In his poem about the wedding at Cana, Rilke sees Mary as a proud mother who inadvertently pushes her son towards his destiny by asking him to perform a miracle. On reflection, she realizes what she did.
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Mary’s Dangerous Request at Cana
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Theoretically, a Season for Everything
The soul, says Amichai Yehuda in this Rosh Hashanah poem, knows that, for everything there is a season. The body, on the other hand, gets the seasons all muddled up.
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Though Thou Art in Thy Blood, Live
Spiritual Sunday A couple of weeks ago my library reading group discussed Marilynne Robinson’s Lila, the third novel in what one member described as a triptych. I love Robinson’s depiction of the Congregationalist minister John Ames in Gilead, and Lila gives us the backstory of the woman that Ames marries as an old man. (Home, […]
(Limitless Pity Makes All Large & New)
Spiritual Sunday Today’s Old Testament reading is the episode in the Book of Jonah after that conflicted man returns from the whale episode and this time does what God has commanded him to do, which is to prophesy to the people of Nineveh about their wickedness. In the Keith Schlegel poem I have chosen, one […]
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And God Said, “That’s Good”
James Weldon Johnson’s version of the Genesis creation story accords with some contemporary theological theories of God.
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Lit, Like Christ, Is Divinity Made Manifest
The opening lines of the Book of John can be used to describe how literature operates in the world.
Wrestling with (My God!) My God
The story of Jacob wrestling with the angel finds powerful expression in Gerard Manley’s Hopkins’ “Carrion Comfort.”
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Christianity in the Slave Owning South
“Uncle Tom’s Cabin” shows how the Bible can be misused and how we should interpret it to promote social justice.
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