Unearthed Graves and Thrown-Down Stones: The Church, Pedicide, and Recompense. From the slaughter of the innocents to the destruction of the temple follows the same trajectory as the pedicide of Residential Schools and the burning of churches. Religion wedded to empire is always a story of violence.
Coming Home to Unacknowledged Grief Just over a year ago, Marcia, Amanda and I presented “A Sort of Homecoming” to Brian Walsh for the first time.
Genocide, Domicide and the Unnamed We know the names of the victims in London. We can know the names of the victims in Gaza. But we do not know the names of the 215.
Tackling the Housing Crisis (Pt 6) What are some success stories of the Church taking action on housing and homelessness?
Tackling the Housing Crisis (Pt 5) How does the Church bring theologically grounded principles into conversation in a pluralistic society?
Tackling the Housing Crisis (Pt 4) Does a theology of housing require an eschatology of new creation?
Tackling the Housing Crisis (Pt 3) How do the five housing principles - sustainable, safe, stable, social, satisfying - map onto the biblical story?
Tackling the Housing Crisis Together (Pt 2) The theology and biblical vision of housing: why, what, and so what?
Tackling the Housing Crisis Together (Pt 1) Preparatory to our symposium "Beyond Housing to Homefulness," Brian Walsh and Michael Shapcott talk housing and homelessness with Bishop Graham Tomlin in seven segments.
For the Birds, A Poem for Henk Hart It takes patience to enter into joy. The longer you wait, the more rooted you remain, the intensity of your gaze, only deepens the joy.
Remembering La Loche, Adam Wood, five years later Hope can be heard whispering through our sorrow, choked out as we groan in travail with all of creation.
Exaggeration Incarnate: Advent Joy Advent joy is the joy of the future reaching back to touch the present.
Advent gloom, Advent hope Wherever Jesus went there would be no gloom for those in anguish because the light of the kingdom gave them hope.