Monthly Archives: September 2018

Welcome Stranger to This Place

By Robin Bates | Published: September 9, 2018

The story of Jesus healing an unclean gentile reminds us all to welcome the stranger. Blake shows us the heaven that awaits when we do.

By Robin Bates | Published: September 7, 2018

The GOP is currently hiding Judge Kavanaugh’s past in the George W. Bush White House. Needed is Jack Burden from “All the King’s Men.”

By Robin Bates | Published: September 6, 2018

White House scandals are coming into the open. William Wycherley could write a Restoration comedy about it all.

By Robin Bates | Published: September 5, 2018

In which I compare Federer’s upset loss to the final stage of an up and down disease, such as that described in Turgenev’s “Fathers and Sons.”

By Robin Bates | Published: September 4, 2018

The Yeats poem “Cuchulain’s Fight with the Sea,” invoked to memorialize John McCain, works as an allegory of how the GOP is losing millennials.

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By Robin Bates | Published: September 3, 2018

Langston Hughes understood working men and women as well as anyone, as his poem “Brass Spittoons” demonstrates.

By Robin Bates | Published: September 2, 2018

John Gatta’s book “Making Nature Sacred” explores how nature spirituality entered into America’s religions and was noted by its creative writers.