When I use Thomas’s poems in courses and retreats on spiritual poetry, participants are drawn to his compelling images for the seeking that is their own form of religious experience. They’re moved too ...

Praise God in luminescence!Praise for the semi-iridescence of a kingfisher wingPraise for viridescencePraise for the ...

The book contains poems written about God (or as if they came to us from God) from Christian mystics (e.g. Catherine of Sienna, Teresa of Avila, John of the Cross, St. Francis Assisi, Meister ...

One can detect in the poems of this early period Eliot’s increasing revulsion as he contemplated life at its various levels without God and without hope. Spiritual Affirmation ...

In his new anthology, Joy: 100 Poems, the writer Christian Wiman takes readers through the ostensible ordinariness of life and reveals the extraordinary. “We ate, and talked, and went to bed ...

Christian Wiman's new essay collection, My Bright Abyss, explores his ideas about faith and life during a time of intense crisis — in Wiman's case, a rare and painful cancer. Reviewer Walton ...

Poet and professor of divinity Christian Wiman says that there are all kinds of poems he’s turned to during this pandemic. He especially enjoys poems that are joyful and have helped him perceive the ...

Like humanity’s deepest emotions and mere inklings of God, a poem is not something that can be ironed out or decisively calculated. Poetry’s evocations and evasions fit particularly well with ...

The poems, Carter said, help him to “understand God better, seeking a closer relationship and knowing what he has for me in my life.” He said getting published has been an education.

The fellowship - which starts next fall - allows Kouma to research more Christian martyrs and write poetry.