A pastor’s fresh vision for tired eyes. I was on a father-son trip with my eight-year-old son, Hank, when my hair started falling out. While taking a quick shower in the hotel room, I felt something ...

About ten years ago, I returned to church after a long hiatus. What drove me back to church was not a recovery of earlier beliefs or listeners. Poetry was in the hymns and in the simple words people ...

Still fresh a century on, this is a very neat dramatisation of the clash between religion’s commands and human instinct As I was lying in my bed I heard the church-bell ring; Before one solemn word ...

I recently taught a short six-class course for Homeschool Connections on “Poems Every Catholic Should Know.” The text for the course was my book of the same title, which is an anthology of Christian ...

A man has a vision. He is walking on a road. He is going to bring the followers of Jesus to Jerusalem. He will persecute them. But something happens. He is struck on a road just outside Damascus, and ...

Spoken word artist, poet and songstress Ursula Rucker of Germantown delivered selected epic poems at her home church last Sunday, Feb. 1. After the morning Mass at the St. Vincent’s Catholic Church, ...

A church bell ringer is ready to cause a ding dong in poetry circles when he releases his verses about his love for the county town. Michael Carding, who is tower captain at Holy Trinity Church in ...

Even now, I miss and feel the sea that stings,/ the memory of mountain ridges filled with wild chrysanthemums./ The islands ...

Marcus Amaker, a well-known Charleston poet, will share his heart-felt poem about the tragic church shooting in June during A&E’s “Conversations on Race in America.” Marcus Amaker, a Charleston poet ...