I had another brush with fear yesterday when I read the Climate Primer released by the Melbourne Climate Action Centre called 4 Degrees Hotter. Ironically I had just finished teaching at Royal Roads University, the inaugural Sustainable Community Development Graduate Certificate, with a Challenge focused on a Climate Action Plan for a BC City. I had completed the literature [...]
In tonight's Winter Olympics Closing Ceremonies, we saw, heard, smelled, tasted, felt the dream of the north shift. From our traditional Canadian stance of modesty and self-deprecation, we shifted into claiming the gold of self-identity - an identity that transcends and includes the nations of the world. The presence of 2600 athletes from around the [...]
Every New Year needs an inspiring sermon to put life into perspective. At this start to the new decade and with a need for something more than bland resolutions, to repair that which has not worked from the last decade, I like the message in recent sermon by Bruce Sanguin, Founder of the Evolutionary Christian Centre, at [...]
Listening to Ken Wilber and Andrew Cohen on their webcasted dialogue last week prompted ponderings on the three faces of God in the city. The Third Face of God -- represented as the face of the third person -- the God we see in the other as we walk the streets of the city. This is [...]
Bruce Sanguin, pastor of Canadian Memorial Church & Centre for Peace in Vancouver, BC. author of "Darwin,Divinity and the Dance of the Cosmos" is inviting leaders in the city church to don new lenses. In The Emerging Church: A Model for Change & a Map of Renewal Sanguin has created a practical guide for congregations [...]