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The above confession made by Colgan’s main character (Mirren) comes in the first pages of chapter 1 of her book The Secret Christmas Library, and my immediate reaction was that I felt seen. This describes the way I live my life (and the reality of how books occupy ever space of my home, my car,Continue reading “End of the Year Reflections: Reclaiming The Power of a Story”

The first movie I ever saw on the big screen was Lady and the Tramp. What added to the allure of this family affair, which reflected a spontaneous outing with my parents, my brother, my aunt, uncle and cousins to a since closed downtown Winnipeg movie theater, is the fact that we were expressly toldContinue reading “Netflix/Warner Bros and Hamnet: Grieving the Loss of a Life Long Love Affair With the Movies and Being Reminded of Why it Matters”

I have found myself coming back to this book many times over the years, but always by way of portions or summaries or external dialgoues about her ideas and her thesis. That it felt due time to finally sit down and read it front to back was an afterthought to the stars finally aligning. ThisContinue reading “The Myths We Live By: Some Thoughts on Mary Midgley’s Timeless Treaties.”

1 The beginning of the good news (Gospel) of Jesus Christ. (Mark 1:1) The beginning. The beginning of what? The beginning of the Gospel, or the good news. So what is the good news. The good news isn’t simply something Jesus says, it is something Jesus does. Something Jesus accomplishes. It is the good news ofContinue reading “The Beginning of the Good News: Learning What It Means to Both Anticipate and Participate in the Gospel of Jesus Christ”

I have three books that I am using to shape my journey through Advent this season The Grand Miracle: Daily Reflections For the Season of Advent (a collection of writings from different authors interacting with the likes of George Macdonald, Lewis, Tolkien, Sayers, Davidman) The anticipated Christ: A Journey Through Advent and Christmas (Brian Zahnd)Continue reading “Some Reflections on the First Sunday of Advent”

In his book A Philosophy of Belonging, scholar James Greenaway explores the idea of home. He notes two ways of looking at the idea of home: 1. Home as an enclosure against the world, or an enclosure in which we retreat from the world 2. Home as a threshhold into the world, or a placeContinue reading “Advent as a Philosophy of Belonging: Home as The Liminal Space Between Heaven and Earth”

“Science attacks values. Not directly, since science is no judge of them and must ignore them; but it subverts every one of the mythical ontogenies upon which the animist tradition, from the Australian aborigines to the dialectical materialists, has based morality: values, duties, rights prohibitions… True knowledge is ignorant of values, but it has toContinue reading “The Myths We Live By: Recovering the Definition of Knowledge and the Art of Reenchantment this Advent Season”

Paul Schrader’s latest film Oh Canada tells the story of a dying artist (a film Director) with a considerate legacy looking back on his life in an attempt to distguish which parts or versions of that legacy, if any, reflect the actual truth of who he is. Behind this film is Schrader’s own legacy, givingContinue reading “Oh Canada, Anemone, Sentimental Value: Exploring Themes of Legacy and Life”

I recently posted a rough draft of a personal project I have been working on for many years, which is simply an attempt to write my story. Why? For myself. So I can make sense of my story as it stands. Come to terms with it. A therapeutic exercise. In any case, I decided toContinue reading “Telling My Story: Beginning Chapters and the World We Are Born Into”

I’ve been spending so much time on my project as of late. The attempt to finally write “the story of my life,” which I’ve made a conserted effort to make some progress on in 2025. Sadly I’ve been neglecting this space because of that. Thus I figured I’d give myself a needed push and forceContinue reading “Making Sense of a Life: Forcing Myself to Finish a Longstanding Project.”