Make It New: Unresolved
by Susannah Brister Proverbs 13:12 “Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but desire fulfilled is a tree of life.” I have always hated New Year’s resolutions.
February 4, 2020
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R&S religion
children
Rainbow Boy
by Karen Bjork Kubin I wish you could have seen the look on his face, walking home from school. I wish you could carry it
October 29, 2018
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Art and Faith
12.2 Contributor Notes
With a poem, faith is a hidden constellation, beginning with the still-mysterious act of writing. The blank page, which is simultaneously white and dark, is the abyss each writer stares into until the moment, as Nietzsche said, where the abyss stares back into the writer.
May 4, 2018
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art
Imprint
In the same way, if I spend so much energy and effort trying to create music or art or poetry that is meaningful, or beautiful, shot-through with light, grace, insight, and love, how can that not spill over into working for these things in the larger world?
February 7, 2018
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Fox News
Summer Reading: Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth
Zealot might not be the kind of book everyone would consider a “summer read”—but really, aren’t we past being limited to breezy love stories with no substance? This is a book that is worth all of the buckling down, you’ll need to apply to reading it.
July 13, 2017
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empathy
Sympathy, Empathy, and American Healthcare
Eventually, life happens to everyone – it is the great equalizer. Someday, you might be in the position to not contribute anything.
June 5, 2017
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books
Sweet Child, You Are Loved
Every time I prayed, a gentle, insistent sense arose in me – Do this…You can do this…I want you to do this – the same sense that had been prodding me during the past six months as my husband and I discussed fostering a child and researched the process, and I, initially resistant to the idea, had begun praying about it.
May 9, 2017
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Art and Faith
Make it New: Prayer
So when I learned the Lord’s Prayer, it was one of the most liberating moments of my early religious development. The roteness and authority of it were exactly what I needed to get through meal- and bed-time rituals.
April 20, 2017
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Art and Faith
Remembered Sounds: Of Breaking and Healing
But it was music that drew out her deepest emotions, her greatest performances. When we were very young, she would sing to us at night the saddest songs you can imagine.
March 30, 2017
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art
Contributor Notes: 11.2
hese poems are my way of honoring the mysteries of the natural world—weather, geology, our human impermanence—using metaphor and image, rhythm and form to understand our roles in such an intricate system.
February 10, 2017
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art
Special Issue Release at AWP
We are not interested in who is right or wrong, politically, but in capturing the voices in the discussion. We attempted to present as wide an array of voices as we could.
February 7, 2017
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librarian
On Research “Soul Mates”: Or, The Short Distance Between Friendly Chat And Teen Paranormal Romance
By Amy C. Rice Networking is such a boring word. I am not saying networking isn’t useful or important, but the word itself does not
January 26, 2013
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