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The Color of Light
By: Victoria Peterson-Hilleque | April 30, 2005
Rainbows fume frommy body, but the green water to nourish them flows sporadically. These hungry beams of refracted light wait
Into Silence
By: Ruth Hoppin | January 31, 2005
I dare my soul to mark the solemn hourfor healing of the world’s disquietude, glean harvests of eternity in fading tapestries of time, engage that higher realm where love abounds.
100% Chance of Snow
By: William David Spencer | October 31, 2004
Snow falls gentlylike little promises accumulating over the years, piling into great mounds of failed commitment. Too large to ignore, it stands grim sentinel in the chill of resentment, but it slowly melts away under the sunshine of mercy.
The Starlight Night
By: Gerard Manley Hopkins | July 31, 2004
Look at the stars! look, look up at the skies!O look at all the fire-folk sitting in the air! The bright boroughs, the circle-citadels there! Down in dim woods the diamond delves! the elves'-eyes! The grey lawns cold where gold, where quickgold lies! Wind-beat whitebeam! airy abeles set on a flare! Flake-doves sent floating [...]
Fashionable
By: CBE International | April 30, 2004
Amnesia regarding social, cultural and political movements is fashionable, in part, because patriarchs would rather not acknowledge how the shape of the world changed.
Hollyhock
By: Jean Janzen | January 31, 2004
Those summer days we pinched offthe blooms to make ballerinas, bud for the head, sticky stamen under the silky skirts, and then the whirling. Beauty and desire in their bright confusions.
Mutuality, Equalty, and Intersubmission: Tangled thoughts from a communitarian
By: Jon Trott | October 31, 2001
There are many others more qualified than I to represent a theological and philosophical apologetic for an “egalitarian” or “mutuality” point of view regarding women in the church.
I Will Never Leave You Nor Forsake You
By: Michelle E. Robbins | April 30, 2001
Who are we, Jesus, to demandproof from you of your integrity? We are as nothing; a mere speck of dust in the sphere of the universe.
My Soul Has Died...
By: Michelle E. Robbins | April 30, 2001
My soul has died a thousand deaths;My pain and anguish has no limit to cry a thousand oceans to ache with intensity unmeasurable the unsharable agony of my existence.
Who Was She?
By: Patricia Donohue-Carey | January 31, 2001
Who was she in the Garden, there beforeThe tree with cherubim and flaming Sword Was guarded? What true thoughts, not culture's lore, By grace, and yet by more: first fellowship's Commune, did her mind hold, and her heart own?