Poet Jeanne Walker riffs off the opening passage of the Book of John to compare poetic creation to the coming of new truth.
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God’s Word, the Ultimate Poetry
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Curling Up with a Good Book
This Scott Bates is a testimony to the solitary joy of reading.
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Emily Dickinson’s “Smart Misery” of Doubt
Emily Dickinson struggled with religious doubt all of her life. Because she desperately wanted to belief, some of her poems show her faith being tested.
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Stop and Smell Mary’s Perfume
The scene in John where Mary anoints Jesus’s feet with a costly perfume, Judas, who chastises her for wastefulness, reminds me of those earnest activists who can’t stop and smell the perfume. D. H. Lawrence explores a similar theme in “The Man Who Died.”
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What in Me Is Dark Illumine
An epiphany is the moment when something divine enters the human realm. During the Epiphany season, Christians celebrate such moments. In the famous opening of “Paradise Lost,” Milton notes that the Holy Spirit is his muse and connects his own inspiration with a number of famous visitations of the Holy Spirit throughout Biblical history.
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A Guest Worthy To Be Here
Jesus learned to accept a Canaanite woman at his table and George Herbert learns that he belongs at that table. We can use them as models as we face refugees and immigrants.
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Look Down on Us Who Journey by Night
Alfred Noyes’s “Night Journey” looks to God to find hope in the night.
“Is My Son Mad?” Mary Asks
In Thomas Hardy’s version of Mary, she’s a mother wondering whether her son is mad.
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Something Different Crosses the Threshold
Mary Oliver gives a powerful reading of Jesus calming the storm.
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