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Featured Poetry

Ryan Diaz – Saint Hubert and the Deer

January 30, 2022January 29, 2022 Nicholas Trandahl

Ryan Diaz's poem, St. Hubert and the Deer, offers readers a glimpse at the crucial moment in the life of Saint Hubert--the precipice of the choice between slaughter and mercy.

Tagged Christian philosophy, Christianity, God, guilt, innocence, nature, Poem, poet, Poetry, remorse, Saint, saintsLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Rooja Mohassessy – Intoxicated by Verses

January 23, 2022January 22, 2022 Nicholas Trandahl

Iranian-born poet Rooja Mohassessy presents readers a work of luscious language, devotion, wonder, faith, and also disillusionment.

Tagged disillusion, God, illumination, Islam, loss, love, Poem, poet, Poetry, prayer, UnderstandingLeave a comment
Bayou
Way-Seeking Mind

Gully and Bayou

January 18, 2022January 25, 2022 Vanessa Able

BY NEIL ELLIS ORTS This farm boy wandered the acres of woods and explored the gully. I sat under the cedar that grew on a high bank, roots exposed, waiting for the right number of rains to let go.

Tagged Awakening, biography, childhood, God, home, memory, youthLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Spence Pfleiderer – A Simple Morning Prayer

January 16, 2022January 16, 2022 Nicholas Trandahl

The aptly-named A Simple Morning Prayer pleads for understanding and love, for connection and illumination in a handful of terse lines. This piece is evidence that a poem need not be complex or long-winded to be a thing of authentic beauty and power.

Tagged connection, God, illumination, love, morning, Poem, poet, Poetry, prayer, Simplicity, Understanding, ZenLeave a comment
Martin Buber
Book Bits

The Glimpse of Eternity – Martin Buber and Our Relationship With The Divine

December 3, 2021December 3, 2021 Vanessa Able

One of the central themes of the work of the Jewish mystical philosopher Martin Buber was the question of understanding our relation to God.

Tagged existentialism, Experience, God, jewish philosophy, Judaism, mysticism, relationship, separationLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Jenna Wysong Filbrun – Church

September 26, 2021September 24, 2021 Nicholas Trandahl

Jenna Wysong Filbrun's Church is an ode to nature, life, and belonging in a time of spiritual upheaval, an ode to the wilderness, which was humanity's first place of worship.

Tagged belonging, church, divine, divinity, God, life, nature, Poem, Poetry, Spirituality, wildernessLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Brian Yapko – My Hunger for You

August 29, 2021August 27, 2021 Nicholas Trandahl

With his poem My Hunger for You, Brian Yapko presents a desperate and generally unsuccessful search for God.

Tagged Advice, divine, failure, God, humility, nature, Poem, Poetry, searching, transformationLeave a 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
Paul Tillich
Book Bits

On the Anxiety of Non-Being

December 14, 2020December 14, 2020 Vanessa Able

Theologian Paul Tillich on the interplay of anxiety and fear and how they feed in to one another at the very foundation of the human mind.

Tagged Anxiety, Death, Emptiness, existence, Fear, God, non-being, nothingness, theology, unknown2 Comments
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.

Tagged bhakti, biography, Christ, Four Yogas, God, Hinduism, ideas, intellect, jnana, Karma, raja, thoughtLeave a comment

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