Lectures
Hearing God Here: Revelation and the Phenomenology of Place
Pope Francis, inviting all people of good-will to an ecological conversion, notes the importance of our attachment to particular places. "The entire material universe speaks of God’s love, his boundless affection for us. Soil, water, mountains: everything is, as it were, a caress of God. The history of our friendship with God is always linked to particular places which take on an intensely personal meaning; we all remember places, and revisiting those memories does us much good." God always meets us somewhere. What is it about the nature of the God who wills to make Godself known that allows for an incredibly ordinary experience - being somewhere - to be part of the structure of Revelation?
February 2025
Ste Madeleine: The Haunting of Settler Memory
This presentation examines the public memory of the site of Ste. Madeleine, MB. I use critical insights from settler colonialism studies and hauntology to interrogate the silence of the settler description of this site in order to demonstrate how the Indigenous haunted psyche of settler colonialism reproduces violent erasures even through allegedly legitimate conservation efforts.
(February, 2022)
Anglo-Protestant Colonial Ideologies
Responding to the TRC Calls to Action: this talk focuses on some specific English Protestant ideologies invoked in the late 16th and early 17th centuries to colonize North America. By understanding these theological rationales we can better understand how to commit to responding to this Call to Action.
(June 2021)
The Wiliness of Sin
This is part one and two of a lecture I gave for a Theological Anthropology class at Tyndale University.
(October, 2021)
