The other day I posted about how I am enjoying the resurgance in interest in Johannine studies as of late. Two recent books I’ve been reading to this end: Paul N Anderson’s Archaeology, Jesus, and the Gospel of John: What Recent Discvories Show Us,” and Michael J. Gorman’s Paul and John in Harmony: A TheologicalContinue reading “Archeaology, John and Paul in Harmony: Two Books, Two Scholars, Fresh Thoughts, and New Scholarly Directions”
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How An Unhealthy Obsession With Healthy Eating Nearly Destroyed, And Eventually Saved, My Life: My Journey With Orthorexia
Sure, technically speaking its not an actual disorder, but orthorexia, defined as an unheatlhy obsession with healthy eating, is in fact a real and recognizable thing. The day I discovered I had this disorder was a monumental one in my own life. Truth be told, it wasn’t just “a problem,” it was actively destroying me.Continue reading “How An Unhealthy Obsession With Healthy Eating Nearly Destroyed, And Eventually Saved, My Life: My Journey With Orthorexia”
Understanding The Story of Our Lives: Having a Productive Conversation With Social Media By Way Of Kathryn Morton
We’ve internalized what the algorithm favours. (We’ve bought into the idea) “that we are the authors of our own lives… Redemptive narratives have power…. Baked into the story of individual triumph and redemption is the assumption that people can and will change when things aren’t working for them. The arc of success presumes that asContinue reading “Understanding The Story of Our Lives: Having a Productive Conversation With Social Media By Way Of Kathryn Morton”
Learning How To Age In a World That No Longer Makes Sense: What It Means To Similtaneously Grieve and Preserve That Which Is Lost
My wife (Jen) and I recently visited The Seine River Cafe for breakfast, a quiet, unassuming store front diner tucked in behind a Shell station and a Dairy Queen on Provencher, the central route winding its way through Winnipeg’s French district. It had been on my list of restaurants to visit for a while, beingContinue reading “Learning How To Age In a World That No Longer Makes Sense: What It Means To Similtaneously Grieve and Preserve That Which Is Lost”
When Cleaning the Basement Unearths The Remnants of a Potential Story Now Lost to Time
Every once in a while I unearth something from my childhood years that I forgot existed. I have no idea where this small remnant of a story was going, but it’s something I was starting to write back when, my best guess, I was around 10 or 12 years old. Figured I’d type it outContinue reading “When Cleaning the Basement Unearths The Remnants of a Potential Story Now Lost to Time”
This Homeward Ache: How Our Longings Reveal the Shape This World, and How Our Beliefs Shape Our Hope In It
“Even when there is no hope of possible satisfaction, (it) continues to be prized, and even to be preferred to anything else in the world, by those who have once felt it.”(page 57, This Homeward Ache)) The “it” in this equation is Sehnsucht. Sehnsucht, a German word that Lewis cites in his autobiography as aContinue reading “This Homeward Ache: How Our Longings Reveal the Shape This World, and How Our Beliefs Shape Our Hope In It”
To Arrive Back Where I Began: Finding the Power of Story on The Streets of Oxford and Making My Way Home
Only fitting that a train (among other) disruptions would go on to define the final part of my pilgrimage. It begins with my shuttle from Stonehenge back to Salisbury Station, where I would complete the final leg of my journey over to Oxford, being an hour late. This required changing my train ticket to aContinue reading “To Arrive Back Where I Began: Finding the Power of Story on The Streets of Oxford and Making My Way Home”
A Pilgrimage to Stonehenge: Where World’s Collide and the Sacred Survives
As the sun comes up on the final full day of my literary pilgrimage, I find myself climbing the hill to the heart of the ancient city of Exeter. Knowing this was the central hub for all trains travelling in any direction, be it west to Cornwall, South to the Salisbury Plains, East to London,Continue reading “A Pilgrimage to Stonehenge: Where World’s Collide and the Sacred Survives”
Meeting The Legacy of a Quiet, Strong, Complicated Mystery Writer and Revolutionary: Walking in the Footsteps of Agatha Christie
David Suchet, whom helped bring Agatha Christie’s iconic detective, Hercule Poirot, to life on the small screen from 1989 to 2013, wrote a recently released book called Travels With Agatha Christie, in which he, along with his wife Sheila, retrace the steps of her early promotional tour for the British Empire Exhibition of 1924 (whichContinue reading “Meeting The Legacy of a Quiet, Strong, Complicated Mystery Writer and Revolutionary: Walking in the Footsteps of Agatha Christie”
Arriving At King Arthur’s Court: Understanding The Meaning of a Pilgrimage at Tintagel
The evening sun is setting as I drag my now weathered luggage up the cobblestone streets of York back to York Station. I am heading, briefly, back to London, this time taking a different route on a train that is both running and on time. Here the landscape, still visible in the slow descent ofContinue reading “Arriving At King Arthur’s Court: Understanding The Meaning of a Pilgrimage at Tintagel”
The Stories of my Life 