Jeffrey Metcalfe

I dwell at the confluence of the St. Lawrence and St. Charles rivers, within the territory of the Wendat and Innu, near the littoral zone of Quebec City. Littorals are ecological edges, places of encounter where different ways of life converge.

I dwell here as an Anglican priest and ethicist serving within the Deanery of Quebec, and as Canon Theologian for the Diocese of Quebec. Through prayer, teaching, and critical theological reflection, I seek to build up the church to labour for a more just and gentle world.

Littorally Speaking is a collection of my fieldnotes from that 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 elsewhere. Here you’ll find essays, reflections, and interviews that have appeared in other publications, engaging with the intersections of faith, culture, and place.

Reflections on ethics in The Anglican Journal

"Learning Our Place in the Land: A Critical Theological Reappraisal of Belonging in the Quebec Work of Gregory Baum through the Lens of Willie James Jennings’ Theological Anthropology" – My PhD dissertation on place, race, and belonging in the Quebec context; completed and accessed at The University of Toronto.

"Hoping Without a Future" – published in The Anglican Theological Review.

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.