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Reflections for a Slow and Sacred Life: Finding Stillness, Meaning, and Presence in a Hurried World.

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    The Long Shadow of Parents

    August 25, 2025 - By Dave Spence

    If the breakfast nook is a chapel, then my parents are the stained-glass windows—coloured panes through which all light must…

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    At the Breakfast Nook

    August 24, 2025 - By Dave Spence

    The philosopher in me has always suspected that truth is not found in lecture halls or ivory towers but in…

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    Living Toward Time

    August 23, 2025 - By Dave Spence

    A Posture for Fulfilment Having wandered through the corridors of time—its mystery, its embodiment in flesh, its shifting textures of…

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    Eternity in an Hour

    August 22, 2025 - By Dave Spence

    Time, we are told, is inexorable. The clock ticks, the sun sets, the years accumulate in our joints and our…

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    Living Narratively

    August 21, 2025 - By Dave Spence

    One of the more curious features of being human is that we cannot help but tell stories. We do it…

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    The Weight of the Past, the Pull of the Future

    August 20, 2025 - By Dave Spence

    To be human is to live stretched between two horizons. Behind us lies the vast country of the past, filled…

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    Time as Teacher

    August 19, 2025 - By Dave Spence

    If one listens carefully, one begins to notice that time has its own pedagogy. It does not lecture, nor does…

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    Chronos and Kairos

    August 18, 2025 - By Dave Spence

    The Greeks, who were never short of words for things that matter, had at least two for time. The first,…

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    The Body and the Clock

    August 17, 2025 - By Dave Spence

    If one wishes to understand time, it is best not to begin with astronomy or physics, but with the mirror.…

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    What is Time, Really?

    August 16, 2025 - By Dave Spence

    It is a strange thing, time. We are born into it like fish into water, hardly noticing its presence until…

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