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September 2018

September 10, 2018
Holding a Candle to the Darkness We have all heard the story. Christianity, with its...

August 2018

August 19, 2018
It is easy to feel distant from the person Jesus, a poor Jewish man who...
August 15, 2018
Recently, The Onion, a delicious news parody website, published a brutal headline. It read: “Biblical...
August 12, 2018
Is there sufficient reason to hope? As if hope were an equation, whose range of...
August 04, 2018
Just as the ocean and the shore are inseparable, we are a unity of body-mind....

July 2018

July 31, 2018
Introduction I increasingly come into contact with folks who have a difficult time understanding why...
July 18, 2018
Arriving in Santiago Falling to my knees, I found myself at an unexpected altar. I...

June 2018

June 18, 2018
But bit by bit, step by step, my heart has softened as my feet have...

May 2018

May 23, 2018
A few weeks after I had defended my PhD and graduated from the University of...

April 2018

April 30, 2018
You will go out in joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and...
April 26, 2018
Back in 2011, toward the end of my master of forestry program, I began to...
April 18, 2018
Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (1931–1990) began teaching publically in the 1960s.  Bhagwan criticized socialism and Gandhian...
April 16, 2018
You cannot walk far in Vancouver without seeing the remnants of the Pre-European forest. Silent...
April 16, 2018
Above the altar of the Blessed Sacrament Chapel of Saint James Anglican Church, where I...

March 2018

March 22, 2018
But once we decide to sit in the desert and let its subtle energies work...
March 08, 2018
As the Age of the Anthropocene ripens, debates over how to respond are raging. Behind...

February 2018

February 26, 2018
[SPOILERS] I suppose it was appropriate to the theme that it was pouring rain as...

January 2018

January 04, 2018
In this New Year, may we take the time to both be and become. May...

November 2017

November 11, 2017
To empty the self is to dig down to the source of the living waters...

October 2017

October 23, 2017
There is a kind of 'surface tension' to the Mass. By this, I mean that...
October 20, 2017
While Breaking Bad features many beautiful scenes of the desert. If Walt is an anti-hero,...
October 10, 2017
As the leaves yellow, fade, and             fall. I am...

September 2017

September 26, 2017
On Saturday evening, my Parish, Saint James Anglican Church, hosted a reconciliation dinner for First...
September 18, 2017
In a recent Grist.org post, the author displays a bar graph which shows in descending...
September 16, 2017
The other night, I went to see the Lucas Hnath play 'The Christians.' The play...
September 10, 2017
Redemption comes in tiny ripples, not crashing waves. Redemption arrives quietly like swallows—one or two...
September 09, 2017
“Religions are like rivers: they all flow to the same sea.” ― Elif Shafak, The...

August 2017

August 11, 2017
On Sunday I took two walks. One before church and one after. The first took...
August 10, 2017
Having grown up in Orange County, California, malls will always feel familiar, and wild rivers...
August 06, 2017
The high tide pushed the gull feathers into a straight line along several hundred feet...
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