Trevor Carolan
Trevor Carolan is editor of The Lotus Singers: Short Stories from Contemporary South Asia. He writes from Vancouver and teaches at the University of the Fraser Valley.
Bio last updated December 7th, 2020.
Articles by Trevor Carolan
Ash Wednesday: A Buddhist's Reflection
By Trevor Carolan
February 1, 2014
Denial is a healthy spiritual discipline says Trevor Carolan.
Forty-odd years ago, it presented a real Shakespearean dilemma: to wipe or not to wipe off the smudge of ash the priest daubed upon my forehead at the spartan early morning service As human beings, we yearn for ritual — how else to explain the rare exception-to-the-rule Remembrance Day ceremonies that now witness growing public observance? Ash Wednesday is freighted with solemnity, reminding us of our certain mortality and common dusty fate Thanks to Sandy Koufax, I learned more about what it means to be a good Jew, and about what atonement — repentance — might mean for a whole community, even a nation, than I did in 15 years of conventional education and practically a lifetime of mainstream television
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Pushing Back the Barbarians
Trevor Carolan
November 1, 2012
Mapping the multifaith community that grew when Vancouver Buddhists and Christians linked arms in peaceful protest.
Perforce, a dozen of us wrote letters to the gallery director arguing that in a heavily multicultural community such as Vancouver, unless the city's major publicly funded gallery was willing to offend all major faith groups equally and not simply Christians, then the expensive American photographs s...