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Each week during Eastertide I am posting a poem that helps me engage more meaningfully with Jesus' resurrection. Here is Emily Dickinson's poem "'Hope' is the thing with feathers." While Emily Dickinson was perhaps unique in her understanding of Christianity, many of her poems, such as this one, capture the power of religious themes and …
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What happens when people do not have hope? What happens when a young man or young woman looks to the future and the lack of hope has dimmed all brightness in those days to come? What happens when people do not have hope? What happens when an older woman or an older man looks to …
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I just found out that the latest installment of Eugene Peterson's series on spiritual theology has a publication date. Tell It Slant: A Conversation on the Language of Jesus in His Stories and Prayers is set to hit the shelves on September 29, 2008. The title of this fourth book comes from a poem by …
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