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Featured Poetry

Will Simescu – Agrapha

January 15, 2023January 13, 2023 Nicholas Trandahl

Will Simescu's "Agrapha" reveals a search for holiness, contrasting the gritty details of reality with imagery from the life of Christ.

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Featured Poetry

Shanley McConnell – Mary sings a lullaby to her baby God

June 19, 2022June 17, 2022 Nicholas Trandahl

Gently illuminating a story long important to civilization, poet Shanley McConnell grants readers a glimpse of Mary and the birth of her son.

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Thomas Merton
Book Bits

Rooting Firmly Into Life – Thomas Merton on Accepting Reality as It Is

May 10, 2021May 13, 2021 Vanessa Able

Thomas Merton underscores the danger of over-identifying with notions and abstractions rather than with the flesh and bones reality of our own lives.

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Huston Smith
Book Bits

The God of Ideas

August 31, 2020August 31, 2020 Vanessa Able

Huston Smith on how his intellect and love of ideas brought him into a closer relationship with God, in an activity known as jnana, the Indian form of yoga centered around knowledge.

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