In his Christmas Oratorio “For the Time Being,” Auden captures the power of the season of Epiphany.
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Tag Archives: Epiphany
The Call To Step into That River
Luke, Milton and Malcolm Guite are all enthralled with the moment when Jesus, at the moment of his baptism, fully realizes that he–and all of us–are God’s belovèd and delight.
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The Stable Is Our Heart
L’Engle’s “Into the Darkest Hour” promises hope when everything is falling apart.
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Epiphany: Seeking Our Heart’s Desire
In “Epiphany,” poet Dudley Delffs sees the star as our heart’s desire.
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Fable of the Third Christmas Camel
In this wonderful Epiphany fable by my father, a camel leaves the three magi to live the live envisioned in what they found in Bethlehem.
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A Light on the Darkling Road
George McKay Brown’s “Calendar of Kings” captures the gift of God in the world by dwelling on small moments.
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The Star Began Its Singing
A simple but powerful Epiphany poem by Scottish poet George Mackay Brown.
Epiphany: A Baby’s Cry, a Big Bang
Spiritual Sunday I love this Bruce Monroe Robison poem that updates the story of the Wise Men, imagining them acquainted with astrophysics and the Big Bang theory. As he sees it, Jesus’s infant cry also created a new universe, “the first whisper in the still tissue of space.” Matthew 2: Magi We have seen his […]
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A Pause in Time and the Soul’s Awareness
John Thorkild Ellison has two Epiphany poems in which the spirit enters when the poet has all but given up hope.