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Verse and song

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Holy Thursday Pop-Up Foot Clinic

By Ashley Makar | April 6, 2023

Listen while two feet soak.

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Ash Blessings

By Ashley Makar | February 22, 2023

No need to profess a thing.

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Plague Psalm 19

By Philip Metres | June 21, 2022

Bees needle our sin-stung flesh in your hive
Yet some kind of sweetness
still touches the tongue.

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On Gratitude

By Rebecca Ramdhan | April 27, 2022

But there was love, love, love,
dripping from our hands.
We both gripped the sharp edge,
and it was painful

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Two Poems by Joe Gross

By Joe Gross | April 22, 2022

Sometimes
multiplication
of loaves
just means
splitting
one loaf
between
two people.

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Poems for the Cruelest Month

By Francesca Hyatt | April 19, 2022

All of the intensity and unpredictability of this season, the surges of hope and terror, the stirring of memory and desire—word images, symbols, and sounds arranged in rhythm, engaged in elegy and mystery may be our best bet for helping us hold it all.

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Baptism

By Matt Thomas | January 24, 2022

The still surface lifted by morning fog
as if a bed sheet
that I’m beneath, in the silt, hair reaching,
skin frog-throat white

Mary Oliver and her dog, Perry. Photograph by Rachel Brown.

Joy Before Death: Following the Path of Mary Oliver

By Stephen Prothero | January 18, 2019

From Buddhism to science to the end of life.

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Stolen Apples

By Randy R. Potts | April 3, 2017

an elegy for Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Field of weeds where slaves were buried on the former Lomo Alto Plantation directly behind an HBCU named Prairie View A&M. August, 2015. Photograph by Randy R. Potts

The Devil and #SandraBland

By Randy R. Potts | October 6, 2016

The devil didn’t harm us in our little encampment.

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Cloud Of Witnesses: A Sermon

By Briallen Hopper | April 24, 2015

Feidin Santana and not passing injustice by.

In bloom peach tree orchard in western Colorado.

Belief

By Miriam Bird Greenberg | September 29, 2014

A drama in three vignettes.

Killing the Buddha

Satan Is Real

By Elliot Harmon | February 20, 2014

He’s the only thing real in Utah.

by Maqroll via Flickr

Satan Is Real

By Elliot Harmon | February 20, 2014

He’s the only thing real in Utah.

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Blind Boys

By Brian Ted Jones | November 5, 2013

A revelation at the Austin City Limits music festival.

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Buddha Loves Me, This I Know

By KtBniks | August 29, 2013

Some folks act just like they hate ya/ But all dogs have a Buddha nature.

via Flickr, by gwen

Searching for Bach

By Kaya Oakes | April 18, 2013

The cello sounded like heaven. Or whatever heaven sounds like when you’re twelve.

Hildegard von Bingen.

Tongues of Fire

By Lisa Levy | June 13, 2011

A Pentecost revival song.