With 30+ years of experience providing spiritual care and support to numerous individuals and groups, I am often described as a thoughtful mystic, an accidental activist, and intuitively empathetic. I am passionate about helping folks connect with the God-who-is-love in healthy, thoughtful, and life-giving ways, helping them to experience this love in personally transforming ways.
I hold a Master of Ministry - Spiritual Formation (2011) and a Master of Arts - Theology and Culture (2024). I authored the book "Becoming Love: Avoiding Common Forms of Christian Insanity." I contributed to the book Partnering with God: Exploring Collaboration in Open and Relational Theology(2021) and Amipotence: Support and Criticism (Dec. 2024), along with many faith-inspired articles, several of which have been published and referenced by various blogs, leadership and spiritual care websites.
Michael serves:
as a trained and experienced Spiritual Director
as a trained and experienced Grief & Loss Specialist
as a retreat leader, educator, and conference speaker
as an Open & Relational theologian
as a Teilhardian-inspired theologian
Board member of the Taber Equality Alliance
as a founder of a relational faith community in Taber, Alberta
a co-founder, Board member, and ordained in Mosaic Ministries, Calgary
Spiritual Care Hospital Chaplain (retired Jan 2021)
We were having dinner a while ago - going around the table, each person sharing about their day. As a person was sharing something exciting, the familiar "voice mail received" rudely interrupted. Without a second thought, the message was tended to. We realized that this little intrusion stole a very precious moment from us. “Somewhere we know that without silence Continue Reading...
Consider a rose. Can a rose choose who it will share its breath-taking beauty with? Can it withhold its captivating fragrance from bad people and share liberally with good people? The sun shines, and the rain falls on the saints and the sinners alike. Authentic love does not discriminate, like the beauty and fragrance of the rose, the sun, and the Continue Reading...
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. A story can hold so much more than dry propositions or facts and one of the reasons Jesus was such an effective communicator was because He employed stories. In these stories, Jesus could communicate big ideas in a way that they could be more accessible. These stories have come to be called parables. Parables Continue Reading...