Category Archives: Uncategorized

Although this is something I was aware of, a recent chapter from the book The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War by Louis Menand really brought to light how the West arrived where it did in terms of understanding the relationship between youth and the elderly. The move to create and defineContinue reading “Our Obsession With Youth and Youth Culture and the Challenge of Aging in the West”

My personal highlights for the month of May… Books Born To Battle by D.A. Stewart The author D.A. Stewart actually noticed my love and affection for my favorite author Lawhead and sent me an early copy of this book to read and review. I was honored to do so of course, but my honest thoughtsContinue reading “Month in Review: Memorable Reads, Watches and Listens For May 2021”

I had someone send me this article recently- How We Forgot Foucault by Geoff Shullenberger for American Affair Journay, linked here: https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2021/05/how-we-forgot-foucault/– And I can’t stop thinking about it. Not only does it fit will with my previous post on Covid, published in this space, it has some major overlap with a book I’m readingContinue reading “The Free World, Foucault, and the Problem of Power in the Absence of a Grand Narrative”

“The only joy in the world is to begin.” Cesare Pavese Some news this week. I finally got vaccinated (for Covid 19). While this certainly doesn’t feel revolutionary- I’m far from the only one getting vaccinated, and as the vaccine rollout continues to ramp up in my hometown of Winnipeg, Manitoba it should become moreContinue reading “Pondering Covid, Vaccines, and the Complicated Nature of Human Life”

For if you forgive other people when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive others their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins. Matthew 6:14-15 Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you. Ephesians 4:3 AContinue reading “The Problem of Guilt: Making Sense of the Modern World Without A Narrative of Forgiveness”

In James Suzman’s book Work: A Deep History from the Stone Age to the Age of Robots, he spends a good amount of time attempting to locate the question, why is it that modern humans hold the relationship to work that we do? As the book develops, he fleshes out what this relationship is, whatContinue reading “God, Work, Creation: Motherhood and the Central Human Vocation”

Films Nomadland (2020) After seeing and being taken with Chloe Zhoa’s The Rider, one of my all time favorite films, I became enamored with whatever it was that she was going to make next. When Nomadland was announced I eagerly awaited it’s arrival. Which took a long, long time to finally become available. Having readContinue reading “Month in Review: Memorable Reads, Watches and Listens For April 2021”

My recent reading through the book Work: A Deep History, from the Stone Age To the Age of Robots by James Suzman, has really been shaking up my understanding of what work is. I’m sure that this would not be Suzman’s intent, but it has also reawakened and reinvigorated my faith in God, particularly inContinue reading “A History of Work and The Celebration of Earth Day: Making Sense of The God-Creation-Human Relationship”

Approching the turn of the calendar year in 2020, I, like most people I think, found myself doing quite a bit of reflecting. Exhaustion with the pandemic and the never ending lockdowns has long since set in and taken its toll. While turning the page to 2021 didn’t actually promise much in the way ofContinue reading “The Memory Making Process: Reconnecting With the Most Essential Human Story”

“When it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, and the doors of the house where the disciples had met were locked for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you.” After he said this, he showed them his hands and his side. ThenContinue reading “Eastertide: The Beginning of a New Creation Story”