No longer being plagued by violent God-images, as expressed in doctrines like penal substitution, infernalist notions of judgement and the accompanying fear of hopeless abandonment, I find my heart slowly coming back to a place of genuine worship again, including through music and writing ...

My thesis, Priming for War, Praying for Peace: Building Peace through Ontological Security, argued that violence is the logical result of the stories manipulated and told by powerful mnemonic agents in an attempt to create a collective sense of ontological security...

My thesis, Priming for War, Praying for Peace: Building Peace through Ontological Security, argued that violence is the logical result of the stories manipulated and told by powerful mnemonic agents in an attempt to create a collective sense of ontological security...

I was unable to form the words on my lips because my soul was screaming internally. All I heard within was “It is NOT well with my soul. It is NOT well with my soul.”  All I could do was bow my head in grief and silently agree with the screams of my soul.

“He is not my enemy,” he said. I asked again, “Which animal is your enemy then?” “It's me,” he answered.

Often, I feel the need to lose my salvation, at least the version that I try to control comfortably. Not due to its lack of reality or beauty, but because I tend to tame it. To capture it. To colonize it. To memorialize it and construct a tower out of it...

If we want to experience the fulness of God’s love and be healed, we have to take the risk of being vulnerable, building relationships that are mutual and based on grace not compulsion.

2025 Commencement Address: "A Journey of Indigenous Values and Spirituality Today"

Safi Kaskas was awarded with a Doctor of Divinity (honoris causa) at St. Stephen's University, NB Canada - 04-30-2025. Safi also received SSU's prestigious "Peace & Justice Legacy Award." Present with him were his wife, Eman, and daughter, Maha.

Guard the image of humanity, for it is the manifest image of God. Look for it in your neighbour. Search for it. Seek it. For it is found even in your enemy.