Simone Weil saw attention as being fully present with a mystery and yet resisting the urge to solve it.

There are times when I find it difficult to pray. I come to terms with that (and then inevitably fall out-of-terms again) most meaningfully when

I am not a rock climber.  In my childhood out in the fields and forests of northwestern Ontario, I was a capable and confident tree

If you’ve read the little snippet of a bio that sits at the bottom of my blogs, you’ll already know that trees are important to

Winning is wonderful. When we work hard, do our very best at a competitive thing, the thing goes really well, and we are the winners,

A few days ago I was driving home from an errand, and I was listening to a program on CBC Radio called Q. The host,

As an adolescent in the early ‘90s, the then-popular phrase “on fire for God” totally applied to me. I was a good, godly kid. I

When I was in between my final two years of university, a lovely Korean student named Sunyoung sublet one of the rooms in our creaky

Every now and then, we get to be a part of bright, mysterious moments where unexpected life-threads twist together. I recently had an afternoon that