I feared that in For Lovers of God Everywhere: Poems of the Christian Mystics, I would encounter a thin selection of poets from the traditional verse cisterns, and I was irritated ahead of schedule ...

But we can pay tribute to the extraordinary Christian poetry that he left us. It is not a cozy, pious poetry. Thomas is often called the “poet of the hidden God.” Poem after poem finds him kneeling in ...

A devout Christian, Wiman views his faith and his reignited relationship to God as an active practice. “The way I experience God is in relationship, in activity, in making art, in relating with people ...

Christian Wiman says he's no longer afraid of dying. "When death hangs over you for a while, you start to forget about it," he says. Wiman's new book is Zero at the Bone.

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 ...

Every Riven Thing: Poems Christian Wiman Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 112 pages, $24 “Come, ye philosophers who cry ‘All’s well,’ / And contemplate this ruin of a world,” wrote the French ...

Eliot’s work, both poetry and prose, although the poetry alone can be considered here, has a peculiar significance for the Christian, whether he be theologian, preacher, or layman, for Eliot has ...

But where the poem, and even more often the prose, frames this emotion within a religious scaffold, it is almost always toward a monotheistic, and Christian, God. The poems in this collection hail ...

Reading God’s Word like a Poem, Not an Instruction Manual Interview by Jessica Hooten Wilson The Bible teaches us, says Matthew Mullins, but its method of teaching always entails more than ...

Christian Wiman's new essay collection, My Bright Abyss, ... In her poem, "God Works in a Mysterious Way," Brooks calls on God to "Step forth in splendor, mortify our wolves, ...

Christian Wiman: I have found it a relief to not be talking about God and found it helpful to take that word out of circulation for a bit. I almost feel like it would be helpful for us as a culture if ...