Tag Archives: Jesus

“Is My Son Mad?” Mary Asks

By Robin Bates | Published: May 10, 2015

In Thomas Hardy’s version of Mary, she’s a mother wondering whether her son is mad.

By Robin Bates | Published: August 10, 2014

Mary Oliver gives a powerful reading of Jesus calming the storm.

By Robin Bates | Published: May 4, 2014

Eliot’s reference to the Road to Emmaus story in “The Wasteland” may be sign of hope rather than despair.

By Robin Bates | Published: April 27, 2014

In Levertov’s poem on St. Thomas, she links his doubts with that of the father of the demon-possessed son who comes to Jesus.

By Robin Bates | Published: March 23, 2014

Seen in the light of the Samaritan woman at the well, Chaucer’s Wife of Bath is one of Christ’s messengers.

By Robin Bates | Published: March 16, 2014

Christina Rossetti’s “Who Has Seen the Wind?” is about the Holy Spirit.

By Robin Bates | Published: March 2, 2014

Edwin Muir’s beautiful poem about the transfiguration points the way to pure seeing for all of us.

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By Robin Bates | Published: July 14, 2013

e. e. cummings’ “man who had fallen among thieves” brings the Good Samaritan parable uncomfortably close to home.

By Robin Bates | Published: August 5, 2012

Poet Linda Pastan, like Jesus, sees in bread a metaphor for spiritual transcendence.

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