Two Palm Sunday poems, by Lucille Clifton and Henry Vaughan, emphasize the vegetation imagery.
Monthly Archives: April 2022
Kiss the Earth with Your Feet
This Thich Nhat Hahn poem can be used to simultaneously celebrate Buddha’s birthday and National All Is Ours Day, both April 8 holidays.
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“Othello’s” Toxic Relationships
“Othello” continues to raise urgent questions that we’ve got to grapple with.
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Read “12th Night” for Relationship Advice
In their essays on “Twelfth Night,” my students showed they are hungry for authentic relationships.
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Putin Is Giving War a Bad Name
Some who support fascists would prefer that they stay clean. Brecht has something to say about them.
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Brecht: Don’t Become Numb to Suffering
Brecht warns against becoming numb to the world’s horrors.
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Jesus: Choose Life, Not Death
Spiritual Sunday Reprinted from March, 2016 I’ve long been puzzled by today’s Gospel reading in which Mary anoints Jesus’s feet with costly perfume, only to be chastised by Judas for wastefulness. There’s something sensual about her wiping the feet with her hair, but what role does the episode play in Jesus’s journey? Mary took a […]
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