Tag Archives: Leonard Cohen

In Penny’s Mysteries, Art Gets Murdered

By Robin Bates | Published: October 22, 2023

In Louise Penny’s murder mysteries, art is an authentic spiritual channel that can be corrupted in the receiving.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged , , , , | Comments closed

On Leonard Cohen’s Suzanne

By Robin Bates | Published: August 12, 2023

Cohen’s “Suzanne” is a poem about spiritual searching.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged , , | Comments closed

What I Heard Was My Whole Self

By Robin Bates | Published: January 13, 2019

Spiritual Sunday Today’s Gospel reading concerns Jesus’s awakening as he was being baptized by John. That moment was his own epiphany, when the membrane between the sacred and the profane was penetrated and he realized that God dwells within us (Luke 3:21-22): Now when all the people were baptized, and when Jesus also had been […]

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged , , , , , , , | Comments closed

Calling Out Trump’s War Enablers

By Robin Bates | Published: April 20, 2017

Too many beltway insiders are singing the praises of Donald Trump’s foreign policy bellicosity, with Brian Williams unironically quoting Leonard Cohen’s “I am guided by the beauty of your weapons.” He should quote Dylan’s “Masters of War” instead.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged , , , , , , | Comments closed