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Kevin James
Featured Poetry

Kevin James – Just for You

August 1, 2021August 23, 2021 Nicholas Trandahl

Kevin James' "Just for You", explores the experience of immanence, a theological doctrine stating that the divine presence is present and active in our material world as opposed to just in a metaphysical or ethereal realm.

Tagged breath, divine, existence, faith, immanence, material world, Poetry, power, religion, theology, wonder2 Comments
Dane Lyn
Featured Poetry

Dane Lyn – holy musings at the Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 2019

July 25, 2021July 25, 2021 Nicholas Trandahl

Dane Lyn's "holy musings at the Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 2019" is a brilliant work of ekphrastic poetry, inspired by a religious painting by an unknown artist, titled "The Great Harlot of Babylon".

Tagged art, artwork, ekphrastic, faith, hypocrisy, Judgement, misogyny, painting, religion, religious art, Women1 Comment
Featured Poetry

Angelic Armendariz – Nonbeliever

July 8, 2021 Nicholas Trandahl

Angelic Armendariz, with her poem "Nonbeliever", gives readers a brief but poignant piece with three distinct stages in questioning faith, spirituality, and God.

Tagged Belief, Believer, faith, Faith and practice, God, growth, loss, religion, Spiritual Practice, Spirituality, traumaLeave a comment
Lenora Steele
Featured Poetry

Lenora Steele – From the Patient Lounge, Before the Bypass

May 16, 2021May 12, 2021 Vanessa Able

Reflecting on the days between a heart attack and a bypass, the scene outside the hospital on a cold March day struck Lenora Steele as the starkest moment.

Tagged faith, heart attack, hospital, science, sickness, surgery2 Comments
Lori Rottenberg
Featured Poetry

Lori Rottenberg – Heresy

March 7, 2021March 6, 2021 Vanessa Able

Lori Rottenberg wrote her poem, Heresy, when her children were young and she was a stay-at-home mom.

Tagged Children, faith, marriage, parenting, partnership, Relationships, religionLeave a comment
Mary Oliver
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Mary Oliver – Wild Geese

December 3, 2020December 3, 2020 Vanessa Able

Wild Geese runs like an exhalation, beginning with a lifting of the weight of religious culpability - in the prairies and the deep trees, there is no onus to be good nor to string oneself out in repentance.

Tagged despair, faith, Inspiration, Kindness, Loneliness, nature, Poetry, salvation, self-love, transcendence2 Comments
Bathtub Bubbles
Way-Seeking Mind

The Rose-Pink Porcelain Bathtub

October 29, 2020October 29, 2020 Vanessa Able

BY CHARLENE MOSKAL At around age seven I'd lie in tepid water in the rose-pink porcelain bathtub. I would look down the skinny length of me, close my eyes, imagine I was Jesus.

Tagged baptism, Bathtub, childhood, faith, heroes, hope, jesus, miraclesLeave a comment
Boshan
Book Bits, Chinese Texts

Boshan and Fostering Great Doubt

September 14, 2020September 14, 2020 Vanessa Able

Doubt is a key incentive of the spiritual journey, and, as per the old adage 'Great doubt, great awakening', it is foundational to the enquiry of Zen.

Tagged Chinese Zen, doubt, faith, intellect, Meditation, supression, truthLeave a comment
Simone Weil
Book Bits

Simone Weil – The Infinite in an Instant

May 1, 2020May 1, 2020 Vanessa Able

Simone Weil lauds 'unmixed attention', which she likens to prayer, and reflects on the quality of attention, expressed as 'patience, effort and method' to 'understand with our whole self the truths which are evident.'

Tagged activism, attention, effort, faith, infinite, love, patience, prayer, religion, truth, will2 Comments
Nicholas Trandahl
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Nicholas Trandahl – The Chapel

April 26, 2020December 29, 2020 Vanessa Able

In his poem, The Chapel, Nicholas Trandahl sets out what he looks for when it comes to faith and spirituality. A lifelong seeker of truth and inner peace, he imagines a fictional space deep in the heart of the wilderness, where pilgrims and seekers can finally rest after their journeys.

Tagged 2020, chapel, divine, faith, forest, God, journey, nature, pilgrims, salvation, Spirituality, wilderness3 Comments

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