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Poems for a difficult life of faith Like Paul, Spencer Reece has journeyed to see what he would suffer as a servant of Christ.
The pleasures of good poems This year, I've read the poetry of Mark Jarman, Tess Taylor, and Nicole Sealey with gratitude.
Eliot moves from these earlier “Christian” poems in the “third voice” to a group of poems of the highest order of contemplative and philosophical verse.
Did Maya Angelou Write a Poem Titled, 'I Am a Christian'? The poem has been anthologized in several books, including "Chicken Soup for the Christian Family Soul," and circulated online with ...
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 ...
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 ...
First Congregational Church in Falmouth will present John Dulina, organist and music director, who will play the church’s ...
Nearly everyone I grew up with in my childhood church in Lincoln, Nebraska, is no longer Christian. That’s not unusual. Forty million Americans have stopped attending church in the past 25 years ...
“I don’t really believe in Collected Poems,” the American poet and critic Christian Wiman has said. “They’re almost always bad.” Wiman has long believed that real poetry is rare. As ...
The fellowship - which starts next fall - allows Kouma to research more Christian martyrs and write poetry.