Mark Clavier is an American living in the U.K. where he serves as Canon Theologian of the Diocese of Swansea & Brecon and vicar of St Mary’s Brecon. He is a regular contributor to BBC Radio Wales and is the Director of Convivium: an initiative to connect faith with local environments, heritage, and communities. His latest book, A Pilgrimage of Paradoxes: A Backpacker’s Encounters with God and Nature, is a theological reflection on his many walks in Wales. You can follow him at www.markclavier.com.
Mark Clavier
Articles by Mark Clavier
Lead Kindly Light
And so, feeling blessed by the rich experiences of my ministry, I stand at the start of a new year in the dying days of the old one.
Stories of Healing and Wholeness: An Appreciative Engagement with Wendell Berry’s The Need to be Whole
Brecon, Wales. Stories are a necessary part of healing and wholeness. I don’t just mean a story we may like or we tell ourselves (though they include that), nor do…
Is Progressivism Sustainable?
We cannot sustain the rhetoric of conservation and sustainability if our society remains fixated on ideas of economic and technological progress. We cannot become a people who cherish the land…
“Magically Turning White”: A Family Story of Slavery, Racism, and Redemption
Mark Clavier describes coming to terms with the fact that he is a white Southerner descended from enslaved Africans who subsequently became slave-owners. Reflecting on an ancestry containing triumph and…
A Pastoral Inheritance: James Rebanks and a Tribute to Our Late Cathedral Sacristan
There is much wisdom contained in English Pastoral for suffering churches. If the last fifty years have shown that innovation and modernization aren’t the solution to our ill-health, they have…
Augustine the Agrarian
The world is God’s farm, his flourishing garden. We find ourselves as his workers in his fields, called to cultivate the land and the souls, minds, and bodies of ourselves…
Baldwin, Buckley, and Berry on Racism and the World Order
Drawing from both Baldwin and Berry allows us to see that the racist and imperial policies of the past continue to do immense social, economic, cultural, and ecological damage around…