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One of the impulses of all art is to give a name to the cosmos we see despite all the chaos (A Light So Lovely: The Spiritual Legacy of Madeleine L’Engle, Sarah Arthur) I came across a descriptive the other day of what it looks like to navigate the 40’s (not the decade, but theContinue reading “A Light So Lovely: How The Story of Madeleine L’Engle is Helping Me Navigate A Year of Transition”

There seems to be a common theme emerging for me this summer through conversations with people and with the things I am reading. Certainly some of it connects to the present state of politcs between Canada and America. The concerted movement to “reinvest” in Canada feels reminiscent of the Covid years where the shutdown wasContinue reading “The Power of A Place and Learning What it Means to Know Ourselves”

I was listening to an episode of the podcast It Means What it Means, titled “Scripting the Son with Kyle Hughes,” episode 86. Here Hughes discusses what is called “prosopological exegesis,” which reflects an interpretive approach which seeks to bring together appropriate criticisms and the role of Tradition. Put simply, “prosopon” means faces or persons,Continue reading “Prosopological Exegisis: Rediscovering the Patterns of the Christian Life”

Why Oklahoma? Why Mackinack Island? Why Birmingham? Why Duluth? Why Sault Ste Marie? These questions reflect the shared response to my choice of destinations over the last three summers. While each destination has its own unique reasons and context concerning why I travelled to these particular places, each invokes that same seemingly essential degree ofContinue reading “Why Sault Ste Marie: Thoughts on Travel Destinations and This Small Slice of Canada”

I was listening to the latest sermon from Bridgetown Church on my morning walk, titled Genesis: Cain and Abel. They have been going step by step, or more accurately section by section, through the Genesis text emphasising the narrative that it is both establishing and evoking. In this particular section the teacher/preacher tasked with bringingContinue reading “From Adam to Lamech: How The Bible’s Geneaologies Reveal the Redemptive Work of God”

“When someone dies or disappears, we can tell stories about only what might have been the case or what might have happened next. And perhaps it is simply a question of control, but it is easier to imagine the very worst than to allow a space in which several things might be true at once.”Continue reading “Shaping the Lives of Others: Finding Matters of Perspective in the Stories of Our Homemade Gods”

I was listening to an interview with author and scholar Donna Freitas this morning, where she was speaking about her upbringing and her faith journey. Having grown up Catholic, and having long since found herself wrestling with the tensions present between between the problems she could percieve and experience within the institutional church and the intuitionsContinue reading “Staring Into the Abyss: Why Do Some Have a Direct Connection to God And I Don’t and Other Questions That Sustain My Faith”

I came across this thought in a recent sermon from Darrell Johnson titled Jesus the Healer: He Gives Us a New Past. It’s a well documented observation concerning the literary design of John’s Gospel, in this case narrowing in on the explicit use of the term “anthrakia” (the Greek word for “charcoal fire.”). As JohnsonContinue reading “The Charcoal Fire: What it means to Believe, What it means to Love”

One of the reasons I love to spend time in the scriptures is their ability to continually suprise me. Given that my own vantage point is always changing with time and context, the ability to speak in new ways. Or perhaps for me to hear in new ways. One of the reasons I love toContinue reading “A Fresh Perspective on The Beloved Disciple: Who it is and Why it Matters to a Life of Faith”

On the most recent episode of The Good Fight podcast, host Yascha Mounk interviews author Dean Spears on the subject of population. Or more specifically, the subject of his new book (After the Spike: Population, Progress, and the Case for People), the problem of depopulation. A few times throughout the interview the word “math” wasContinue reading “Depopulation, Overpopulation, and the Search For True Values”