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Tag: jesus

Featured Poetry

Shayana Foroutan – on a trip to rome, my sister’s friend says i seem like i’d hate christianity

February 8, 2026February 8, 2026 Nicholas Trandahl

Shayana Foroutan's gritty and tangible "on a trip to rome, my sister’s friend says i seem like i’d hate christianity" pulls no punches.

Tagged betrayal, blood, Christianity, crucifixion, humanity, jesus, jesus christ, Poem, poet, Poetry, RomeLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Cristina Legarda – Mary

September 5, 2021September 5, 2021 Nicholas Trandahl

Poet Cristina Legarda's tender poem "Mary" is written from the viewpoint of the mother of Jesus Christ, as she looks back with a heart full of love and sadness at moments with her divine child.

Tagged Catholic, Catholicism, Christianity, jesus, loss, love, Mary, miracles, motherhood, parenthood, Poem, Poetry, Sadness1 Comment
Giotto - Nativity
The Bible

Born in the City of David

December 26, 2020December 26, 2020 Vanessa Able

The story of the Nativity is told briefly in two books of the Bible, Matthew and Luke, where it is sparse next to the rich details and imagery of the countless retellings it undergoes each year.

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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

TOP POSTS

  • This is the Life: Annie Dillard Asks, Then What?
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    Bob Rama - Ascetic Aesthetics
  • Wendell Berry - Do Not Be Ashamed
    Wendell Berry - Do Not Be Ashamed
  • Mary Oliver - Teach the Children
    Mary Oliver - Teach the Children
  • Rebecca Solnit's Blue of Distance
    Rebecca Solnit's Blue of Distance
  • Wislawa Szymborska - Conversation with a Stone
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  • Mary Oliver - When Death Comes
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    Wendell Berry - To Know The Dark

- BOOK BITS -

  • Rick Ruben
    “Expanding the Universe” – Rick Rubin on Awareness in Creativity
    What is the role of awareness in creativity and how can we cultivate it to make our world a bigger and clearer place?
  • Thich Nhat Hanh
    The First Door of Liberation: Thich Nhat Hanh’s Vision of Emptiness and Interbeing
    Rather than signifying a lack or a void, Thich Nhat Hanh took emptiness to be a state of inextricable and fundamental interconnectedness.
  • Mike Travisano – Bob’s Tattoos
    A short story on the power of three simple words and how much they can mean and embody.
  • Shunryu Suzuki
    Sharing the Feeling: Zen Teacher Shunryu Suzuki on Becoming Ourselves
    The importance of keeping an empty mind for savoring the present and expressing ourselves in our most authentic way.
  • Ray Bradbury
    Running After Loves – Ray Bradbury on Fostering Hunger in Writing
    Finding the truth of our authentic passions is the key to forming the foundations of a writing practice


- POETRY-

  • Bob Rama – Ascetic Aesthetics
    Translator and poet Bob Rama shines a little candlelight on ascetic renunciation in his pleasingly-titled poem "Ascetic Aesthetics".
  • Emily Tong – Girlhood Ghazal
    Using the ancient poetic form of the ghazal, Asian-American poet Emily Tong searches for home in her "Girlhood Ghazal".
  • A Year of Kō: 15th Sekki
    15th Sekki poems by SHAOMEI YU, COLEMAN DAVIS AND NADINE LEITSO
  • Riley Danvers – [Soma]tic
    Oregon poet Riley Danvers reveals what it means to be human in a painful state of flux in her avant-garde [Soma]tic.
  • Phach Huynh – Traces
    Ho Chi Minh City poet Phach Huynh reveals all the stories and presences which are held in the lonely silences with his masterful "Traces".
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