Encountering the Incarnation: God With Us Then, Here and Now

In a previous post I found myself in a place of pondering and wondering; asking myself not what it is that I believe but why I believe when it comes to God, humanity, creation and life. I reflected on how the older I get the less interesting the what becomes and the more crucial theContinue reading “Encountering the Incarnation: God With Us Then, Here and Now”

Why I Believe: Finding Presence, Hope and Mystery in Advent

A culmination of reading, viewing, listening, online and in person dialogue, and self reflection has had me thinking these past couple weeks about my faith in God. Not so much how it is I know God exists; the older I get the less interesting that question becomes on both sides of the apologetic fence, andContinue reading “Why I Believe: Finding Presence, Hope and Mystery in Advent”

Facebook, Meta, Change and Resistance

Reading all of these articles as of late about how the new augmented reality of Meta, Facebooks rebranding and refocusing, is going to destroy our world has left me with in a weird point of crisis. Perhaps a crisis of meaning. I’ve spent the last number of years using online spaces to speak about andContinue reading “Facebook, Meta, Change and Resistance”

Words, Labels and Identity- Feeling Lost in the Unsafe Spaces of our World

I find myself pondering this morning; As a socialist leaning individual, by which I mean where tension exists between the rights of the individual and concern for the collective I uphold the necessary value of setting my rights as secondary to the good of the whole, it is difficult to find space where I canContinue reading “Words, Labels and Identity- Feeling Lost in the Unsafe Spaces of our World”

Month in Review: Memorable Reads, Listens, and Watches for November, 2021

Movies Spencer (2021, Pablo Larrain) Spencer boasts a perfectly off kilter and eccentric personality befitting both its leading star and its subject matter. From the brilliant and immersive opening sequence, which sees Diana as someone lost in a world intent on containing her larger than life persona, we are introduced to this potential future QueenContinue reading “Month in Review: Memorable Reads, Listens, and Watches for November, 2021”

Nine Days: Making a Case for Life in the Tension Filled Spaces of the Living

Wow. The 2021 film Nine Days, by first time Director Edson Oda, came out of nowhere. Caught me off guard as I knew next to nothing about it except that it was recommended viewing. And for good reason. It’s a high concept film filled with existential concerns about life and suffering. Following a lone arbitorContinue reading “Nine Days: Making a Case for Life in the Tension Filled Spaces of the Living”

Month in Review: Memorable Reads, Listens, and Watches for October, 2021

Blind Spots From The Vault Deceptively simple as the sum of its working parts, Waiting For the Prosecution (1957) is arguably one of the best courtroom dramas of all time. Director Billy Wilder infuses it with a mix of humor, emotion, realism, drama, and character development in order to tell the sory of an agingContinue reading “Month in Review: Memorable Reads, Listens, and Watches for October, 2021”