Semá:th X̱ó:tsa: Sts’ólemeqwelh Sx̱ó:tsa (Great Gramma’s Lake) – The Reach Gallery Museum
“Semá:th X̱ó:tsa: Sts'ólemeqwelh Sx̱ó:tsa (Great Gramma's Lake)" is a children’s book published by The Reach Gallery Museum, in collaboration with Stó:lō partners, that tells the story of the draining of Sumas Lake from an Indigenous perspective.
Thomas Merton and Thomas More: Men for all Seasons by Ron Dart
The publication of Robert Bolt’s play, A Man for all Seasons (1960), did much to further an interest in the admirable life of Thomas More. The movie, A Man for all Seasons, won the Best Picture as an Academy Award Winner in 1966. Thomas More, in the play and movie, is...
Transformative Justice Vision and Spirituality (part 2) by Wayne Northey
More Church History: The Atonement and Western Penal Law (10) One more historical note needs to be added: how the Constantinian shift in Christian spirituality, from an initial profound disavowal of state-sanctioned scapegoating violence, to an embrace of the very...
Transformative Justice Vision and Spirituality (part 1) by Wayne Northey
NOTE: Much of this material first appeared in “The Spiritual Roots of Restorative Justice,” by Pierre Allard and Wayne Northey in “Christianity: The Rediscovery of Restorative Justice” (Michael Hadley, editor. New York: SUNY Press, 2001) Introduction An exchange in a...
Our Restless Hearts: Spirituality and Religion by Ron Dart
“Superficiality is the curse of our age. The doctrine of instant satisfaction is a primary spiritual problem. The desperate need today is not for a greater number of intelligent people, or gifted people, but for deep people.”—Richard Foster The obstinate fact that so...
The Spirituality of Justice by Father Frank Cancro
A Spirituality of Justice is focused in these important elements of faith. First, in the scriptural covenants; second, in the virtues and the sacraments; and third, in the life of the church. Let me speak about all three. There are three important covenants that are...
Theology in Motion by Joram
I've found you again and I know I'll let go. This search without end during this time here; until the next. Ages come and go in heartbeats, seconds, life times, and moments. Through it all, all connecting, are you. And we, I, strive to walk the path we see; we know....
When is Morality Heresy? by Archbishop Puhalo
Is morality a heresy? Morality is a heresy when it becomes a substitute for our life in Christ. Morality becomes a substitute for our life in Christ when we reduce religion to a moral code, when we reduce the faith to a system of correct behaviour instead of a...
The Neo-Gnostic Temptation by Ron Dart
“The time will shortly be upon us, if it is not already here, when the pursuit of contemplation becomes a strictly subversive activity.” —Daniel Berrigan, America Is Hard to Find (1972) p.77. "I cannot praise a cloistered virtue that never sallies forth.”—John...
In the Presence of Mine Enemies by Eden Jersak
I find myself in the jaws of distress and danger once again. I have left the spacious place with all its benefits and blessings, and have traded it for the precarious jaws of distress. But I hear God calling, wooing me from that dangerous place to the table that is in...
The Neo-Gnostic Tradition: Three Acts in an Unfolding Drama by Ron Dart
This article is an excerpt from Ron Dart's book The Beatitudes: When Peak Meets Valley (Fresh Wind Press, 2005). Interest in Gnosticism has been growing clear and steady since World War II. A variety of reasons may be given for this, but the reality cannot be ignored....