Art: Liberation & Propaganda?
The Tribute Money: Titian In May of this year, I had the honour to be a panellist for the opening and closing sessions of the first Contemplative Arts Festival in Saskatoon. Organisers
Appreciative Principles|Positive
This ten-part A Deacon’s Musing series will explore the intersection between the change philosophy known as Appreciative Inquiry and a Christian theological orientation grounded in diversity. I am most grateful to be co-shaping this conversation
Appreciative Principles|Anticipatory
This ten-part A Deacon’s Musing series will explore the intersection between the change philosophy known as Appreciative Inquiry and a Christian theological orientation grounded in diversity. I am most grateful to be co-shaping this conversation
Expansive Christianity
Expansivity Politics and faith are intimately connected. We may like to imagine a story in which that is not the case. In my Canadian context, we display a certain pretension that we have well
Appreciative Principles|Simultaneity
This ten-part A Deacon’s Musing series will explore the intersection between the change philosophy known as Appreciative Inquiry and a Christian theological orientation grounded in diversity. I am most grateful to be co-shaping this conversation
Lent|Vignette (A Garden)
Without a community, it is nearly impossible to achieve voice: it takes a village to raise a Rosa Parks. Without a community, it is nearly impossible to exercise the “power of one” in a
Rainbow Weeps
I wish I did not feel Called to blog this week … I pray that the narrative of hate did not exist … I find my soul torn asunder knowing that
Words
Words in Progress Words … aren’t just words. No matter what the intention – or lack thereof – words have, do and will hold power. They shape our stories, define this and
Politically Correct
Only the chaste may enterImage: Simon Harrod In my pastoral experience of walking with others – through the traumas and hurts that do occur on life’s journey – words stereotype, pigeon-hole, typecast,
Camelot
CamelotImage: Gustave Doré As I reflect on my own story, I realise that my growing up in Ottawa (during the 70s and 80s) was part of a larger story that I have