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The Dream-bent Farmer: Poetry
‘What is this world but a seed of desire some dream-bent farmer sowed in a field waiting for the end of winter, waiting to be getting on with the business of timothy and clover?’ —Abigail Carroll, ‘Spring Forward’ God is a dream-bent farmer sowing the seed of desire. Time leaves us this task. It is… →
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Squinting Through This Latent, Bleak Obscurity with Scott Cairns
“Just now, we squint to see the Image through this latent, bleak obscurity. One day, we’ll see the Image— as Himself—gleaming from each face. Just now, I puzzle through a range of incoherencies; but on that day, the scattered fragments will cohere.” If you don’t recognize 1 Corinthians 13 in this translation, perhaps that good. … →
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Inside Something: A Poem for a Rainy Day
The tea cozy cover of a sunk-in rain. The vast, intimidating sky shielded by dark clouds. The low rumble of thunder. The wisdom of the rain speaking gently diligently: “You are inside something. You are not without love or borders. All your anxious wonderings are contained within this sphere. Settle yourself. Learn the lesson… →
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Sunset in Archer County – A Poem
If coyotes howl at sunset why do we sit in silence? Staring at our screens or dumbfounded by our electrified darlings we let the miracle pass unnoticed day after night after day. That a nuclear furnace on which all life depends some millions of miles beyond us is passing once more out of sight plunging… →
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Spelunking: The Journey of Prayer
In here is a cavern vast and brilliant Where old songs echo off ancient walls and fresh water drips down to do its long work of creation. In here the illusion of sterility can confound you as if no life stirs, no light illumines, no generative communion draws souls to one. But in here vistas… →
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To Know the Country Whole – A Definition in Poem
I want to know the country whole. The country: the country with its upturned plains and teeming back bays the country carved, sliced, and served in red and blue the country broken the country of my birth and of exile’s long longings the country promised and made new along with heaven I want to know… →
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“Beauty was all the answer they had”–When Theologians Soar
Sometimes, and all too rarely, a theologian can soar in writing. I have been working my way, very slowly, through Katherine Sonderegger’s Systematic Theology: Volume I, The Doctrine of God, and savoring passages like this one: This is what we mean by compatibilism in theology. The One Light that enlightens all creatures is truly here, truly shining… →
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The Myth of the Cosmic Skybox
It has finally happened. I seriously had the thought that I would not attend an event just because I knew that, two days later, I would receive the dreaded email evaluation. “It will only take 5-10 minutes of your time,” the email will say. Great. I’ll get to it right after the questionnaires related to… →
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