A friend asked me for my definition of hope, and I found myself talking about covenant. Hope is the love of neighbor and the world that keeps you going, despite all of the reasons for despair. During an interfaith panel that I sat on a student asked how the panelists different traditions maintained hope in … Continue reading “A Psalm” by Thomas Merton
Category: Meditations & Essays
In addition to writing my own poems, I also think about and comment on the poetry of others. I also write about spirituality in general.
To You Be Your Way, and To Me Mine
A few weeks ago, I received a Chick tract in the mail. It was delivered to my home in a handwritten envelope with no return address. The little booklet inside contained a smug, homophobic comic in which Jesus was portrayed as offering love through the medium of hate. One of my colleagues at St. Stephen’s … Continue reading To You Be Your Way, and To Me Mine
A Little Flower from St. Teresa
Florilegium, or "little flowers," were small sayings from scripture or from saints and mystics that were illuminated and placed in Medieval prayer books. I drew this image in my sketchbook (and drawing for me is a form of prayer) using India ink. I don't pencil things in first, I just try to cooperate with the … Continue reading A Little Flower from St. Teresa
Mary Magdalene
Magdala was a town of almost forty-thousand. It was a town of white pigeons hatched from three hundred shops, birds for sacrifice that sometimes escaped to roost in eves and on rooftops and descend in flocks on a piece of dropped fish. Magdala was a town of fish. Mary watched the fishermen heave them from … Continue reading Mary Magdalene
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