In his innocence, he takes Christ at his word. Forgive 70 times seven. We laugh at Raimundo’s extravagance (which he has “regretted” but not abandoned). But we know the joke is on us: if we aren’t ...

Great Christian Poems Teach Priceless Lessons About Life. I hope to live the life of virtue that great poetry inspires. Raffaelo Sorbi, “Dante Meets Beatrice,” 1903 (photo: Public Domain) ...

Later Christian poetry often depicts Christ as a victim for the sins of humanity. But the Rood poet depicts Christ as a warrior, like some Anglo-Saxon prince engaging the enemy in single combat.

When poetry gives voice to those who have no voice—those who are dead, marginalized, or ignored—it helps resurrect lives from oblivion. Such poems are called “poems of witness.” Molly McCully Brown’s ...

Today’s poem, “Christ’s Nativity,” illustrates the posthumous influence of the Anglican poet-divine George Herbert (1593–1633) on his Welsh disciple Henry Vaughan (1621–1695). Vaughan was only twelve ...

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 ...

Christmas poems to put you in a festive mood. Snow-tipped chimneys, fresh pine, lively carols and gifts wrapped with care: For over a century, Christmas poems have captured the magic of the most ...

The poem has been anthologized in several books, including "Chicken Soup for the Christian Family Soul," and circulated online with missing or erroneous attributions. David Mikkelson Published ...

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 ...