For the Outdoor Enthusiast

Last year I managed two unforgettable trips: a four-night paddle with James in the Nuchatlitz, and an eleven-day journey with Chris around Cape Scott from Port Hardy to Coal Harbour.

My solo trips remain just as meaningful—challenging, reflective, and deeply rewarding. If you’ve ever considered one, I highly recommend it. It takes courage, but it’s worth it.  

I am looking forward to the 2026 paddle season.

I’ve been a hockey player, pastor, and entrepreneur. I love the outdoors, good conversation, and exploring life’s big questions. My curiosity has led me into theology, philosophy, mysticism, and psychoanalytic thought. I believe every perspective is shaped by a lens—this is mine. We are driven by what we do not have and cannot fully grasp—truth, beauty, justice. For Paul Tillich, this unfulfilled striving is the heart of the religious experience.

Religion at its best does not claim final answers. It keeps us open, helping us live with longing rather than illusions of certainty. To be human is to experience lack, but in embracing it we find honesty, depth, and freedom from false promises.

These are the themes I explore in my writing—not to preserve the status quo, but to wrestle openly with what lies beyond.

In August 2025, my wife of forty-two years died after a courageous battle with ALS. Together, we raised four sons, and today I’m grateful for my two daughters-in-law and four grandsons, who carry her love and legacy forward.

A year later, I find myself in a beautiful new relationship. Life continues to surprise us, offering opportunities to grow, change, and love in ways we never anticipated. I’ve been reminded of how profoundly radical change can affect us, but also of how healthy it is to remain open, flexible, and willing to be changed. In many ways, the work of deconstructing myself parallels the work I’ve been doing around religious and cultural deconstruction.

For the past ten years, I’ve been developing a body of theoretical work exploring how our beliefs, identities, and meaning-making structures shape the way we experience ourselves and the world. Now I want to take that work to the next level. This is what I’ll be exploring in this new season of my life.