Tag Archives: Easter

Stranger Than Fiction’s Easter Message

By Robin Bates | Published: April 6, 2024

The film “Stranger Than Fiction” has a profound Lenten/Easter theme.

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Radical Hope, Love’s Secret Discipline

By Robin Bates | Published: March 30, 2024

Two poems for Easter on the power of love over death.

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It’s World Chocolate Day–Treat Yourself!

By Robin Bates | Published: July 6, 2023

Today being World Chocolate Day, I quote liberally from Joanne Harris’s novel “Chocolat.”

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Breaking Bread at Emmaus

By Robin Bates | Published: April 22, 2023

Levertov says that seeing Jesus’s resurrection as no more than a metaphor is not enough for her. She requires a tangible miracle.

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Blazing Lilies, a Prayer Heard & Answered

By Robin Bates | Published: April 8, 2023

Mary Oliver’s “Morning Poem” works as a fitting verse for Easter, with its vision of new creation–which for her occurs every day.

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Reporting on My Lenten Observance

By Robin Bates | Published: May 14, 2022

For my Lenten observance, I read “Faerie Queene,” Book I–in which (at one point) Lenten observance gets taken to an extreme.

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Out of Black Ponds, Water Lillies

By Robin Bates | Published: April 16, 2022

“Morning Poem” works as an Easter poem because every morning, as Oliver sees it, is a mini-resurrection.

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Do Not Stand by My Grave and Cry

By Robin Bates | Published: May 1, 2021

As I remember my eldest son, this Clare Harner Lyon poem brings me peace.

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I, Only I, Must Wander Wearily

By Robin Bates | Published: April 3, 2021

While Easter is often celebrated through elaborate rituals, this Wilde poem reminds us not to forget its true meaning.

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