As well as my expressive visual art practice I like drawing ‘from life’. During my art training it was a requirement to learn...
My golden years of nursing was spent at the Jubilee Hospital on 3-West, the Orthopaedic Unit. We were a team of nurses and allied...
So... When I was younger, way back when, I shared with a Spiritual Director that I was not happy with the direction I had been given by...
In my late teens, when I first encounter the picture of Jesus laughing, aka The Laughing Christ, it was a revelation to me. Up to...
Today I read a headline from The Guardian. ‘Nobody has ever been astonished by an apple’ – sorry Cézanne, but still lifes are dull...
“Oh, don’t worry. We’re gonna feed you supper.” These were the words uttered to me by a good friend this past Wednesday during a Lenten...
If the thing we call "religion" has any heft and depth to it, if it is not entirely rooted in fantasy, it must call attention to...
Often when I share a piece of music in a blog post it's the combination of lyric and music that has particularly moved me. There...
Do you want to change the world? Then change yourself first. Do you want to change yourself? Then remain completely silent inside the...
Have you ever felt that moment of anticipation just before the curtain rises on a play, or a concert, or the opera, or a sporting...
I'm a doggy person. It's not that I don't like cats, I do - and most other common furry and not furry companions that people share...
Not so long ago, I was driving home from St. John’s and decided to take the drive-thru at MacDonalds to get a burger and fries. As I...
On the weekend, I went walking to visit the daffodils by Dallas Road below the slope of Beacon Hill Park. The bright sunlight, breeze...
One of the most moving viral videos I have seen on the internet was a collection of fans singing the Cranberries song 'Zombie' after...
Today is the day set aside in the Turtle Island (North American) Anglican Churches' calendar for the Commemoration of John Keble,...
Approximately four years ago, in Vancouver, I was deep into my Clinical Pastoral Education Residency at Mount St. Joseph’s hospital....
Most months I attend, on the last Tuesday of the month, the Downtown Service Providers. This is a group comprised of agencies such as...
Palm Sunday is tomorrow, and Jesus’s words have been on my mind: ‘Unless a seed falls to the ground and dies it remains alone, but if...
Today, and in some of the days ahead, I want to link some of these Glimpses of God blogs with those things which stand out for me in...
Since I met Sabina, my partner, I have discovered dance. Not that I didn't know it wasn't there before, but I have learned how...
