Lectures
Dismantling the Doctrine of Discovery Lecture Series: “Unpacking the ‘Such As’: Towards Repudiating a Few More Colonial Concepts
January 12, Online for Canterbury College
This lecture takes seriously the TRC calls for churches to repudiate any concepts or doctrines that contributed to colonialism. Moving beyond the Doctrine of Discovery, I argue that English Protestant forms of Christianity have yet to reckon with the ways theologies of property, that I name “Adamic Dominion”, were operative in the colonial era and continue to operate uninterrogated today.
Words Strain Series, Lecture 1: “There’s Not Enough Silence Here: TS Eliot and Modern Theology”
Oct 23, 2025, at St John’s Cathedral
Part of a 6-part lecture series on Anglican Poetics funded by the Calvin Institute for Vital Preaching, Vital Worship with funds from the Lilly Foundation. This lecture explores the use of silence in the poetry of TS Eliot and the paradox of the verbum infans and offers a constructive theological use of silence in the work of contemporary Truth and Reconciliation efforts.
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)