Apr 8, 2019 | Uncategorized
“With Great Power”: the Existentialist Spider-Man in Into the Spider-Verse Writers Phil Lord and Christopher Miller’s newest release, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is an action-packed, deliciously aesthetic addition to the Marvel film canon. More than just a...
Mar 30, 2019 | Uncategorized
Everything has changed since my last blog. I have started writing this at least sixteen times as new thoughts, experiences and reflections arise. This won’t be the most coherent thing I’ve ever written but there is no blueprint for a blog post prompted by an atrocity....
Mar 30, 2019 | Uncategorized
I have reached my final resting place. I’m not sure I can take the grace. I’ve seen golden boats and shooting stars. I’ve burned myself with others’ scars. I want the world’s sorrow on my heart. Are these flames enough for rebirth to start? I’ve drank my full of empty...
Mar 12, 2019 | Uncategorized
As a chaplain who lives and works in Thunder Bay, I’ve had the privilege to provide spiritual care and grief counselling to Indigenous youth from Northern Ontario reserves suffering the intergenerational trauma of residential schools, including years of witnessing and...
Mar 12, 2019 | Uncategorized
Job and Helping Others By Bob Branch NOTE: This entry is more journal-musing than well-argued article, so enter at your own risk! After reading Sandra Richter’s Epic of Eden, I felt compelled to go back to the Old Testament for my morning Lectio...
Mar 5, 2019 | Uncategorized
#40 I am twisted words A life of falling Falling to be faster Bowing to be higher Weeping to be happy Repentance An expectation of the divine Humanity's gift When I twist words, they become me When others twist words, they bend me to believe To...
