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Clarion Journal (ISSN 2369-0070) is a serial publication of Fresh Wind Press, Abbotsford, BC Canada (est. 2003). Clarion explores the connection between spirituality and justice.
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Review of Sister Wendy Beckett and Robert Ellsberg, Dearest Sister Wendy: A Surprising Story of Faith and Friendship (Orbis Books, 2022). Review by Ron Dart. I have, sitting on my desk before me, Sister Wendy Beckett’s classic visual and textual... Continue reading
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"In a city astir with dangerous new ideas, the son of a Catholic priest becomes a leader of a nonviolent revolution." –back cover Five hundred years ago, Europe was set ablaze by the violence and wars of the Catholic-Protestant schism,... Continue reading
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We are in a transitional stage in which much of the popular certainty of the postwar era is slowly fading. In such an era, and when politics is no longer an elitist enterprise but a more populist one, the politician... Continue reading
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I’ve been in the Holy Land the last two weeks, in Israel and in Palestine, co-leading a women’s pilgrimage with my friend Mercy Aiken. On Monday we walked the Via Dolorosa in Jerusalem, retracing the steps of Jesus as he... Continue reading
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Mark Braverman (born 1948) is an American psychologist and Jewish activist for Palestinean rights. He is the executive director of Kairos USA. The following is a transcript of Dr. Braverman's contributions to The Jim Forest Institute's online conference, "The Experience... Continue reading
IRPJ.org Presents: "The Experience & Practice of Mutual Respect Across Faiths" The Institute for Religion, Peace & Justice (IRPJ.org) hosted a conversation on the topic of "The Experience & Practice of Mutual Respect Across Faiths." The Hosts, Bradley Jersak and... Continue reading
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The Ascent to Pascha We cannot sink so deeply into the darkness that the light of grace cannot reach us. THE SUNDAY OF SAINT MARY OF EGYPT How deep into the darkness must we fall before the light can no... Continue reading
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Photo by Luke Knight R.S. Thomas and the Question of God’s Migratory Patterns The early reports on February 6 were of a massive earthquake with substantial casualties expected. Within a few days, the death toll had climbed to the thousands... Continue reading
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VISIONARY EXPERIENCES & RELIGIOUS TRAUMA After several people shared their visionary experiences with me recently, I read a post along the same lines on social media the other day that almost made me reply with charges of blasphemy. I refrained... Continue reading
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Faith is an orientation of the soul, not an accord with a collection of facts. If sin ultimately means alienation from God, then its cure, true repentance, must consist in a re-orientation of one's mind, soul and life toward Jesus... Continue reading
Reading the Bible a certain way changes the heart. Ephraim Radner Let brotherly love continue. Hebrews 13:1 I’ve been arguing that Hebrews is concerned to show how the sacrifices of Cain and Abel both fail, and how Jesus’ sacrifice, as... Continue reading
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The Feast of the Conscience – Lazar Puhalo Let us think of today as the feast of the conscience, because our conscience is our judge. The holy fathers tell us that even on Judgment Day when the Lord is present,... Continue reading
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When you work closely with those struggling with addiction, universalism increasingly becomes a foregone conclusion. The "repent or perish" motif is cast in a new light. With addicts, the very capacity to repent, to choose, has been infected and impeded.... Continue reading
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A prayerful reflection after reading Athanasius' letter to Marcellinus on reading the Psalms, particularly this quote: "... the reader takes all its (the Psalter) words upon his lips as though they were his own..." First, Psalm 2: Why do the... Continue reading
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Courage shielded her brother until the rescuers arrived. This is from David Hart’s moving argument for the gospel’s God, The Doors of the Sea (2005). Read it when you are ready for something beautiful to take hold of your heart... Continue reading
Mark Braverman is a Jewish author, activist, and organizer for Palestinean rights in Israel. He is the executive director of Kairos USA. In this interview with Bradley Jersak, he discusses his journey as a young Zionist, through deconstruction, and through... Continue reading
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Bradley Jersak, Out of the Embers: Faith After The Great Deconstruction (Whitaker House, 2022) Out of the Embers, like the perennial wise and far-seeing Phoenix, knows the meaning of going to places of death and disappointment, suffering and sadness, and... Continue reading
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Bill Morgan, Thomas Merton & Lawrence Ferlinghetti: and the Protection of All Beings (Beatdom Books, 2022) As to the U.S. Beats I am more in sympathy with them but in most cases I do not respond to them fully. Thomas... Continue reading
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CEW Green 1. Whatever else “Christian nationalism” is in theory, in practice, it turns out to be a way of talking about Jesus so that no one, including him, can keep us from doing the evils we think we need... Continue reading
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The Orthodox concept of redemption may be briefly epitomized as follows: the meaning of "atonement" is really "to remove (or overcome) the cause of separation." In other words, man is alienated from God by sin (by his constant "missing of... Continue reading
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Icon: Copyright Oleksandr Antoniuk - UPB to KT When we tell the story of the world well, it is converting, not condemning. The world’s true story gives life. And we cannot tell the world’s story well—we cannot tell our story... Continue reading
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Deconstructing Deconstruction – Felicia Murrell (w/Brad Jersak) Editor’s Note: The following interview is a partial transcript of one for four forthcoming podcast interviews on “deconstruction” at Stephen Backhouse’s Tent Theology Podcast. Bradley Jersak will be serving as co-host in interviews... Continue reading