Richard Rohr On Evil pt. 1

On 23 April 2021, Richard Rohr gave a keynote address on zoom at the Renaissance 2021 Spiritual Directors’ Conference. He titled his address “Why  is so much evil called ‘good’?”

IASP Has Lost A Good Friend

With saddness, we announce that Canon Michael Coleman died peacefully in his home early this morning, June 29, 2021.

Flawed Institutions

John Mock has an unenviable job these days.

Hurt People Hurt People

No it is not a typo, and it is not meaningless repetition. It is an answer to a difficult and challenging question: Why do we so often hurt one another?

Psalm 10 – Sunday 27 June

Re-thinking enemies:

Re-thinking Our Faith In The Shadow Of Unmarked Graves

Some days it feels hard to wear the label “Christian,” even harder to bear the awkward mantle of priest in the church.

Thomas Merton Quotes #21

Solitude #2

once God has called you to solitude, everything you touch leads you further into solitude.  TM, Sign

Apology Pt. 2

This business of offering a genuine apology is complex and often painful work. It requires an ability to see reality as it is and to let go of my need for things to be different than they are.

“Choose not to look… at your own peril”

I am sitting on the grass in the shade beside the cascading fountains of a children’s water park. All around me I hear the voices of happy excited children.

Apology Pt. 1

The discovery of the buried remains of 215 children on the grounds of the Kamloops Indian Residential School announced on 20 May 2021 and now 751 unmarked graves on the grounds of the Marieval Indian Residential School on the lands of the Cowessess First Nations, have unleashed an avalanche of calls for Canada to come to a genuine reckoning with our grievous history in relation to the indigenous people of this land.