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I Might Come To Please Him Yet

By Robin Bates | Published: August 26, 2018

Richard Wilbur uses proofreading terms to convey God’s mercy in “The Proof.”

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Morrison: Where America Went Wrong

By Robin Bates | Published: January 3, 2017

Toni Morrison’s 2008 novel “A Mercy” seems to start with a promising vision of America before everything goes wrong. It’s as though she starts with the optimism of the Obama years and then predicts the Trump backlash.

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Immigrants Touched by Grace

By Robin Bates | Published: April 7, 2016

Philip Levine gives us a poem which serves as a reproof to those in the GOP who bash immigrants. We see much needed moments of humanity, important to remember in this election season.

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(Limitless Pity Makes All Large & New)

By Robin Bates | Published: January 25, 2015

Spiritual Sunday Today’s Old Testament reading is the episode in the Book of Jonah after that conflicted man returns from the whale episode and this time does what God has commanded him to do, which is to prophesy to the people of Nineveh about their wickedness. In the Keith Schlegel poem I have chosen, one […]

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