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Apocalypse Now: Should the book of Revelation be consigned to the wastebin or...
Photo from stock.xchng by Susan McCaslin If the Song of Songs can be called “the sexiest book in the Bible,” the book of Revelation at the end of the New Testament might be called “the most violent...
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Sexuality and the Song of Songs
Photo © Andry Beka/iStock by Susan McCaslin As an alternative to watching “Sex in the City” or reading a Harlequin romance on your summer vacation, why not try this ancient of ancient texts – the Song...
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Holy Presence: Is Being in the Now Enough?
Photo from Stock.xchng by Susan McCaslin Writing is a mysterious process. Nothing you have to say is final, as there are always new nuances to explore. The next rush of words may just coalesce in...
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The Wars Against the Self
Copyright © Anne-Louise Quarfoth/iStockphoto by Susan McCaslin Today, September 21, is the International Day of Peace. By the time you read this blog, the occasion will have passed, but like Mother’s...
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Art and Activism: An Engaged Aesthetics
Photo from Stock.Xchng by Susan McCaslin When I was first invited to write a series of blogs based on my Wood Lake book, Arousing the Spirit, I was reluctant to blog on my own writing. What I had to...
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Peaceful Resisters
Photo from Stock.Xchng by Susan McCaslin I feel like I’ve always been a Peacenik. Recently, I noticed that my book of essays, Arousing the Spirit, contains no less than three essays on peace, so you...
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Awakening the Peaceful Beast Within
Copyright © visualspectrum/iStockphoto by Susan McCaslin Sometimes a writer notices themes and patterns in her work that she wasn’t consciously aware of during the initial writing. I noticed recently...
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A Morning Meditation on the Value of Periodic, Non-Judgmental Self-Examination
Copyright © Denis Raev/iStockphoto by Susan McCaslin “The unexamined life is not worth living.” Plato I’ve found it helpful to do periodic, non-judgmental self-examinations. The sound of this phrase...
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Arts and Activism
Photo from Stock.Xchng by Susan McCaslin The arts have always been avenues for both contemplation and action. Poetry may be seen as one of the softer art forms, but it can be one of the most powerful....
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Honouring Our Mentors
Copyright © Jakub Krechowicz/Shutterstock by Susan McCaslin From the moment I heard poet Robin Blaser lecture in my first graduate course at Simon Fraser University in 1969, I was drawn like a moth to...
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Grounding Transcendence
Photo from Stock.Xchng by Susan McCaslin Today I want to reclaim the use of the word transcendence. I also want to reclaim my love of the sensual world. Transcendence for me used to signify above,...
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Reconfiguring the Enemy
Photo from Stock.Xchng by Susan McCaslin Lately I’ve been learning how to see the “enemy” as a potential friend who might not be so “other” as first assumed. I became involved recently in a local...
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Reversing the Last Supper
Photo from Stock.Xchng by Susan McCaslin I have in my head an image of people gathered around a table to dine and converse about the state of the world. Plato’s Symposium (or The Banquet), is a...
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Something There Is That Doesn’t Love a Teacher
Copyright, © skynesher/iStock by Susan McCaslin Some serious teacher bashing is going on in British Columbia right now. Shelly Fralic, a journalist for the Vancouver Sun, recently exploited her...
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Opinion: Who would Jesus discriminate against?
by Susan McCaslin This posting originally appeared on The Vancouver Sun’s website at www.vancouversun.com. There has been much recent public debate about whether provincial law societies should...
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What’s So Scary about Words Like “Religion,” “Spirituality” and “Mysticism”?
Photo courtesy of Susan McCaslin by Susan McCaslin This posting originally appeared on the blog of Inanna Publications at www.inanna.ca. The word “religion” can generate more hostility than the other...
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Ecotopias and Big Dreaming
Copyright © David McCloskey, Cascadia-Institute.org by Susan McCaslin This posting originally appeared on the Cascadia Poetry Festival’s website. “You may say I’m a dreamer but I’m not the only one I...
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Grieving the Loss of Our Animal Companion
Photo of Penny courtesy of Susan McClaslin by Susan McCaslin “What is this Joy? That no animal falters, but knows what it must do?” from Come into animal presence, Denise Levertov (Poems: 1960-1967)...
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What We Read This Week
Photo Courtesy of Freeimages.com Each week, we bring you interesting stories from around the web. Here’s what caught our eye this week! ELECTION Trump Confounds The Pros, Connects With Just The Right...
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Femmes Fatales and the Female Muse: John Keats and the Feminine
Photo Courtesy of Freeimages.com by Susan McCaslin This short essay written by Wood Lake author Susan McCaslin first appeared in Dialogue Magazine: “Femmes Fatales & the Female Muse: John Keats...
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