Dec 8, 2014 | Uncategorized
For all its diversity and divisions, the Christian faith still holds forth a common agreed narrative: it is the problem of sin met with God's promise of salvation. However, disagreement begins with the effort to quantify these...
Dec 6, 2014 | Uncategorized
I am often questioned about my stance on peace, as though it is some radical new thought that we should aim for peace in every circumstance. The questions usually come in the form of a barrage, and the barrage heads in one of two directions. The first is the...
Dec 5, 2014 | Uncategorized
A large, ominous, mysterious, billboard along Highway #1 approaching Vancouver from the East boldly proclaims: “Every unjust sentence bullies the victim.” One wonders what they, whoever “they” are, consider a just sentence, one that bullies back the one...
Dec 1, 2014 | Uncategorized
On 27 November 2014 I gave a talk titled “St Isaac the Syrian, Apokatastasis, and the Renewal of Orthodox Preaching” at the first Theotokos Institute Conference in Cardiff, Wales. An expanded, footnoted version of the talk will be published in the journal Logos:...
Dec 1, 2014 | Uncategorized
I have been reading the work of Rene Girard now for a quarter century and have been applying the insights of the mimetic theory to the Bible and Christian theology for all that time. Girard is not a theologian but he has provided us with an anthropology, a way of...
Nov 29, 2014 | Uncategorized
People of all ages and backgrounds continue to get arrested while protesting the work on the Kinder Morgan pipeline on Burnaby Mountain. The whole event raises serious questions for Christians. The protestors are clearly operating out of deep conviction, but breaking...
