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...
Oct 17, 2017 | Uncategorized
There is an idea currently extremely popular among the spiritual elite of my generation—an idea which is neither spiritual nor elite, but rather unspiritual and elitist. It is the carnal passion for mere dread of a “God” whose lust for physical suffering evokes this...
Oct 13, 2017 | Uncategorized
Dr. Erica Grimm This has been a season of weather watching. Wildfires swirled out of control in our interior, in the peat fields of Greenland and throughout Europe. Whirlwinds Franklin, Harvey, Irma and Maria wreaked category 5 fury, meanwhile 1/3 of...
Oct 12, 2017 | Uncategorized
A meditation on anger I've been meaning to write this one for a long time now, but, well, life happens. A few months back I was on a retreat. It was a great time. Lots of new people, lots of drinking. Not so much new info, but free room, board, and drinks. There...
