In her new book about Biblical healing stories, Hess uses the Gospel’s narrative richness to address issues of depression.
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The Bible, As True as Literature
In “Inspired,” Rachel Held Evans demonstrates how the Bible is true because it functions as literature.
C. S. Lewis: Literature as Theology
Spiritual Sunday I write today about a fascinating talk I heard in our church’s Adult Forum this past Sunday. Dr. Rob MacSwain, editor of The Cambridge Companion to C. S. Lewis, talked about Lewis’s special contribution to our understanding of God and Christianity. MacSwain, who teaches “Theology of Ethics” at Sewanee’s School of Theology, opened […]
The Eternal Doesn’t Want To Be Bent by Us
Rilke draws on the story of Jacob and the Angel in his poem “The Man Watching.” We grow, he writes, by “being defeated, decisively, by constantly greater beings.”
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Emily Dickinson’s “Smart Misery” of Doubt
Emily Dickinson struggled with religious doubt all of her life. Because she desperately wanted to belief, some of her poems show her faith being tested.
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The Simple Creed: Man’s Duty to Man
This poem about the Good Samaritan by Australian working class author Henry Lawson depicts the Samaritan as a figure from the outback.
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Footprints on the Sands of Time
Longfellow’s “Psalm of Life” quotes from today’s Gospel reading–“let the dead bury their own dead”–in ways that help illuminate Jesus’s message.
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