Brian J. Walsh's Blog, page 8

A Prayer, A Dream, A Sacred Space

This has been a place of profound meeting.

A moment of knowing and being known.

A place of memory making, storytelling,

rooted in the deepest and widest story of all.

A sacred space.

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The Trouble with the Third Slave

A reflection on Matthew 25:14-31 for St. Andrew’s Anglican Church in Trail, BC.

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Cohen, Democracy and Trump

Greed and hate will always still-birth democracy.

Greed and hate will always sabotage justice,

and leave us shipwrecked.

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Love’s Percussive Proclamation

I saw the Lord spitting on the altar, spray can in hand, scrawling verse after verse of invective poetry at a people, a nation, of ill-begotten gains...

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The Lent of Our Lives

I joked at the beginning of the pandemic, which was during the season of Lent, that this time was “the Lent of our lives.” A time to lament, to sit with death. We sense that new life will come, but not how or what it will look like. I didn’t know then how true it would be. 

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One Day I Walk: Pilgrimage and Finding our Way Home

The way home is by walking, attentive to sight, sound and smell, loving the path.

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The Geography of Faith

There is, I suggest, a geography of faith.

Christian faith is neither generic nor homogenous.

Faith is always particular to place and time.

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Anger, Tears and Resurrection

Anger, tears and resurrection.

That’s what it is all about.

Anything less is a cover up,

and cheapens death in its sentimentality.

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On our Way … to New Beginnings

For most of us, Wine Before Breakfast was a coming home.

But this was always “a sort of homecoming,”

a homecoming on the way,

never a settled and comfortable spirituality.

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Pacing the Cage and Good Endings

Rather than denying the darkness,

or averting our gaze from the dark,

we have embraced sorrow through lament,

while we adjust our vision to see in the dark.

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