Tag Archives: Jesus

Jesus’s Momentary Desire to Step Back

By Robin Bates | Published: April 1, 2012

Levertov focuses on Jesus’s very human moments of doubt, which serve to emphasize the sublimity of his acceptance of his humiliation and death.

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Plucking Out the Fangs of Hate

By Robin Bates | Published: March 11, 2012

Gibran’s version of Jesus driving the moneychangers from the temple wonders how he pulled it off.

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Religion and Self Love

By Robin Bates | Published: July 17, 2011

In “Gospel Song,” Scott Bates sees self-interest entering into the motivations of even the holiest of men—King David, Daniel, Jesus and Moses.

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And a woman said, “Tell us of Pain”

By Robin Bates | Published: October 6, 2009

Here’s a poem that deals directly with pain, from Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet.  I don’t entirely understand it but I’m intrigued by some of its claims: “And a woman spoke, saying, “Tell us of Pain.” And he said: Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of […]

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