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Review from Autumn 2021

Andrew Gilchrist

Dec 17, 2021
1 min

Review from Autumn 2021

This one slipped off my radar. Special thanks to Tom. He read my book and thought about it for a long time. But, he was a bit sneaky with his review. It took me over a month to notice he put up a review in Amazon. He never actually told me! Now to give his words a little more reach, I've made some shareable images. Andrew Gilchrist's The Divine Daughter asks us for a noticing. It asks us for a remembrance ("re-membrance"), to draw together a wholeness in distinguished space

Mere Meaningful Membership - Faith Statements or Questions?

Andrew Gilchrist

Nov 25, 2021
1 min

Mere Meaningful Membership - Faith Statements or Questions?

New in the series: Do statements of faith try to answer too much? Today in the meaning crisis, can people gather in religious communities to ask questions rather than hold to statements? Why do we spend so little time on the questions? I explore 4 common claims found in Mere Christianity and apply some ideas from Jordan Peterson in order to pull those statements back so that we can ask the more important questions first. Some slides from the video: #JordanPeterson #MereChrist

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Andrew Gilchrist

Oct 13, 2021
1 min

Mere Meaningful Membership - Looking at Jordan Peterson, God, and Christianity

Chris Kaczor and Matt Petrusek have put together a book - Jordan Peterson, God, and Christianity. We decided to exchange books. Before...

Review From Mel H. - Inspiration and Connection

Andrew Gilchrist

Aug 11, 2021
2 min

Review From Mel H. - Inspiration and Connection

Do you read in the morning? Maybe you have a favourite chair and mug, both filled with warmth and comfort. Perhaps the only time you have to

Convictions and Handmaids

Andrew Gilchrist

Jul 19, 2021
3 min

Convictions and Handmaids

“I like to terrorize my protagonist… and so I do!” Thomas King Fiction writers often dream up the worst hells imaginable just to see if the

Review from T. Pace - A Meta-Modern Epic Prose Poem

Andrew Gilchrist

Jul 16, 2021
1 min

Review from T. Pace - A Meta-Modern Epic Prose Poem

What comes to your mind when you read the word "meta-modern" in a review? Would you consider yourself modern, post-modern, or meta-modern? In some ways, meta-modern developments may be seen as a reaction... a reaction to a reaction, actually. But instead of becoming a reactionary with too much nostalgia for some imaginary ideal past, or falling into resentment and bitter polarization, the meta-modern impulse can also encourage participation. What does it mean to take up the l

Familiar, Canadian, Poetic - A Review and Conversation with JJ Russell

Andrew Gilchrist

Jul 3, 2021
1 min

Familiar, Canadian, Poetic - A Review and Conversation with JJ Russell

JJ Russell plays music while sorting out psychological and spiritual ideas on his Youtube Channel. I encourage you to check out his songs, but also spend some time with his videos on My Goddamn Garage. A mutual friend suggested sending him a copy of The Divine Daughter. So we got in touch with him and sent him a copy. AND HE READ IT!! Not only did he read it, but he had some glowing, heart-warming things to say. He picked up on the Canadian threads in the book, and the poetic

Corruption, Correction, Christianity

Andrew Gilchrist

Jun 15, 2021
5 min

Corruption, Correction, Christianity

[From a social media post and conversation] I hope the title of this post can be read in the spirit of a "light touch." I am fascinated with the role of correction in spirituality - on the individual level, and how institutions handle corruption or mistakes with correction. This need not be about Christianity exclusively. All religious movements, at some point, face the matter of corruption of the way and correcting a movement's aim back to the way. Do you feel your spiritual

Review from Anne - The Tone is Awesome

Andrew Gilchrist

May 14, 2021
2 min

Review from Anne - The Tone is Awesome

For some time now I've struggled to find an intriguing political angle for The Divine Daughter. When people ask the inevitable question...

God is Our Daughter

Andrew Gilchrist

Apr 22, 2021
2 min

God is Our Daughter

Many want to view the world as a place defined by oppressors and oppressed. That's only one story. You would never say a healthy family is

AUDIOBOOK Version Now Available

Andrew Gilchrist

Apr 7, 2021
2 min

AUDIOBOOK Version Now Available

Over a year ago now, I asked a friend if he would help me produce the audiobook version of my book, The Divine Daughter. Imagine my surprise

The Daughter Archetype - Observing or Projecting?

Andrew Gilchrist

Mar 10, 2021
5 min

The Daughter Archetype - Observing or Projecting?

In my book, I draw out sketches for each member of the archetypal family. This morning, a thought popped into my head - a revision, a recons

The Granddaughter Test for Political Candidates

Andrew Gilchrist

Feb 21, 2021
2 min

The Granddaughter Test for Political Candidates

Have you ever heard of the Granddaughter Test? This comes from a story about two voters arguing over political candidates. Imagine two men,

Working with Creatives

Andrew Gilchrist

Dec 16, 2020
1 min

Working with Creatives

I talked with some fascinating people this weekend about the stories they want to share. You could almost watch as they bubbled over with...

Plutocracy, Pitchforks, Patience

Andrew Gilchrist

Nov 13, 2020
2 min

Plutocracy, Pitchforks, Patience

I’ve been thinking about the tide of resentment back and forth created by things like politics. Nick Hanauer’s article from 2014 - “The Pitchforks Are Coming… For Us Plutocrats” - reads in 2020 more like a strange, persistent problem than any prophecy. Link to Nick Hanauer's article on Politico Hanauer invested early in Bezos and Amazon. He loves capitalism, but he believes the best investment in capitalism is the middle class, not the plutocrats. People can be amazingly pati

Spiritually Inadequate Obsessions - Trees on Mars by Hal Niedzviecki

Andrew Gilchrist

Aug 22, 2020
2 min

Spiritually Inadequate Obsessions - Trees on Mars by Hal Niedzviecki

How did the future, or the new, become so much more important than the now, the present moment? Spiritually, we are told the present-now is

Saving Your Father - a look at Saving Mr Banks

Andrew Gilchrist

Aug 9, 2020
1 min

Saving Your Father - a look at Saving Mr Banks

Ever watch Saving Mr Banks? A daughter falls in love with her father’s imagination and writes stories about an incredible nanny...

Review from Rob G

Andrew Gilchrist

Jul 28, 2020
1 min

Review from Rob G

This is one of the more fun reviews so far. I first met Rob in Grade 7. We learned how to play guitar together...

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Andrew Gilchrist

Jun 7, 2020
1 min

Audiobook Sample - The Divine Daughter Foreword and Introduction (16 min)

COVID-19 interrupted my audiobook studio sessions. But, I did get the first 16 minutes from my sound guy. I decided to use the 16 minutes...

Reviews - Even Mom & Dad Have Something to Say

Andrew Gilchrist

Apr 1, 2020
3 min

Reviews - Even Mom & Dad Have Something to Say

Over the winter months, the conversation around the holiday dinner tables turned to my book The Divine Daughter. The conversation didn't really stay on the book, but instead wandered over to other topics and ideas. Kind of like the book, I guess. Anyway, Mom and Dad got thinking about writing reviews for the book. Do you think they are biased readers? But maybe you can find a certain kind of honesty in families and in biases too. Here are their words. From Mom: Andrew says in