Tag Archives: Spirituality

How to Keep Beauty from Vanishing Away

By Robin Bates | Published: March 1, 2015

Gerard Manley Hopkins’s “The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo” works as a Lenten meditation on the beauty of God’s grace.

By Robin Bates | Published: September 21, 2014

Marge Piercy poem about gardens functions as a reflection upon how we spend out time and work. It’s appropriate, in other words, for Rosh Hashanah.

By Robin Bates | Published: September 7, 2014

C. S. Lewis has a poem that addresses our frustrations that God isn’t listening to our prayers.

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By Robin Bates | Published: May 4, 2014

Eliot’s reference to the Road to Emmaus story in “The Wasteland” may be sign of hope rather than despair.

By Robin Bates | Published: April 27, 2014

In Levertov’s poem on St. Thomas, she links his doubts with that of the father of the demon-possessed son who comes to Jesus.

By Robin Bates | Published: April 18, 2014

Dry rocks have functioned as images of spiritual desolation throughout the history of Good Friday poetry.

By Robin Bates | Published: April 13, 2014

“Akiba” is a powerful Passover poem by Muriel Rukeyser that links the flight from Egypt to other liberation struggles.

By Robin Bates | Published: March 30, 2014

A Salman Rushdie short story and a David Whyte poem lead to insights into the story of Jesus and the blind man.

By Robin Bates | Published: February 2, 2014

If the “Chronicles of Narnia” are read narrowly as Christian propaganda, then they suffer and so does Christianity.