Poet Jericho Brown writes in a prophetic tradition, seeking to put us in touch with the numinous.
Tag Archives: Jeremiah
Touched by a Presence with No Hands
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The Universe in a Clay Jug
At one point Jeremiah compares to God to a potter who can either make or destroy Israel. Novelist A.S. Byatt and poet Kabir both have creative works about pots.
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Hearing the Celestial Voices
Two shepherd poems to mark the shepherd references in today’s lectionary.
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Pots Turned on the Wheel of Life
Jeremiah imagines God as a destructive potter. For Longfellow, the potter is inscrutable destiny.
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See, This Coal Has Touched Your Lips
The image of God touching the lips of Isaiah and Jeremiah shows up in C.S. Lewis’s “Voyage of the Dawn Treader.”
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