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Each week during Eastertide I am posting a poem that helps me engage more meaningfully with Jesus' resurrection. Here is stanza IV of T. S. Eliot's poem "East Coker," which is from Four Quartets (1943). Thomas Stearns Eliot is probably the most famous twentieth-century English-language poet, renowned for his groundbreaking work typified in poems like …
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Each week during Eastertide I am posting a poem that helps me engage more meaningfully with Jesus' resurrection. Here is Christian Wiman's poem "Every Riven Thing," which is from Every Riven Thing (2011). Christian Wiman is a contemporary poet and essayist who edited Poetry (2003-2013) and serves at Yale Divinity School as Professor of the …
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Each week during Eastertide I am posting a poem that helps me engage more meaningfully with Jesus' resurrection. Here is Denise Levertov's poem "On Belief in the Physical Resurrection of Jesus," from The Collected Poems of Denise Levertov. Denise Levertov was a twentieth century poet, born in England and later residing in the United States. …
As I did two years ago, each week during Eastertide I will post a poem that helps me engage more meaningfully with the message of Christ's resurrection. Here is George Herbert's poem "Easter Wings" from The Temple. George Herbert was a priest in the Church of England and one of the most significant poets of …
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Before the crucifixion, and while on His way to Jerusalem, Jesus predicts His death in conversation with His disciples three different times. In each of Jesus’ predictions of His death, there is an expanding description of the suffering, but there is a consistent description of resurrection, each time given in one final phrase: “…on the …
Matthew Erickson 