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Grounding: My Operational Realities – Ken Hood
Ken Hood OPERATIONAL REALITIES We all live by, and within, our own realities. Most of the time, we all share these realities. We all act as if the chair we sit in is real, and will hold us. We believe, and in this case, it’s “true” based on empirical...
“I can only get to Alyosha via Ivan”: Confessions of a Grumpy Universalist – Adrian Lovegrove w/ Bradley Jersak
The following was a conversation via email between Adrian Lovegrove and Bradley Jersak over the final weeks of 2022. ADRIAN LOVEGROVE I began formal theological study back in 2011. I could no longer buy the evangelical package deal, but I hoped there...
Christmas Begins in the Quiet – C.E.W. Green
Ecce Homo by CEW Green Christmas Begins in the QuietLk. 2:1-14 * Thursday, Christmas Eve eve, as Julie and the kids and I drove down to my parents’ house, I found myself thinking about the Holy Family. (I have been doing a lot of that over the last few months and...
C.S. Lewis, Atonement & Universal Salvation – Bradley Jersak
UNIVERSAL SALVATION While I am convinced of the NT promise of ultimate redemption, I continue to be reluctant to identify myself personally with the label 'universalism.' That is mainly because its opponents typically assume they know what that word means, and...
Christmas Is What God Does – Fr. Kenneth Tanner
Icon by by Ivanka Demchuk UBP The story of the world—the story we just heard read in the church as our gospel for Christmas, the world’s true story from which all true stories are told—happened in a world exactly like our world.It was as is ours a world of...
We Should Be Unimpressed – Christmas Eve Sermon by Allen Doerksen
Isaiah 9:2-7; Luke 2:1-20 Recounting his visit to Bethlehem Fr. Allen unpacks what he saw that day in light of Isaiah's majestic prophecy and the familiar scene painted by Luke. Audio version HERE ISAIAH 9:2-7 The people who walked in...
Ernest Hemmingway: Ski Nomad – Ron Dart
There were no ski lifts from Schruns and no funiculars. You climbed on foot carrying your skis and higher up, where the snow was too deep, you climbed on seal skins that you attached to the bottoms of the skis . At the tops of the mountain valleys there were the big...
Mountain Mentors – Poem by Ron Dart
Mountain Mentors Delores LaChapelle (d. January 22 2007) Edward LaChapelle (d. February 1 2007) I was young...
Alan Dennis’ “Snow Nomad: An Avalanche Memoir” – Review by Ron Dart
Alan Dennis, Snow Nomad: An Avalanche Memoir Friesen Press, 2022 Review by Ron Dart I have had an ongoing interest, the last few decades, in the life and philosophic vision of Dolores LaChapelle. LaChapelle’s early pioneering work with Arne Naess in deep...
Mary and John: Troubled Families – Ron Dart
House of the Virgin Mary When Jesus saw his mother there, and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to his mother, “Dear woman, here is your son,” and to the disciple, “Here is your mother.” From that time on, this disciple took her into his home (John...