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The Rev. Martin Elfert is an immigrant to the Christian faith. After the birth of his first child, he began to wonder about the ways in which the Divine was at work in the world. Shortly thereafter, he joined Christ Church Cathedral in Vancouver, BC, where he and his new son were baptized at the Easter Vigil in 2005 and where the community encouraged him to seek ordination.

Elfert now serves as a pastor at the Episcopal Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist. Through his writing he seeks to minister with, and to learn from, all those who hope to get to know God better, he said.

Elfert and his wife, Phoebe, have three children.

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Book fails to answer what it looks like when our deepest values are thoroughly integrated into our work

| Oct 1, 2012

“Being Buddha at Work” is a promising book, but it loses its balance early and never recovers. That’s a shame because the question which it authors, Franz Metcalf and B.J. Gallagher, set out to answer is an important one: what does it look like when our deepest values are thoroughly integrated into our work?
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Term “Christian terrorist” points to hypocrisy

| Sep 23, 2012

Shortly after this summer’s murders at the Sikh Temple in Wisconsin, Sociology Professor Mark Juergensmeyer wrote a short article in which he reflected on the motivations of the perpetrator, Wade Michael Page. In his article, Juergensmeyer identified Page as a “Christian terrorist.”
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Atheist billboard creators should remember “Religion is the original theater”

| Aug 25, 2012

Spokane has joined in the billboard wars. As Thomas J. Brown reported a few weeks back on SpokaneFAVS, our city is the latest in which an atheist group has purchased advertising to argue, among other things, that "Truth is real; God is imaginary."
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The Christian blogosphere’s been busy

| Jul 18, 2012

The Christian blogosphere has been busy these last few days, as one of us after another has weighed in on Ross Douthat’s New York Times Article, “Can Liberal Christianity be Saved?” Some of the reflections have been insightful — see, in particular, Diana Butler Bass’ argument that Douthat has misread the data and, thereby, incorrectly confined a broad decline in American Christianity to certain denominations.
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Adult lessons from children’s books

| Jun 27, 2012

I read a lot of children’s books these days. It’s one of the many benefits of parenthood. Some of the books I know from my own childhood, such as Richard Scarry’s, "Busy Busy Town," with its excitable, anthropomorphic citizens.
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In search of the American bicycle

| Jun 5, 2012

Earlier this year I decided I was going to make good on a long-time plan and buy a road bike. I mostly ride on pavement these days; a few years back, I more or less permanently swapped out the knobbies on my mountain bike for slick tires.
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Love Meets Fear: Reflections After North Carolina’s Amendment One

| May 11, 2012

Prior to going to seminary, I worked in the performing arts as a stage manager. I have a lot of colorful friends from those days.
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Psychologist’s book inspiring, but not transformative

| Apr 5, 2012

I was in my late 20s when I first went to Europe. One of the things that I was most excited about was going to the art museums — growing up on the West Coast, I didn’t have a whole lot of access to the European masters. The museums lived up to their promise: I remember standing before a Van Gog...
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