Tag Archives: Holy Week

Strike My Heart So the Tears Will Flow

By Robin Bates | Published: April 18, 2019

Good Friday In her poem “Good Friday,” Christina Rossetti laments that she responds to Christ’s death like a stone, not a faithful sheep. Why can’t she be like the women who wept at the foot of the cross, or Peter who wept for his betrayal, or the sun and the moon that hid their faces? […]

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Caught Up in the Singing

By Robin Bates | Published: April 13, 2019

Palm Sunday Anglican priest and poet Malcolm Guite is the author of many wondrous lyrics, including “Seventy Sonnets for the Christian Year” found in Sounding the Season (Canterbury 2012). “Palm Sunday” captures something I’ve always noticed but never fully grasped—that days before the trauma of Good Friday, there’s a moment of euphoria that seems to […]

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Replacing the Temple with the Torah

By Robin Bates | Published: March 29, 2015

Nicole Krauss’s marvelous novel “Great House” finds hope in the Torah, which takes many forms.

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