A priest has called out the behaviour of some "entitled" parishioners by writing a poem in his final newsletter to the congregation as a "parting gift".

In the new book Queer & Christian, author and pastor Brandan Robertson makes the case for reclaiming the bible, faith and the ...

The UK's leading MP has launched a book of poetry drawing on Mass readings - pledging to give half the proceeds to Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN).Sir Edward Leigh, the 'Father of the ...

The Akathist Hymn, which is chanted on the first five Fridays of Great Lent in the Eastern Orthodox Church (the first four in parts and the fifth in its entirety), is a profound devotional poem ...

Poems for a difficult life of faith Like Paul, Spencer Reece has journeyed to see what he would suffer as a servant of Christ.

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.

Owls housed in the church steeple, crouched on the clock hands at night: then daybreak, the broom plants struggling awake, whipped this way and that in the crusted snow. The dogs fall back, an echo ...

Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote some of the most famous poems in English literature. Yet few readers today know there is a distinctly spiritual worldview permeating his work.

The American poet Yvor Winters (1900–1968) considered “Church Monuments,” by George Herbert (1593–1633), to be not only Herbert’s finest poem, but one of the greatest poems in the English language.

Bishop Ken's Christian year; or, Hymns and poems for the holy days and festivals of the church by Ken, Thomas, 1637-1711 Publication date 1868 Topics Church year, Religious poetry, English, Hymns, ...