Two shepherd poems to mark the shepherd references in today’s lectionary.
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Hearing the Celestial Voices
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A Cold Coming We Had of It
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Epiphany: Seeking Our Heart’s Desire
In “Epiphany,” poet Dudley Delffs sees the star as our heart’s desire.
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The Epiphany from a Camel’s Point of View
In a very engaging poem, Scott Bates tells the story of the Epiphany from the point of view of the came of one of the Wise Men.
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Advent and Horror at the Void
Donald Hall’s “Advent” captures the darkness of the season, linking death with birth.
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The Journey towards Renewal
Today is the Christian Feast of the Epiphany, the day celebrating the three wise men from the east visiting the infant Jesus with gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh. Symbolically, this captures the world’s old wisdom systems acknowledging the new dispensation of love and renewal represented by God entering the world and taking human form, […]
