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Poetry, Gift of a Bounteous Spirit

By Robin Bates | Published: November 18, 2022

Poetry is the gift that keeps on giving.

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Selma’s Bloody History

By Robin Bates | Published: March 7, 2015

Gregory Orr’s poem recalls his arrests in Alabama in 1965.

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Rising Again to Dance

By Robin Bates | Published: July 18, 2010

Chidi Okoye (Nigeria)  Spiritual Sunday I refute Berkeley thus, Samuel Johnson famously said. And kicked a rock. Bishop Berkeley was the 18th century idealist philosopher who asked how we know reality is really there if we are dependent upon our senses for perceiving it. Is the rock in existence when we turn our backs? Johnson’s […]

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Finding God in Nature’s Church

By Robin Bates | Published: June 6, 2010

The bobolink, Dickinson’s sexton and chorister  Spiritual Sunday “Remember the Sabbath Day and keep it holy,” instructs the fourth commandment. How are we to keep it holy? Emily Dickinson, a writer who wrestled with the stern Calvinism of her day, observed the sabbath in her own way. She was a private person who was skeptical of […]

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