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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, ...
"Christian Poems, Prayer and Inspirations" provides a fresh take on typical religious teachings and is an excellent read for those looking to add new poems, prayers, and inspiration to their ...
T.S. Eliot's "Christian" poetry speaks as strongly to the contemporary ... in quotation from the old prayer, Anima Christi, to plead, "Suffer me not to be separated / And let my cry come unto ...
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 ...
The poems collected in Christian Wiman’s new book ... In “Hammer is the Prayer” he writes boldly that “There is no consolation in the thought of God.” In “It is Good to Sit Even ...
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 ...