Occasional Essays - The Good, the True, the Beautiful
On the 5th of May, 2014, I gave the Convocation Address for the Vancouver School of Theology, held at Christ Church Cathedral, Vancouver. President Richard Topping asked me to give the address on the occasion of the graduation of an number of VST students and when a honorary degree [degree honoris causa] were bestowed on the distinguished Chief Robert Joseph and distinguished Professor Doug Hall. It afforded a lovely occasion to think about vocation, the common human vocation, that the graduating students of VST would now take up having "renewed their minds" through study and the spiritual formation they had engaged over the last few years. I drew on a surprising experience I was blessed with a few years before when I visited the Church of Saint Gregory Nazianzen in southern Cappadocia in Turkey.