This chapter briefly examines one central element in Christian belief — the resurrection of Jesus Christ, considering some of the difficulties involved in that belief in the context of a number of literary and poetic engagements with it. It is a practical exercise, considering literature inspired ...
The Resurrection Issue, Part II highlights the work of eight foremothers, bringing back into print the work of women poets from the DC region who have passed away. This is the second part in a series that honors poets whose work deserves a wider readership, but whose poems were previously ...
Auntie Raylene, an accomplished chanter and dancer, told us about the necessity of remembering and honoring where we come from….During the question-and-answer session, a worried West African immigrant brother asked her, “But…what if our parents and grandparents refuse to tell us anything? The...
As well as the Bible, Hartnett is also influenced here by the writings of John Steinbeck and his iconic descriptions of the Great Depression inThe Grapes of Wrathas well as the writing of Sean O’Casey and Brendan Behan who wrote about the tenements in Dublin and the gradual movement of peo...
About the contributors Author Joshua Bennett Dr. Joshua Bennett is the author of The Sobbing Sc… Reviews Bennett captures the beauty of what really matters in life - the memories, youth sports, family traditions and little moments that many of us take for granted ... [Owed] couldn't have...
Objects of Desire: Rodrigo Moreno on “The Delinquents” ByJordan Cronk From the Vision to the Nail in the Coffin, and the Resurrection: Dimitris Athiridis on “exergue – on documenta 14” ByAntoine Thirion Last of the Independents: A Roundtable on “Charley Varrick” with Veronika Franz...
I had the opportunity to preach in my church a few weeks ago, and again in our satellite church today (I expanded and improved it a little in the meantime) This is the final version: First there was message for children before they went to Sunday School, just after a song about letting...
Then took the other,as just as fair3, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear4; Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same, And both that morning equally lay In leaves5 no step had trodden black. Oh,I kept the first ...
It was Me, this morning, in your living room, when you were grumbling about the dirty bathroom and your daughter was singing, head tilted toward Me, face up against the veil, in my presence, kneeling on holy ground. It was Me.
about throwing them up. I went to late night open mics, wisecracking through the jeers and booing until audiences got used to me. I took their abuse, gave it right back. I wore down the drunks and soon they were laughing, even snorting sometimes. ...