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Sunday, February 28, 2016

Laudato Si: Sunday Reflection #29... Ecology of daily life for 7.4 billion

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Call it coincidence (or not), but after last week's reflection on a grassroots cultural ecology, I kept running into news stories about ...
Saturday, February 27, 2016

A few gorgeous moments from Taizé

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Today we had a lovely Lenten Taizé retreat day, and I am still humming the music. To introduce the day to the almost 30 (!) participants, we...
Sunday, February 21, 2016

Laudato Si: Sunday Reflection #28... Grassroots cultural ecology

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A few weeks ago, my three daughters and I went to see Georges Bizet's opera, Carmen. Though it was set in pre-civil war 1930s Spain and ...
Wednesday, February 17, 2016

No stones in my soul

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This is just too beautiful for words. Kudos to L'Arche International for these wonderful shorts, which touch on the most importa...
Sunday, February 14, 2016

Laudato Si: Sunday Reflection #27... An integral way of thinking

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The last few weeks of these reflections have been a pretty tough slog, I'll admit. I laugh at myself because I hated writing essays as a...
Thursday, February 11, 2016

Hope for the present

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On Tuesday evening, we attended a small celebration of the Alberta Council for Global Cooperation's Top 30 Under 30, which launched the ...
Wednesday, February 10, 2016

It is well with my soul

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As I've mentioned before, I have the privilege of accompanying three of the able-bodied young adults who are assistants to our L'Ar...
Sunday, February 7, 2016

Laudato Si: Sunday Reflection #26... How to cure a technological headache

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To be totally honest, this last section of the third chapter of the Pope's letter to the world gives me a bit of a headache. Or maybe...
Thursday, February 4, 2016

Simple Suggestion #246... Let little things be little things

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Im having a difficult time as a writer lately. Wouldnt you know it, I accidentally knocked my keyboard off my desk last week and now I hav...
Wednesday, February 3, 2016

Early spring time in January

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Back in December, I was feeling pretty crummy. By that I mean that I was miserable, snappish, cranky, and probably kind of hard to live with...
Saturday, January 30, 2016

Laudato Si: Sunday Reflection #25... Toward a work/life balance

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Work-life balance is something a lot of people are thinking and talking about these days, but today I'm using the term in a different se...
Tuesday, January 26, 2016

No Lions in Paris

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People with disabilities bring me closer to God because, once they know me, they have a gift of loving me unconditionally, and I can't h...
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Sunday, January 24, 2016

Laudato Si Sunday Reflection #24... Practical relativism as a "dog's breakfast"

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Consider yourself warned -- in this week's paragraphs of Laudato Si: On Care for Our Common Home , Pope Francis and his encyclical writi...
Friday, January 22, 2016

On asking for prayers

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For the past year, my dad has been living with cancer, and this week, decisions were finally made regarding what to do about it. On Wednes...