Tag Archives: Gerard Manley Hopkins

As Kingfishers Catch Fire

By Robin Bates | Published: October 13, 2013

Gerard Manley Hopkins tells us how to access the god within ourselves.

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Why Literary Suffering Made Plato Nervous

By Robin Bates | Published: February 5, 2013

Plato worried that Greek tragedy causes us to act irrationally.

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A Harvest Love Poem to God

By Robin Bates | Published: October 24, 2010

Spiritual Sunday Here is a harvest poem that moves quickly from an actual harvest (in the first line) to a heavenly one. The clouds are like sacks of grain, their meal drifting across the skies, and we can gaze upward and glean them with our eyes. As Gerald Manley Hopkins sees it, God reveals himself […]

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Christian Nazis Seeking to Be Cleansed

By Robin Bates | Published: August 23, 2010

I learned this past summer how, following the Holocaust, a number of former Nazis were able to embrace Christianity without their churches expecting them to repent. It sounds as though some of these men were able to feel cleansed of their sins without doing much in the way of serious soul searching. The issue raises […]

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The Grandeur of God

By Robin Bates | Published: June 13, 2010

Spiritual Sunday Julia and I have been in Davis, California seeing our son this past week (he is a graduate student in English at the university there) and took the occasion to visit Big Basin Redwoods State Park.  As I walked through the silence of the forest and gazed up in awe at the mammoth […]

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