Kelly

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Is Pluralism Compatible with Secularism?

I'm just thinking out loud. Is Pluralism compatible with Secularism? You might be thinking, well, aren't they pretty much the same? Isn't a Pluralist society, where each is able to practice the... read more

4/6/2017 6:45:51 PM by Jason M. Brown

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Conscious Participation in Your Evolution

Humanity has made rapid progress during recent years in areas such as technology, medicine, and communications. Yet parts of our brain and consciousness still operate as if we’re living in primitive... read more

4/3/2017 4:41:17 PM by Loch Kelly

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From Punjab to British Columbia

Today on 'Experience the Sacred: Where Spirit Meets World in Vancouver' the radio show I host with a few other collaborators, I interviewed three members of the Sikh community who volunteer with... read more

3/23/2017 4:47:05 PM by Jason M. Brown

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