Toni Morrison expands St. Paul’s vision of love to include erotic love.
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Tag Archives: love
Love, a Bulwark against Desolation
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How Do You Like Love? All Ways
Shakespeare’s “As You Like It” is the perfect play for Valentine’s Day.
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But the Greatest of These Is Love
First Corinthians 13 may be St. Paul’s greatest poem.
Dear Frustrated in Love: Read a Classic
Literature is better than any self help book for relationship guidance.
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Come, My Light, My Feast, My Strength
In “The Call,” George Herbert opens himself to God’s love with a confidence not found in many of his poems.
Summer in the Glen
Scott Bates tells us that when we give ourselves over to the universe of which we are a part, then we escape the entrapment of self.
This Is the Golden Morning of Love
A wedding poem seems appropriate for June. Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s lovely “Marriage Morning” draws me, maybe because it captures some of the anxieties of the wedding day and not just the joys.
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