Tag Archives: Spirituality

He Will Come Like Crying in the Night

By Robin Bates | Published: December 1, 2013

Christmas hope does not come without deep struggle at the darkest time of the year.

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Layla Dancing in a Globe of Light

By Robin Bates | Published: November 24, 2013

Some of the great religious poetry turns to sexual imagery to capture the ecstatic union with the divine.

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Poetry – A Finite Image of Infinity

By Robin Bates | Published: November 17, 2013

Frithjof Schuon explores how poetry echoes the divine.

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We All Are Falling

By Robin Bates | Published: October 27, 2013

A spiritual poem by Rilke about falling leaves.

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Ballad of a Nun, a Bordello, and Mary

By Robin Bates | Published: September 8, 2013

Scott Bates’ “Ballad of Thoughtful Love” retells a medieval fable about a nun-turned-whore who is saved by the Virgin Mary.

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What Liberty a Loosened Spirit Brings

By Robin Bates | Published: June 30, 2013

Although she didn’t go to church, Emily Dickinson was spiritually uplifted by reading the Bible.

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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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Your One Wild and Precious Life

By Robin Bates | Published: June 9, 2013

Mary Oliver’s celebration of summer is a prayer operates as a prayer of gratitude.

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A Breathing Palace of Leaves

By Robin Bates | Published: March 31, 2013

Many of Mary Oliver’s nature poems enact a version of the crucifixion and resurrection.

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