Tag Archives: Religion

God’s Prayer to Us: Live Kindly, Live

By Robin Bates | Published: November 12, 2017

James Richardson’s poem “Evening Prayer” urges us not to narrowly constrain God within rules but to see God as something greater.

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In Support of School Prayer (with a Twist)

By Robin Bates | Published: February 27, 2015

A Florida bill allows prayers to be read at assemblies but can’t designate a particular religion, offering openings to various sects. Scott Bates provides the school children with some possibilities.

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A Hermit of the Rocks, Wind & Mist

By Robin Bates | Published: May 25, 2014

R. S. Thomas’s powerful poem “Sea-Watching” compares waiting for the Holy Spirit with bird watching.

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In the Beginning Was the Word

By Robin Bates | Published: December 29, 2013

The opening of the Book of John is poetry of the first order.

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Mary Is Called, the Parting Hour Is Come

By Robin Bates | Published: August 18, 2013

Richard Crashaw celebrates the Feast of the Assumption with a feminized Christianity.

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The Transcendental Meaning of Pizza

By Robin Bates | Published: July 26, 2013

Scott Bates describes the sacramental dimensions of devouring pizza.

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i put him all into my arms

By Robin Bates | Published: July 14, 2013

e. e. cummings’ “man who had fallen among thieves” brings the Good Samaritan parable uncomfortably close to home.

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Nature Red in Tooth & Claw? Maybe Not

By Robin Bates | Published: June 23, 2013

Carleton’s Ian Barbour turned to Tennyson in seeking to find connections between science and religion.

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The Deep (Not Scientific) Truth of Genesis

By Robin Bates | Published: June 16, 2013

The Book of Genesis, like poetry, captures truths inaccessible to science.

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