Shawn Sanford Beck -- born, raised and educated in Yorkton and area -- is now a pastor with the United Church in Saskatoon with a special mission. He was an Anglican priest, a position he left due to some unresolved conflicts with that denomination.
He subscribes to and has written about Christian animism, is a member of the Order or Bards, Ovates and Druids, teaches Green Priestcraft, and considers himself a Christo-pagan. He is an author, as is his wife Janice and one son, and the family lived off the grid north of North Battleford for almost nine years before returning to Saskatoon to assume new duties with the United Church.
He is not your conventional clergyman. His intent is not to convert you. But for those interested in looking at Christianity from a different and wider viewpoint, he offers ample food for thought.
Links to a wide variety of information about "my somewhat unorthodox religious quest over the years", as Rev. Sanford Beck notes; many discussed or mentioned in the podcast.
A Prairie Rune on co-author Darcy Blahut's website Via Poetica.
Christian Animism by Shawn Sanford Beck, on Amazon.ca and on Collectiveinkbooks.com.
Living a bi-spiritual life, on the Philip Carr-Gomm website.
Green Priestcraft, video on the Christian Animism website.
GreenSpirit Chaplaincy on the website of the Ecumenical Companions of Sophia.
Green Priestcraft: A ChristoPagan Pastoralia by Shawn Sandford Beck on the witchesandpagans.com
Writings by family members
A series of six books about Life on the Trail, by Janice Sanford Beck and her father Emerson Beck.
No Ordinary Woman, by Janice Sanford Beck.
Attending to the Full Moral Landscape, a paper written by Christopher Sanford Beck of the University of Victoria, on Arbutus Review.
A young Shawn with dad Brian and mom Paula.
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