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Dr. Gordon E. Carkner Articles

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Incarnational Spirituality Series: A New Horizon
By PortalBot • September 09, 2021

Incarnational Spirituality Series: A New Horizon. Read part one, and find links to the rest of this blog series by Dr. Gordon E. Carkner.

Freedom, Identity and the Good: the Theological Ethics of Christian Community
By PortalBot • July 04, 2021

Christian freedom flourishes within a trinitarian horizon. Trinitarian divine goodness proves to be a fruitful plausibility structure within which to think about human freedom, community and the mo...

The Big Question: Why Do We Suffer?
By PortalBot • January 10, 2021

Dr. Gordon E. Carkner leads an inspiring discussion on this key universal question. He claims that our worldview is critical to the understanding of suffering and how it operates in our lives. The ...

The Existential Identity Crisis of Millennials
By PortalBot • December 03, 2020

Dr. Gordon E. Carkner opens this sensitive discussion of Millennial angst from a compassionate stance. As a father of a Millennial and a UBC campus support person with Graduate Christian Union and ...

Gnosticism vs. the Gospel of Incarnation
By PortalBot • October 21, 2020

Gnosticism, both historically and presently, offers a starkly alternative religion to Christianity and a constant temptation that appeals to the individual ego. It offers a religion “under our cont...

Charles Taylor and the Modern Quest for Identity
By PortalBot • January 25, 2020

Pre-eminent McGill University Emeritus Philosopher Charles Taylor is an iconic international scholar in the field of the late modern self.  Millennials are currently facing a significant exist...

Everything is New in 2020 in Light of the Incarnation
By PortalBot • December 22, 2019

God’s word of love becomes flesh in us, is embodied in us, is enacted through us and in doing so, trust is forged between word spoken and the reality of which it speaks, between the words we speak ...

The Prayer of a Student Skeptic
By PortalBot • October 23, 2019

Dear God, Buddha, Allah, Plato, Krishna, Beings from other planets, Jesus, Confucius, Zeus, Ra, the Universe, the Great Principle, etc.

Is anyone out there? Pluralism is confusing. Could ...

Dialogue on Jesus
By PortalBot • June 27, 2016

There exist today in the minds of people many different versions of Jesus. Cultural interpretation is a key factor in this dialogue. Few would dispute that Jesus is a historical figure, that he is&...