Tag Archives: Religion

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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Poetry Needed to Understand Trinity

By Robin Bates | Published: June 2, 2013

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

By Robin Bates | Published: April 21, 2013

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

By Robin Bates | Published: March 5, 2013

Some of Pope Benedict’s retirement demands sound like King Lear’s.

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Half in Love with Easeful Death

By Robin Bates | Published: November 11, 2012

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

By Robin Bates | Published: October 7, 2012

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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