Pursuing what is Real.

Here is a sermon on 1 Corinthians 15:35-44 I wrote for my New Testament course this semester: [Hope by Czeslaw Milosz] Hope is with you when you believe The earth is not a dream but living flesh, That sight, touch, and hearing do not lie, That all things you have ever seen here Are like [...]

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Easter

“Why do you look for the living among the dead? He is not here; he has risen!” Hallelujah.

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Holy Saturday

Easter Eve: Sepulchre -Rowan Williams Constantine knew, of course, just what he wanted: smooth verticals and marble, crushed glass rolled underfoot, room for archangels with their orbs and wounds, space for cool power to stroll, relaxed and heavy-footed Out to the little scented hedges, under a cross that shimmers, silver and rubies, soft shadows lapping [...]

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Good Friday

Speculations on the Subject of Barabbas -Zbigniew Herbert What Became of Barabbas? I ask but no one knows Let off his chain he went into the brightly lit street he could turn to the right go straight turn to the left spin around in a circle crow cheerfully as a rooster He the Emperor of [...]

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Maundy Thursday

Of the glorious Body telling, O my tongue its mysteries sing, And the Blood, all price excelling, Which the world’s eternal King, In a noble womb once dwelling, Shed for the world’s ransoming. From Pange lingua, a hymn of Thomas Aquinas

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Hoping for a warm sun.

Not unrelated to the last post, here is a poem for the week. Hope by Czeslaw Milosz Hope is with you when you believe The earth is not a dream but living flesh, That sight, touch, and hearing do not lie, That all things you have ever seen here Are like a garden looked at [...]

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A prayer for writing.

Lord, grant me the ability to compose a long sentence, whose line, customarily from breath to breath, is a line spanned like a suspension bridge like a rainbow the alpha and omega of the ocean Lord, grant me the strength and agility of those who build sentences long and expansive as a spreading oak tree, [...]

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The snow

The snow has kept us inside for most of the last two days. I’ve been trying to write a paper about Martin Luther, but to no avail it seems. Instead, I’ve been distracting myself by reading a lot of poetry and drinking many hot beverages. My favorite part of all this is how the earth [...]

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