MYSTERY: Shadow Work, by Eugene H. Peterson
From Practice Resurrection Judith is an artist. Her primary medium is textiles. Most of the time she begins her work with raw cotton or wool. She cards, spins, dyes, and then weaves her fabrics....
View ArticleTHE SHADOW: Light’s Companion, by Madeleine L’Engle
From Parabola In A Child’s Garden of Verses, Robert Louis Stevenson writes, “I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me / and what can be the use of him is more than I can see.” Those lines...
View ArticlePOETRY: Shadows, by Fanny Howe
1 It was still daylight Seeing as the rim Of the earth tended towards night When she said the Messiah is turning Let loose the demons from his cloth And redden the ashes (her psyche was shed) . The...
View ArticlePOETRY: A Short History Of The Shadow, by Charles Wright
Thanksgiving, dark of the moon. Nothing down here in the underworld but vague shapes and black holes, Heaven resplendent but virtual Above me, trees stripped and triple-wired like Irish harps. Lights...
View ArticleREFLECTION: Shadows, by Terry Hershey
From The Power of Pause As long as the most important thing in your life is to keep finding your way, you’re going to live in mortal terror of losing it. Once you’re willing to be lost, though, you’ll...
View ArticleSATURDAY READING: Phil’s Shadow, by Michael P. Foley
The Lessons of Groundhog Day From Touchstone Last December the New York Time ran an intriguing article about a Museum of Modern Art movie series on film and faith. What attracted the Times to the...
View ArticlePOETRY: Three Poems Of John Ashbery
The Pursuit of Happiness It came about that there was no way of passing Between the twin partitions that presented A unified façade, that of a suburban shopping mall In April. One turned, as one does,...
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