Jeffrey Metcalfe

Who am I? Maybe where is a better question. Landscapes, after all, shape our meaning. I dwell at the confluence of the St. Lawrence and St. Charles rivers, within the territory of the Huron-Wendat, near the littoral zone of Quebec City.  Littorals are generative spaces where diverse lifeways converge, allowing for mutually enriching entanglements and encounters. Here, Where the River Narrows, I find myself reflecting on what it means to live faithfully and to flourish in the spaces in-between secular and sacred, success and failure, faith and doubt.

I dwell here as an Anglican theologian and priest, called to love, understand, and undo harm.

Littorally Speaking is a collection of my fieldnotes from the sacred edge. In a time of great ecological and institutional unraveling, these reflections endeavour to explore the question “how then shall we live?”

Beyond These Shores

Below I have gathered some of my reflections published beyond Littorally Speaking. Here you’ll find essays, reflections, and interviews that have appeared in other publications, engaging with the intersections of faith, culture, and place.

I have been interviewed in Trinity Magazine and The Living Church about my work in Quebec, exploring theology, land, and the Church’s future in a changing world. You can read them here and here.