e.e. cummings and Easter
April 5, 2026: Easter Sunday I’ve yet to have gathered the courage to write an Easter poem. Maybe one day. In the meantime, here is one (perhaps) by e.e. cummings whose father left his university job to become the pastor of South Congregational Church in Boston, Massachusetts. cummings himself was influenced by both Christianity and…
Holy Saturday: A Poem
April 4, 2026: Holy Saturday, the day between Good Friday and Easter Sunday in the Christian tradition. In-Between The women who had come with Jesus from Galilee followed Joseph and saw the tomb and how his (Jesus’) body was laid in it. Then they went home and prepared spices and perfumes. But they rested on…
“Good Friday” by Hayden Carruth
April 3, 2026 This Good Friday as I walk a labyrinth while wrens and phoebes twitter from the still-barren oaks and hickories, I find myself surrounded in thought by all of those being crucified this very day: • Those being held in detention centers across the country, not knowing what the next moment will bring;•…
Contemplation with Cat
February 21, 2026 In this Lenten season, instead of “giving up,” I’m trying to “give to,” such as giving time to God in meditation, but sometimes a cat assumes it’s a god, too. Contemplation with Cat Dear Cat, who asked you hereinto my time of prayerand up to my empty lap?I did not invite your…
From Ash to Heart
Ash Wednesday, February 18, 2026 “And we are put on earth a little spaceThat we might learn to bear the beams of love.”William Blake No matter where we’ve lived this past year, we have one experience in common: being knocked off-balance by an American administration that cares only for itself while having our personal freedoms,…
A Valentine’s Day Prayer
February 14, 2026 I felt compelled to share a prayer that came across my prayer app, Lectio 365*, this morning, a prayer for those for whom today is a tough day, a prayer that puts real love in perspective, a prayer composed not by me but by the founder of the app, Peter Greig. May…
Oh, Canada . . .
February 11, 2026 My American heart grieves for Canada this day, particularly for Tumbler Ridge Secondary School, for its community, and for British Columbia. How I despair to see Canadians experience and feel what so many Americans have had to experience and feel ourselves: the senseless, soul-searing, heartbreak, confusion, anger, and helplessness of unexpected violence…
Look to the Stars
February 5, 2026 Over the past two weeks, since the murder of Alex Pretti by ICE “agents” on the streets of Minneapolis, I’ve tried to put my feelings into words, wishing that the bullets that spewed from those guns into Pretti’s back would have moved as slowly as the ink from my pen. I cannot…
One Year Later
January 20, 2026 Today, one year into the second term of Donald Trump, we are a country in distress. Today is not a day to celebrate, but to mourn and to prepare. In another immature and bullish post (Epstein files, Venezuela, and ICE aside), Trump spewed about invading Greenland because neither Greenland nor Denmark awarded…
Lamentation: A Poem
January 14, 2026 In memory of Renee Good* and the dozens of others who have been killed by ICE. A Poem of Lamentationafter Psalm 13 How long, God of this present time? How long?Have you turned away from us,forgotten your children?How long must we endure the lies,cruelty, provocations and injusticesinflicted on this country? How longwill…
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