Monday, March 30, 2026

Poems of Passion Week

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The Stones Talk It over … if they keep quiet, the stones will cry out. Luke 19:40 All was quiet on the street and in the city hall. Why ...
Wednesday, March 18, 2026

Blessed are the poets of peace: poems of the Beatitudes, part 3

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    Blessed Are the Pure in Heart (for they will see God) Matthew 5:8 Blessed are those who see the best, who refuse to judge vagrant or n...
Sunday, March 1, 2026

A longing that burns in the gut: poems of the Beatitudes, part 2

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Blessed Are the Meek (for they will inherit the earth) Matthew 5:5 I was a shy child and an awkward adolescent. In a group of over four pe...
Thursday, February 12, 2026

This rag-tag crowd: poems of the Beatitudes, part 1

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  The Mountainside Now when Jesus saw the crowds, he went up on a mountainside…. Matthew 5:1 I love your classroom, Lord. When I was a ki...
Saturday, January 17, 2026

Traveling light: poems of the Incarnation (5)

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Good Soil … other seed fell on good soil…. Matthew 13:8 I’m all the soils. Sometimes I’m so flat and dull that the seed of God’s word ...
Wednesday, January 7, 2026

Refugees: Advent poems 4

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  The Star … the star they had seen when it rose went ahead of them until it stopped over the place where the child was. Matthew 2:9 Stran...
Tuesday, December 23, 2025

Peasants and Astronomers: Advent poems 3

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  Peasants and Scholars There were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks by night. Luke 2:8-22 Not one ...