Lucille Clifton celebrates Jesus’s Lazarus miracle by pointing to the resilience of the African diaspora.
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Tag Archives: Lent
How Did This Dust Learn to Sing?
Two Ash Wednesday poems, by Malcolm Guite and Julia Bates, wonder at the mystery of the creation that arises from dust.
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A Mary Oliver Poem for Lent
Mary Oliver’s “Wild Geese” works as a Lenten poem but departs from medieval notions of what Lent involves.
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African-American Lit for Lent
In which I set forth this year’s Lenten discipline: reading novels by African American authors.
It’s World Chocolate Day–Treat Yourself!
Today being World Chocolate Day, I quote liberally from Joanne Harris’s novel “Chocolat.”
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On Lent, Dust, and His Dark Materials
In Practical Christianity, Jane Shaw uses Pullman’s “His Dark Materials” to discuss how to grapple with life and sin.
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Reading Proust as Lenten Observance
For Lent this year, I am taking on Proust’s “In Search of Lost Time.” I hope to gain new insight into the nature of fictional engagement.
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Ash Wednesday: Teach Us to Sit Still
In “Ash Wednesday,” T.S. Eliot sees despair as the starting point of faith.
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