Tag Archives: Easter

“Come Out of Your Jail, Mary”

A W.R. Rodgers poem about Mary Magdalene’s “dawning” realization on Easter morning.

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Oliver: My Work Is Loving the World

in Mary Oliver’s “Messenger,” the poet provides insight into what it means to live forever.

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This Is the Time of Loves

As we are still in the Easter season, here’s a Christina Rossetti carol that captures the joy.

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Stranger Than Fiction’s Easter Message

The film “Stranger Than Fiction” has a profound Lenten/Easter theme.

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Radical Hope, Love’s Secret Discipline

Two poems for Easter on the power of love over death.

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It’s World Chocolate Day–Treat Yourself!

Today being World Chocolate Day, I quote liberally from Joanne Harris’s novel “Chocolat.”

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Breaking Bread at Emmaus

Levertov says that seeing Jesus’s resurrection as no more than a metaphor is not enough for her. She requires a tangible miracle.

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Blazing Lilies, a Prayer Heard & Answered

Mary Oliver’s “Morning Poem” works as a fitting verse for Easter, with its vision of new creation–which for her occurs every day.

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Reporting on My Lenten Observance

For my Lenten observance, I read “Faerie Queene,” Book I–in which (at one point) Lenten observance gets taken to an extreme.

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