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Bonnie Thurston
Bonnie Thurston has written or edited 24 theological books and eight books of poetry.
Last Suppers
Last evening’s catered meal delivered on rented china plates was lovely but lacking the mysterious ingredient ...
Come Wednesday Morning
For more than twenty years I have bagged groceries at our parish food pantry then attended noon Eucharist. ...
Facing Failure
My crumbling castle is perched on a hill. Hidden from the road by long ago planted climbing roses, ...
Re-imagine
Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth. Revelation 21:1...
Christmas Story
I didn’t brave the frigid temperature to attend the Christmas Eve liturgy. I went to the 10:30 a.m. Eucharist when it was marginally warmer. ...
Light Shines in Darkness
Everybody knows Christmas
is good for business.
To attract the tourist trade,
our town council cheerfully
promotes an annual
“Festival of Lights,”...
The church’s one foundation
Unable to see verdant forests
for mangled, ecclesial trees,
most of my companions
have abandoned the church,
not rats, but certainly escapees...
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By the oaks of Mamre
He had been a stranger,
so took in strangers,
today three, and
in the heat of the day.
He interrupts my spinning
wool for his new cloak,...
Maundy Thursday,
Plague Year
Plague Year
“and I am perpetually awaiting / a rebirth of wonder”
Lawrence Ferlinghetti...
A process not to be hurried
Long solitude is a gradual
drawing inward, going deeper,
like autumn bulbs
snuggling into the soil,
marinating in darkness....
Wrong way round
In a theological tome I read
“opening the world to God”
which echoes in my ear
a quarter tone off pitch,
just enough to make choirs
of angels and archangels wince....
Silent night
The old tradition says
at Christ’s borning
there was utter silence.
The whole created world
was still. For an hour.
Even choirs of angels
went quiet....