Tag Archives: Madeleine L'Engle

The Stable Is Our Heart

By Robin Bates | Published: January 14, 2024

L’Engle’s “Into the Darkest Hour” promises hope when everything is falling apart.

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Handmaid’s Tale Comes a Step Closer

By Robin Bates | Published: May 3, 2022

We’re a step closer to “The Handmaid’s Tale.” But can find strength from “A Wrinkle in Time.”

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A Different Way to Observe Lent

By Robin Bates | Published: March 19, 2022

Madeleine L’Engle breaks with stereotyped version of Lent in the 1966 lyric.

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Help Me Forget the Cold

By Robin Bates | Published: December 11, 2021

L’Engle’s poem “The Winter Is Cold, Is Cold” describes a frozen heart that can melt only if it is willing to take a risk and love.

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When the Maker of the Stars Was Born

By Robin Bates | Published: December 4, 2021

In this Advent poem, L’Engle reminds us to sing, not in spite of times being dark, but BECAUSE times are dark.

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Mothering Jesus

By Robin Bates | Published: May 9, 2020

Spiritual Sunday – Mother’s Day For Mother’s Day, here are three Madeleine L’Engle poems about Mary and Jesus following the crucifixion. I love how they focus on Mary as mother. Three daysWhen you agree to be the mother of GodYou make no conditions, no stipulations.You flinch before neither cruel thorn nor rod.You accept the tears; […]

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Why an Af-Am Meg Is Important

By Robin Bates | Published: June 19, 2018

Having an African American Meg in the film version of Wrinkle in Time adds an important dimension to the novel.

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Only after Pain Comes Life

By Robin Bates | Published: May 14, 2017

For Mother’s Day, here’s a Madeleine L’Engle poem about Jesus’s mother experiencing the crucifixion and then the resurrection. In it we see both the joys and the heartbreak that come with an unconditional mother’s love.

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Chelsea’s Books and Female Ambition

By Robin Bates | Published: July 31, 2016

Chelsea Clinton revealed that she talked to her parents about Madeleine L’Engle’s “Wrinkle in Time” and watched the mini-series of “Pride and Prejudice” with her mother. Both feature strong heroines but also show these heroines to be confined to traditionally female roles.

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