Tag Archives: Malcolm Guite

Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love

Few poems better capture for me that vision of God’s heaven on earth than Blake’s “The Divine Image.”

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This Altar the Earth Herself Has Given

Guite traces an old oaken altar back to the tree out of which it was made, which also blessed the elements.

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He Took Us with Him to the Heart of Things

Poet’s writing about the Ascension often focus on our tangled lives.

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When Shepherds Fail Their Flocks

The Bible has multiple passages about shepherds who fail their sheep/ congregations. These two poems by Guite and Moss do the same.

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St. Peter, Master of Misunderstanding

Malcolm Guite captures the beauty of St. Peter’s impulsive behavior.

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The Trinity: Beyond, Beside Us, and Within

Maybe, to understand the Trinity, we need poets like Malcolm Guite.

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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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Lifting for a Little While the Veil

Micah’s instructions and Jesus’s “Sermon on the Mount” function themselves as poems. Guite has his own poem about Jesus’s sermon.

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Jesus as Refugee

Two poems that focus on Jesus as a refugee: Scott Bates’s “Witness” and Malcolm Guite’s “Refugee.”

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