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Featured Poetry

Joanne Alfano – Hope

September 24, 2023September 21, 2023 Nicholas Trandahl

Positively radiant, Joanne Alfano's "Hope" is a poem that crashes through darkness with its opening lines like a clarion call.

Tagged celebration, faith, Faith and practice, journey, Poem, poet, Poetry, religion, seeking, SpiritualityLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Brandon James O’Neil – City Adhan

August 28, 2022September 1, 2022 Nicholas Trandahl

Hinged on the image of Muslim cab driver finding a moment of serenity in communion with God in the chaos of New York City, Brandon James O'Neil's "City Adhan" offers readers that same serenity.

Tagged faith, God, New York City, Poem, poet, Poetry, prayer, religion, Spirituality, urban lifeLeave a comment
Albert Einstein
Book Bits

The Most Beautiful Thing We Can Experience Is The Mysterious: Albert Einstein’s Living Philosophy

September 15, 2021September 15, 2021 Vanessa Able

Albert Einstein lays out his living philosophy and the set of ideals that he held in his personal, spiritual and political life.

Tagged Advice, meaning, mystery, philosophy, purpose, religion, science, wonderLeave a comment
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
Pamela Wax
Featured Poetry

Pamela Wax – Capricorn Loses His Star

July 18, 2021July 21, 2021 Nicholas Trandahl

Poet and rabbi Pamela Wax's poem touches upon the themes of sacrifice, tragedy, regret, and atonement.

Tagged astrology, atonement, capricorn, goats, Judaism, regret, religion, repentance, sacrifice, tragedy1 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
Way-Seeking Mind

Leaving

April 8, 2021April 7, 2021 Vanessa Able

BY MICHELLE NICHOLAYSEN When I left the Seventh-day Adventists, I thought I could keep the love and forget the wrath.

Tagged childhood, Christianity, departure, healing, leaving, religion, religious history, seventh day adventists1 Comment
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
Mark Twain
Book Bits

“You Can’t Pray a Lie” – Mark Twain’s Huck Finn

August 7, 2020August 7, 2020 Vanessa Able

Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn suggests that evil is not something manifested by wicked people, rather it perpetuates with the conventions that we absorb from childhood.

Tagged controversy, morality, race, religion, slavery, truth1 Comment

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