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October 2016

October 01, 2016
In the summer of 2008, I found myself yelling ‘legalize democracy!’ at a crowd of...

September 2016

September 12, 2016
This week marks the beginning of the Hajj, the final month of the Muslim calendar, when...
September 04, 2016
This week I read J. Philip Newell’s lovely book Christ of the Celts. While it’s...

August 2016

August 29, 2016
This weekend I had the privilege of interviewing Charles Brandt, a hermit-priest in the Roman...
August 22, 2016
Today started like a normal Monday. I woke up at 6:45 am and stumbled to...
August 12, 2016
I often take walks in the Mountain View Cemetery near my house in Vancouver. Opened...
August 03, 2016
Dew mats down swirling tufts of uncut grass just off the sidewalk. Glass, cigarettes, plastic...

July 2016

July 22, 2016
This week I was feverishly trying to finish transcribing the nearly fifty interviews I conducted...
July 09, 2016
I am no expert on racial politics. And after the events of the past week,...
July 03, 2016
What initially drew me to Catholicism as my current spiritual home was a realization, after...

June 2016

June 27, 2016
The soft staccato of a Celtic harp feels radically different from the bustling Friday night...
June 19, 2016
Today I went to Mass as I often do on Sundays. It was an expected...
June 14, 2016
Weary from a mild stomach bug from the night before, I woke up to an...
June 13, 2016
This weekend I was privileged enough to attend the International Indigenous Leadership Gathering at the...

May 2016

May 30, 2016
The power of myth and symbol in the Bible must be rediscovered if Christianity is...
May 24, 2016
Following the tinkling creek up to Whyte Lake, in West Vancouver, BC, I was surrounded...
May 07, 2016
As soon as I arrived in Sedona, I headed over to the Chamber of Commerce...
May 05, 2016
At a recent workshop I gave on Spiritual Ecology in the Salish Sea, the participants...

April 2016

April 23, 2016
It is near sunset at Christ in the Desert Benedictine monastery in Abiquiu, New Mexico....
April 15, 2016
I recently read Rory McEntee and Adam Bucko's The New Monasticism: An Interspiritual Manifesto for Contemplative...
April 09, 2016
Global Significance of Sacred and Religious Forests In addition to the vast areas of protected...
April 07, 2016
The Restoration of a Holyscape It must be remembered however, that forests are not static...
April 06, 2016
  The Axis Mundi: A Forest Becomes Sacred In addition to expressing a deep colonial...
April 05, 2016
Between Puritan Landscape and Wilderness Upon purchasing a new piece of land, New England settlers...
April 03, 2016
  As the Patheos Blue Banner loads, a pop up add elbows its way into...

March 2016

March 26, 2016
Holy Saturday is a time of breathless anticipation. Of mourning, of waiting. So, after participating...
March 25, 2016
The Sea is rising; the Arctic glaciers are vanishing; February was the hottest February in 137...
March 22, 2016
Lord, I remember being taught to love my enemies. In grade school it seemed noble...
March 20, 2016
Sunset. A choir of blackbirds sings in the cottonwoods. A cloister of turkey vultures circles...
March 14, 2016
Is Union with God something Mormons seek? If so how would you characterize it?
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