Writing Update: The Sound of the City
In my latest post on The Master’s Artist, entitled “The Sound of the City,” I describe how walking through New York City can lead to poetry. An excerpt: When I finally get to the building where…
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Poetry and Liturgy
Tonight I am reading some of my own poetry in the Robeson Center at Rutgers-Newark, along with a bunch of other people as well. I finalized my poems last night, ones I had previously written…
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Writing Update: Poetry as Therapy
My essay on my relationship with poetry throughout life changes, and the questioning of why I really ever wrote poetry to begin with, is out in the new Friday issue of The Curator. In “Poetry as…
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Poetry as Personal Vocation
“If it turns out I haven’t written a great poem, fine. I really hope that I’ve written something a few people will want to keep in their heads, but to obsess about more than that…
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The Writer’s Almanac’s Definition of Vocation
Each day, when Garrison Keillor has finished with the daily poem on The Writer’s Almanac broadcast, he says the words “Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.” In a nutshell, what Keillor is doing is…
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God’s Love for You
Contributor Evan Curry shares about God’s love… When my daughter was born, I recall feeling an overwhelming sense of love for her. I loved her just because. She couldn’t offer me anything. She was a helpless…
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3 Ways to Delight and not Despair
It’s before seven o’clock on the morning and I am reading a detailed document on violence against the poor within the developing world. Property grabbing. Sex trafficking. Bonded labor. Police brutality. Torture. All there in…
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Justification in The New Perspective: Toward a Fuller Understanding of the Gospel
In the thirty years since its inception, the so-called New Perspective on Paul (NPP) has attracted both eager followers as well as vehement critics for its treatment of the gospel. Some of the most trenchant…
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Metatation: How to Meditate on Meditation
Metatation: to meditate on meditation “May my meditation be pleasing…” – Psalm 104 I. Meditation is not a means to an end, it is the substance of worship. II. Meditation does not produce worship, it…
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In Observance of the Gospel
“In observance of Memorial Day the VRE will not operate on Monday, May 27th,” sound the loudspeakers at the train station. Of course, no one will be going to work anyway, its a public holiday.…