February Update - Resend
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Come join me and your thoughtful neighbors February 2024 to talk about what the place of birth in our society. See time and locations below.
Central Lions Seniors Centre
11113 – 113 Street, Edmonton
Natality: Thinking about Birth-Giving
15 February, Thursday, 1:30 – 3:00
*Please call 780.496.7369 to register to attend.
Our philosophical traditions have given lots of attention to the theme of death. What if we turn this around at consider the place of birth-giving in all its forms in society and culture?
South East Edmonton Seniors Association
9350 – 82 Street NW, Edmonton
Natality: Thinking about Birth-Giving
22 February, Thursday, 1:00 – 2:30
*Please call 780.651.7049 to register to attend.
Our philosophical traditions have given lots of attention to the theme of death. What if we turn this around at consider the place of birth-giving in all its forms in society and culture?
Fox and Fable Book & Game Cafe
5017 – 50 Street, Camrose
Everyone is invited
Natality: Thinking about Birth-Giving
8 February, Thursday, 1:30 – 3:00
Our philosophical traditions have given lots of attention to the theme of death. What if we turn this around at consider the place of birth-giving in all its forms in society and culture?
Overcoming Black & White Thinking
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcRmxDNgbgg
A young friend of mine has his own YouTube broadcast called “The Deep Voice Show.” His voice is deep and “deep voice” is his nom de plume. His interests are wide ranging from gardening and growing mushrooms to aspects of mental and spiritual illness, from mythic images in popular culture to theological quandaries and the curious images and metaphors in scripture, from martial art to the spiritual preoccupations of his own generation: atheists, goths, and those who are religious refugees.
I appreciate the questions he raises and the themes he wishes to think about. His outreach to a part of our society often marginalized is laudable. We will be pulling forward many of these YouTube broadcasts over the next few months and invite you to explore any that may be of interest.
On the 5th of May, 2014, I gave the Convocation Address for the Vancouver School of Theology, held at Christ Church Cathedral, Vancouver. President Richard Topping asked me to give the address on the occasion of the graduation of an number of VST students and when a honorary degree [degree honoris causa] were bestowed on the distinguished Chief Robert Joseph and distinguished Professor Doug Hall. It afforded a lovely occasion to think about vocation, the common human vocation, that the graduating students of VST would now take up having "renewed their minds" through study and the spiritual formation they had engaged over the last few years. I drew on a surprising experience I was blessed with a few years before when I visited the Church of Saint Gregory Nazianzen in southern Cappadocia in Turkey.
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