Nov 17, 2017 | Uncategorized
Fr. Alexander Schmemann wrote, “Properly understood, Mariology is . . . the ‘locus theologicus’ par excellence of Christian anthropology.”[1] In a different article, Schmemann made the following profound statement regarding the place of Mary in understanding...
Nov 7, 2017 | Uncategorized
"Deep is the abyss that spanned by Durin’s Bridge, none has measured it," said Gimli. "Yet it has a bottom, beyond light and knowledge," said Gandalf. "Thither I came at last, to the uttermost foundations of stone. He was with me still. His...
Nov 2, 2017 | Uncategorized
Swimming in Mercy [W]hen we think of mercy, we should be thinking first and foremost of a bond, an infallible link of love that holds the created and uncreated realms together. The mercy of God does not come and go, granted to some and refused to others. Why?...
Oct 31, 2017 | Uncategorized
Lecture presented at the “Sacramental Approach to Ecology Conference,” Trinity Western University, Oct. 7, 2017. Gerard Manley Hopkins’s vision and poetics give us a strong basis for a robust sacramental ecology. However, Sally McFague, an American Christian feminist...
Oct 31, 2017 | Uncategorized
"More popular than Jesus." John Lennon, 1966 I grew up the baby of six, in a house predominantly filled with women. Wonderful women. Women full of life and laughter. Women who enriched my sense of what it meant to be a boy, and...
Oct 18, 2017 | Uncategorized
Mt. Thom, Chilliwack, BC, July 2017 Seeking Reconciliation One Moment at a Time David R. Clements Chair, Department of Geography and Environment Professor of Biology Trinity Western University 15 The Son is the image of the invisible God, the...