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What's New Spring 2004: A Storied Universe
INCLUDES: Arthur
Paul Patterson clarifies the importance of all of the stories that inform
our lives in Getting
the Cosmic Story Straight. Cal Wiebe in A
World Shaped by Promise explores John Haught’s God
After Darwin. John Mabry discusses the prophetic insight of a great
mystic and scientist in Cyberspace
and the Dream of Teilhard de Chardin. In Listening
for Future’s Call, a Lorna Derksen responds to Greg
Bear’s novels, Darwin’s Radio and Darwin’s
Children. Linda Tiessen Wiebe explores Rudolph Steiner’s Mystics
After Modernism in Searching
It Out: Mystic Modernism. Bev Patterson and Linda Tiessen
Wiebe describe their love of nature in A
Jungle Party and An
Elephant Birthday. In Stargazing:
Inspiration for Reconnecting with the Spirit, Lyle Penner
recounts the evocative experience of gazing heavenward. Dave and Erik
Berg and Lorna Derksen adapted Jennifer Morgan's Born
With A Bang as a slideshow for Fall, 2003 retreat.
Lyle, Lydia and Joel Penner adapted Jennifer Morgan'sFrom
Lava To Life as a slideshow for our Fall, 2003 retreat.
Lydia Penner reviews In
His Own Words, by Morrie Schwartz.
What's New Winter 2004: Wondrous Strange
INCLUDES: Arthur
Paul Patterson reflects on the importance of memories in Keep
My Memory Green
and on the virtue of courage in the aftermath of 9/11 in Meditation
on Courage. Sponging
the Stone by Arthur Paul Patterson brings the transformative
power of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol to life. Arthur Paul
Patterson responds to Joe Cusumano’s Transforming
Scrooge. Deconstructing
Scrooge by Lorna Derksen reviews Bruce Bueno Mesquita’s
post-modern novel The Trial of Ebenezer Scrooge. Linda Tiessen
Wiebe reviews the movie No
Such Thing . Karma Jampa Lhundup-Zebo shares his spiritual
transformation in My
Peter Pan Adventures. In Traintalk,
Arthur Paul Patterson contrasts tourism with pilgrimage. Erik Berg writes
a poem on Dickens in It
Came Upon a Christmas Day. Erik Berg and his mom Bev Patterson
exchange
thoughts on the important role of reading in their lives.
Arthur Paul Patterson recommends Peter Carey’s Jack
Maggs, a novel based on Dickens’ Great Expectations.
What's New Spring 2003: Spirit in the
Everyday
INCLUDES: The
Price of Pretension, an excerpt from Arthur Paul Patterson's
work-in-progress Beauty of the Beast;
Walking Through my Life follows Cal Wiebe on his weekly walk
as he reflects on nature; Faith
and Conservation, a guest opinion piece that points to the
sacramentality of nature; adventures with randomly giving away books in
Sharing
my Book Friends with Strangers and My
BookCrossing Adventure; Linda Tiessen Wiebe reviews Blackberry
Wine; inBirds
and Being Graham Warne describes the wonder and yearning
for freedom evoked through bird watching; William R. Stimson finds a gateway
to joy in About
a Garlic Clove on a Thursday Morning; Lyle Penner presents
a book proposal for A
Vision Runs Through It, a historical reflection on Watershed
Community’s spiritual journey; the domestic arts are explored in
Cooking
with Spirit and Household
Prisoner or Domestic Artist; , readers from Watershed Community
share their top book picks from 2002 in A
Reading List.
What's
New Fall/Winter 2002: Spirit in Community
INCLUDES: Standing
Alone Together, an exploration of the meeting of Spirit in
the mystery of Watershed community; Consider
the Rabbits, a closer look at Richard Adams’ Watership
Down; Shedding
the Husks of Dogma, a comparison of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s
brand of transcendentalism and an evolving Watershed spirituality; an
internally produced video
retrospective of the Watershed community’s history;
Forgiveness
in Community, a personal reflection; Wilber
and Watershed: Criteria for Religious Legitimacy and Authenticity,
an application of the integral philosophy of Ken Wilber to Watershed spirituality;
Watermark
Gallery, watercolours by Bev Patterson; Courage
on the Mountain: A Review of Lord Brocktree.
What's
New Spring/Summer 2002: Reading for Life
INCLUDES: A book proposal entitled Beauty
of the Beast by Arthur Paul Patterson; Joseph Gold reflects
on how reading can restore us to ourselves his excerpt, On
Bibliotherapy; Linda Tiessen Wiebe tells how reading can
develop an inner voice in Chew
It Slowly; Arthur Paul Patterson examines the balance between
the constrictive and expansive effects of horror in Encountering
the Horror and the Holy; Bev Patterson untangles
the mystery behind the Winnipeg mystery bookstore, Whodunit;
Glenn Morison shares insights into spirituality revealed in the movie
Smoke
Signals; Lydia Penner reflects on her relationship to reading
in Book
Reflections; Cal Wiebe shares his encounter with books in
For
the Love of Reading; Lyle Penner offers his musings on Relating
to Reading; the following books are reivewed: Speaking
From the Heart, The
Lord of the Rings trilogy, The
Hobbit, Forgotten
Realms: Homeland.
What's New
Winter 2002: Humanity's Template
INCLUDES: An application of Ken Wilber's Integral philosophy
to the study
of the life of Jesus; a
chronicle of various cinematic depictions of the
life of Jesus; a response
to Kazantzakis’
The Last Temptation of Christ; a response to
Jim
Crace's Quarantine; Watershed
Book Picks for 2001
What's New Fall 2001:
The Anatomy of Monsters
INCLUDES:
Arthur Paul Patterson's article
Monsters at the
Margin analyzing the ambiguity of Frankenstein's Monster; an excerpt
from Dracula
and Frankenstein contributed by world renowned Dracula expert
Elizabeth Miller; a review of Readings
on Frankenstein; Passions
of Prometheus which unearths the linkage between men and monsters;
a response to Beowolf,
the first English epic. Other reviews include: Father
of Frankenstein (a novel about James Whale, the director of
the 1931 Frankenstein); The
Strange Trial of Mr. Hyde (a Jungian analysis of Robert Louis
Stevenson's novel); The
BFG (a children's story about deceptive appearances).
What's New Summer 2001: The Science of Soul
INCLUDES:
Contemplative
Spiritual Formation an article by Gerald May of Shalem Institute,
Bill Stimson describes our Source as being both external and internal
to us in his essay, The
Splendor of Worship, the anonymous 13th century author of The
Cloud of Unknowing encounters Linda Tiessen Wiebe,
As
a Driven Leaf reviewed by Linda Tiessen Wiebe,
The
Cloister Walk reviewed by Lorna Derksen, Dave
Berg shares how Gerald May’s book The
Awakened Heart has provided practical advice on how to practice
contemplative spirituality, Yoga
– More Than a
Good Stretch by Lydia Penner, Jim Pender’s introduction to
his doctoral thesis, Restless
Hearts, places his spiritual journey under the microscope of academic
processes, in Facets of
Fat, Arthur Paul Patterson applies Ken Wilber’s research
model to struggling with the social, emotional and spiritual problems
of eating disorders and their interpretations.
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