Tag Archives: Faith

Coming Home Like a Lamb to the Fold

By Robin Bates | Published: August 24, 2014

Ruth Pitter’s “Estuary” works as a response to Matthew Arnold’s crisis of faith in “Dover Beach.”

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The Sunset Call to Prayer

By Robin Bates | Published: August 4, 2013

In this final week of Ramadan, Agha Shahid Ali describes the faith of his grandmother.

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Praying to God to Tune Our Hearts

By Robin Bates | Published: June 27, 2010

Spiritual Sunday There are those who think it an impiety to question God. I find more honest, and true, those people who wrestle with their doubts. That’s why I esteem so highly the poetry of George Herbert, the 17th –century Anglican rector. He is constantly searching for God. In some of his poems he struggles […]

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