Tag Archives: John Greenleaf Whittier

Still Relevant? Whittier’s Suffering Quakers

By Robin Bates | Published: July 8, 2024

Whittier’s poem “The Women Went from Dover foreshadows MAGA’s war on women.

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“Spare Your Country’s Flag,” She Said

By Robin Bates | Published: June 2, 2024

With the recent furor over the Alitos’ insurrectionist flags, it’s worth revisiting Whittier’s poem “Barbara Frietchie,” also about a flag.

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How Weigh the Cost of the War Dead?

By Robin Bates | Published: May 29, 2022

In “The Watchers,” Whittier honors the fallen while seeing the necessity of war to bring about freedom.

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Flag of Freedom, Union of Light and Law

By Robin Bates | Published: January 13, 2021

Along with their violence, Capitol Hill insurrectionists desecrated the American flag in multiple ways. Whittier reminds us what the flag really means.

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One Faith, One Love, One Hope Restore

By Robin Bates | Published: October 10, 2020

Political divided Christian groups in America would do well to read John Greenleaf Whittier’s “Unity.”

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