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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...
June 2017
June 19, 2017
Master of None’s ‘Religion’ Episode and the Representation of Religion
In the episode entitled ‘Religion’ in the much anticipated second season of Aziz Ansari’s show...
June 12, 2017
Let the Rivers Clap
"Let the rivers clap their hands, let the mountains sing together for joy." --Psalms...
June 06, 2017
Holy Breath
We need Holy Breath now more than ever.
May 2017
May 29, 2017
Why We Need the Cursing Psalms
Today in my morning prayers I read Psalms 58. If you are not familiar, Psalms...
May 26, 2017
The Liturgy is an Old Growth Forest
“The liturgy creates a universe brimming with fruitful spiritual life, and allows the soul to...
May 25, 2017
Selling Chips and Enlightenment
My local grocer is selling severed Buddha heads and Tostitos on the same display. I...
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...
May 08, 2017
What’s in a Name? Decolonizing Personal Spiritual Ecologies
Being present to a person, place, or organism, we listen to what they might say...
May 04, 2017
The Promise and the Peril of Interfaith Dialogue
We live in a time of deep religious, racial and political strife. Is religious diversity...
April 2017
April 18, 2017
The Gardener
There is nothing that convicts me of the both the naturalness and reality of the...
April 06, 2017
Is Pluralism Compatible with Secularism?
I'm just thinking out loud. Is Pluralism compatible with Secularism? You might be thinking, well,...
March 2017
March 23, 2017
From Punjab to British Columbia
Today on 'Experience the Sacred: Where Spirit Meets World in Vancouver' the radio show I...
March 18, 2017
Lost in Lent
Of course God is present to all things, but She cannot be confined to any...
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...
February 11, 2017
Two Takes on the Decline of Religion
In the end, I agree with both Tippet and Dreher, the future of religion is...
January 2017
January 12, 2017
Sacred Groves
In the beginning, the tree of life emerged as a tiny seedling.
January 09, 2017
Unanswered Questions in Scorsese’s ‘Silence’
Is Jesus the icon of the Christ that we must look for in every culture?...
January 03, 2017
Theodicy in ‘The 100’
Vancouver has recently seen a very unusual arctic front that has not only dropped several...
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...
December 05, 2016
When Worlds Collide
We have an endless supply of nuance for our own group, and none for the...
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...
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...
November 01, 2016
Our Ancestors are asking Forgiveness through Us
During the Pagan celebration of Samhain, the veil between the worlds is said to be...
October 2016
October 29, 2016
The Young Lions of Standing Rock
Thinking of an opening line for this post, I walked to the sink to fill...
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...
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