That’s not a poem specifically about Easter. Phyllis McGinley wrote it to celebrate attending church services on a fine spring day. The title is “Sunday Psalm” and it grows from a paraphrase of verse ...

"Sometimes we find that the best-loved Gospel stories become so familiar that we can no longer respond to them," says Rosenthal (The Poets' Jesus). "Poetry's special gift is to cast a fresh eye on the ...

There is, of course, no hidden chapter in the “Good Book” that explores sandaled Jesus’ fashion rules, but Cornelius Eady in “Easter Shoes” is being funny and deadly serious. The poem takes him back ...

FROM the soil of the monastic life, which might seem, for many reasons, to have been unfavorable to such a development, there sprang and bloomed some of the rarest flowers of Christian poetry. There ...

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The stage was set for a direct confrontation at the Super Bowl. Instead, Bad Bunny created a liturgy for belonging. When a pastor is an ICE agent, faithfulness might be found in what looks like its ...