In this poem, Mark Jarman shows how the Last Supper was just like any other meal–until it wasn’t.
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No One Understood the Final Meal
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Transfiguration’s Promise and Its Cost
In Mark Jarman’s version of the transfiguration, Jesus initially resists the call and it is through his resistance that he is transfigured.
Walking on Life’s Turbulence
Mark Jarman has a simple but powerful poem about Jesus walking on the water.
The Intrusion of an Overwhelming Joy
Advent is a time for waiting and listening for a message from God. Jarman describes having once experienced it and feeling driven to find it again.
Hockey, Canada’s Great Romance
Sidney Crosby Sports Saturday Jason Blake, a faculty member at the University of Ljubljana English Department, has just written a book on Canadian Hockey Literature (University of Toronto Press, 2010). The book explores five national themes addressed by hockey literature: nationhood, the hockey dream, violence, national identity, and family. I met Jason (who is Canadian) […]
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