In “The Secret Commonwealth,” Pullman anticipates ICE’s bullying tactics.
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No, A.I. Will Not Change How We Read Lit
Will A.I. change how people read lit, as this New Yorker article claims? Uh, no.
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I Am the Bread of Life
Jesus declared that he was “the bread of life.” These poems explore the metaphor.
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Philip Pullman’s Unorthodox Afterlife
In “Amber Spyglass,” Pullman rebels against orthodox versions of the afterlife and creates his own.
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The Poetry of Holy Bread
I share a church talk on “The Poetry of Bread” where I shared poems by Levertov, Ungar, Neruda, Underhill, and others.
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Pullman and White Christian Nationalists
In “The Secret Commonwealth” Pullmans description of the Magisterium sounds a lot like White Christian Nationalism.
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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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Do Not Stand by My Grave and Weep
As Slovenes this past week visited the graves of those who have passed on, I thought of Frye’s poem “Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep.”
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