Sonnet: To Mary at Bethany (John 12)
I know that you are Son changed in the holy Fire, the feet and tears of the foot washed And God washing all that you are and washed In all He is – the heaven’s high shout of Holy! With the nard her hands pour to be washed, For the murder His hands felt to […]
Working toward a concise gospel presentation
The hope and power of a Christian spirituality begins with this: who Christ claims to be. What is this claim? That Jesus understood Himself to be a God and a Man. If it’s true, this is the most astounding fact of history. The story of our sacred writings is about the estrangement between God and […]
The Tree of Life
Genesis 3 22 Then the LORD God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of us in knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat, and live forever—” 23 therefore the LORD God sent him out from the garden of Eden […]