A collection of prayer, poetry, and spiritual practice centering ... and a surge of anti-Black rhetoric in many Christian spaces, she began dreaming of a more human, more liberating expression ...

My prayers tend to be short, inelegant, a little undisciplined. I love both poetry and prayer, even though I confess to being good at neither one. I love the formal prayers in my prayer books, ...

The Christian plummet sounding heav’n and earth . . . Herbert’s poems do not hesitate to enter into the “familiar conference with God” described by Andrewes. In such poems, the distinction between ...

Since 1900, the Christian Century has published reporting, commentary, poetry, and essays on the role of faith in a pluralistic society.

There is the need for grace, there is the prayer for humility ... in some way into a basically Christian design. Eliot moves from these earlier “Christian” poems in the “third voice ...

Christian Wiman is an American poet and editor of Poetry. He is the author of, most recently, Ambition and Survival: Becoming a Poet (Copper Canyon Press). Ads help fund our journalism.

vocations and poetry. We compared George Herbert’s “Prayer” to Christian Wiman’s “Prayer.” We discussed Langston Hughes’s “Island,” Countee Cullen’s “Yet Do I Marvel” and ...