Jan 8, 2019 | Uncategorized
I am sharing a reflection on the many ways we experience separation and division in our lives and the reconciling hope that I have experienced through my personal soul work, belonging in community, what I offer to those I love and serve as a spiritual companion, and...
Jan 3, 2019 | Uncategorized
Clarion welcomes Jessica Cotten as a new author to our site. 2018 was, for me, the year of learning to make peace with the unexpected. Certain things didn't turn out like I had thought they would. At all. I should know by now that life isn't always...
Dec 13, 2018 | Uncategorized
Memorial to Sir Wilfred Laurier, Premier of the Dominion of Canada from the Chiefs of the Shuswap, Okanagan and Couteau Tribes of British Columbia presented at Kamloops, BC, August 25, 1910 Dear Sir and Father, We take this opportunity of your visiting...
Dec 12, 2018 | Uncategorized
This morning I was listening to an excellent interview with Dr. Brad Jersak on The Bible for Normal People Podcast. Towards the end of the interview, Dr. Peter Enns asked Brad how Orthodox Christians relate to the tools of Modern Historical Criticism. In short,...
Dec 10, 2018 | Uncategorized
I am in a constant need of saving. There is often a longing in me to step outside of the “things I know,” as in the way the Bible explains God and man, etc., and look at the plainer truth of what I see. When I study cultures, religions, and the histories of man I see...
Nov 30, 2018 | Uncategorized
Peace and Joy; Fear and Anger Peace and joy are the default emotional statuses of the flourishing human being, where we are intended to live in communion with God and other people. But there are other God-given emotional states that alert us to danger and...