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i put him all into my arms
e. e. cummings’ “man who had fallen among thieves” brings the Good Samaritan parable uncomfortably close to home.
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The Deep (Not Scientific) Truth of Genesis
The Book of Genesis, like poetry, captures truths inaccessible to science.
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Poetry Needed to Understand Trinity
John Kennedy advocated poetry to avoid arrogance, which is good advice when it comes to understanding the Trinity.
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Finding Peace along with a Lost Goat
Poet Yehudi Amichai gives us a powerful poem about losing our way and being found.
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Pope Retires but Keeps Perks? Hmm
Some of Pope Benedict’s retirement demands sound like King Lear’s.
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Half in Love with Easeful Death
In his haunting “Ode to a Nightingale,” Keats imagines himself as a homesick Ruth standing “amid the alien corn.”
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Becoming Intimate with God
As George Herbert and Fiona Sampson make clear, partaking in the eucharist feat is our way of becoming intimate with God.
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