The Threshold of New Life
"Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven." — Matthew 6:9-10 Every day, as I reflectively…
The Spaces Between
I find myself living between spaces these couple of months, fully aware of the work that calls for my attention, yet gently allowing life’s unexpected interruptions to take their rightful…
Why I Love to Camp
I say I camp because it was imprinted on my consciousness when I was two years old. That’s when my parents bundled me into the back seat of their Austin…
A Journey Into Interconnectedness
It has been a long journey for me to gradually understand how crucial the ecosystem is to human beings, and what the term interconnectedness truly means in relation to all of humanity.…
Universe as a Communion of Subjects
About 25 years ago, I became familiar with Thomas Berry’s statement that "The universe is a communion of subjects, not a collection of objects."1 I have repeated that line like…
Aerial view of Sioux Lookout, Ontario, Canada
A Communion of Subjects
"Have you ever stood in a forest and felt that you weren't simply looking at nature—you were somehow with the forest?" This question was put to me recently, and my…
Mary at Cana: A Sign of Hope
“Would it be outlandish to say that the mother of Jesus, in effect, gave birth to the first sign of who he was as divine? Birthed his public ministry? Accompanied…
First Lady Michelle Obama participates in an interview with Stephen Colbert during a taping of “The Colbert Report,” with military families of troops deployed to Afghanistan as part of the audience, at the Colbert Report Studio in New York, N.Y., April 11, 2012. (Official White House Photo by Lawrence Jackson)
Hello, Hello: Stephen Colbert and a Culture of Encounter
I have been an episodic viewer of “The Late Show” with Stephen Colbert. After all, it *is* LATE. However, when his program was cancelled by CBS, I began recording his…
A Strange Passion
A few months ago, I was at my favourite bookstore hoping to spend a gift card. On a shelf the cover of a book with the title The Soul of…
The Onslaught of AI in Theology
I am serving as dean of the Institute of Formation and Religious Studies, a theological institute in the Philippines. Just recently, one of the professors has been complaining about the…
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