Rather than raging at God for not intervening to save the exploited—the question with which all serious Christian poetry grapples in some way—Brown saves her anger and pity for the humans who can’t ...

For Christian Wiman, doubt has not quite solidified into unbelief, which means his poems are saturated with the largest questions one can ask. A former editor of Poetry magazine, current professor of ...

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 ...

According to one scholar, it has been called the “greatest Christian poem written in English.” That’s a debatable call but a position that one would well argue. It is certainly one of the ...

In his new anthology, Joy: 100 Poems, the writer Christian Wiman takes readers through the ostensible ordinariness of life and reveals the extraordinary. “We ate, and talked, and went to bed ...

Priests washing feet in commemoration of the Washing of the Disciple’s Feet by Jesus Christ at Maundy Thursday ... selection of Maundy Thursday quotes, poems and prayers. The washing of the ...

Maya Angelou, who died in May 2014, became one of those figures (à la Mark Twain or Abraham Lincoln) who ended up with more of other people’s words attributed to her than words of her own.

The poems collected in Christian Wiman’s new book, “Every Riven Thing,” suggest that he has accepted Voltaire’s invitation: these poems are riveting and sometimes deeply disturbing ...