Easter Poem
The Mistaken Gardener by Seth Wieck There was reclamation to be doneThe path being overrun with runnersMy foot having caught in the matrixof vines to skin my palms in the thorns that received me. Read the rest of the poem here.
Read MoreAdventures in New Testament Greek: Nous
BY SCOTT CAIRNS You could almost think the word synonymous with mind, given our so far narrow history, and the excessive esteem in which we have been led to hold what is, in this case, our rightly designated nervous systems. Little wonder then that some presume the mind itself both part and parcel of […]
Read More12/14/2003
Still true, now: The blessing of the LordIs spoken through a friend;A curse from the LordIs averted through a friend. I will set a constellation in my heartTowards the worship of the Lord;The northern stars will be the word of the LordAnd the stars that move with my vessel will be good friends.
Read MoreJourney of the Magi
By T.S. Eliot (Follow the link and listen to him read it). ‘A cold coming we had of it, Just the worst time of the year For a journey, and such a journey: The ways deep and the weather sharp, The very dead of winter.’ And the camels galled, sore-footed, refractory, Lying down in the […]
Read MoreEzekiel
By Ryan Culwell mystiplexed: Broke my hammer pounding words And sounding warnings seldom heard Forging bells out of rhyme While something older has occurred People swaying to my sirens And the rhythm of my work Singing oh how we love these love songs While I cut their heads off with my dirge
Read MoreAdvent Sonnet #2 – Romans 1
Romans 1:3-4 O Messiah, Your prism mysteriesHave scattered the light ‘cross my feeble eyes.In my blinking, I’ve seen the strange storiesOf how one man born can be fathered twice. Son of Man, son of Adam, David’s son:Death spread to all men because we all sinned.You, grafted in, donned our skin to be undoneLike the oven-fired […]
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