Arts & Culture

Poetry

Lullaby

by Joseph Bathanti

Poetry

Sweet Jesus

by Christine Hemp

On Art

No more of it in one place than another (Eight shades of blue at the Ex-Convento de Santo Domingo de Guzmán) and Model for a String of Dreams, by Cherith Lundin

art selection and comment by Lil Copan

Poetry

On the way to work

by Francine Marie Tolf

Poetry

Snow plant

by Paul Willis

Poetry

Speech

by Sarah Rossiter

Poetry

A strand of pearls

by Peter Cooley

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Books

Poems of hope, gratitude, and perspective

The devotional, political poetry of Barbara Crooker

by James Crews

On Art

Model for Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Portland, Maine, 2019 (in progress), by Robert Katz

art selection and comment by Aaron Rosen

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Books

Examining whiteness through “reparative writing”

Jess Row asks what happens when alienation turns to rage.

by Amy Frykholm

Poetry

Sonnet for myself at 17

by Tania Runyan

Screen Time

How universal is the Force?

The Rise of Skywalker reduces a powerful theological symbol to a family drama.

by Kathryn Reklis

Poetry

Saint Jerome in love

by John Poch

Sunday Morning Matinee

Episode 73: The Two Popes

Matt and Adam talk about the papacy, the burdens of ministry, and The Two Popes. 
Poetry

Poem

by Greg Huteson

Poetry

Axis mundi, tree at the center of the universe

by Muriel Nelson

Poetry

Crossing Rio Grande

by Tricia Gates Brown

Critical Essay

The story of Israeli prime minister Yitzak Rabin’s assassin

Incitement shows the roots of political fractures that remain.

by Mordechai Beck

Poetry

Some obscure fact

by Megan McDermott

On Art

Mary 2018 (aka Mary at the Border Fence), by Benjamin Wildflower

art selection and comment by Lil Copan

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