I feared that in For Lovers of God Everywhere: Poems of the Christian Mystics, I would encounter a thin selection of poets from the traditional verse cisterns, and I was irritated ahead of schedule ...

But we can pay tribute to the extraordinary Christian poetry that he left us. It is not a cozy, pious poetry. Thomas is often called the “poet of the hidden God.” Poem after poem finds him kneeling in ...

A devout Christian, Wiman views his faith and his reignited relationship to God as an active practice. “The way I experience God is in relationship, in activity, in making art, in relating with people ...

In the second class, we looked at the poetry of the Jesuit saint and martyr, St. Robert Southwell, discussing his connections with, and his influence on, William Shakespeare.

One reason I think we keep making poetry is because we are ourselves poems. There’s a verse in the Bible (Ephesians 2:10) in which we are described as the “handiwork of God.”But it’s the ...

The book contains poems written about God (or as if they came to us from God) from Christian mystics (e.g. Catherine of Sienna, Teresa of Avila, John of the Cross, St. Francis Assisi, Meister ...

Eliot’s work, both poetry and prose, although the poetry alone can be considered here, has a peculiar significance for the Christian, whether he be theologian, preacher, or layman, for Eliot has ...

Every Riven Thing: Poems Christian Wiman Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 112 pages, $24 “Come, ye philosophers who cry ‘All’s well,’ / And contemplate this ruin of a world,” wrote the French ...

But where the poem, and even more often the prose, frames this emotion within a religious scaffold, it is almost always toward a monotheistic, and Christian, God. The poems in this collection hail ...

Christian Wiman's new essay collection, My Bright Abyss, ... In her poem, "God Works in a Mysterious Way," Brooks calls on God to "Step forth in splendor, mortify our wolves, ...

Reading God’s Word like a Poem, Not an Instruction Manual Interview by Jessica Hooten Wilson The Bible teaches us, says Matthew Mullins, but its method of teaching always entails more than ...

Christian Wiman: I have found it a relief to not be talking about God and found it helpful to take that word out of circulation for a bit. I almost feel like it would be helpful for us as a culture if ...