In a new book about inspirational poet Mattie Stepanek, who died in 2004, his mother Jeni writes about his short life and lasting legacy.
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November 13, 2009: Jeni Stepanek on Faith and Grief
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October 16, 2009: Autistic Poet
An 11-year-old autistic girl writes poetry about her inner world.
Posted: Oct 16th, 2009 Comments: 22 Views: 610
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September 25, 2009: Psalms for the High Holy Days
Read new translations of three psalms that are part of the liturgy of the Jewish High Holy Days.
Posted: Sep 25th, 2009 Comments: 1 Views: 562
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September 18, 2009: Seek My Face
In the words of a new translation of Psalm 27, the psalm most associated with the Jewish High Holidays, "Your face, God, is what I constantly search for."
Posted: Sep 17th, 2009 Comments: 3 Views: 1,273
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August 5, 2009: The Things of This World
For many poets, believers and nonbelievers alike, it is possible to talk about the religious imagination they bring to apprehending reality and describing the world. Welsh Anglican priest and poet R.S. Thomas, for example, was one of the greatest poets of the absence of God.
Posted: Aug 5th, 2009 Comments: 0 Views: 2,021
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May 22, 2009: Homage and Commemoration
At the memorial for the American dead of Vietnam, writes Lorrie Goldensohn, we meet as a community and are made to see that "we are always at one with the living and the dead."
Posted: May 22nd, 2009 Comments: 1 Views: 1,395
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March 20, 2009: Gerard Manley Hopkins
A new biography of this Christ-haunted Victorian poet and Jesuit priest explores his relationship with the priesthood and explains the theological impulses that give his poems their meaning.
Posted: Mar 20th, 2009 Comments: 5 Views: 4,667
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January 9, 2009: Worshipping Walt
Walt Whitman believed himself a prophet and regarded Leaves of Grass as scripture. So did his many disciples.
Posted: Jan 6th, 2009 Comments: 1 Views: 3,483
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March 29, 2002: Mattie and Jeni Stepanek
Mattie Stepanek is the brilliant, wheelchair-bound Maryland boy with muscular dystrophy who has become a best-selling inspirational poet. Both he and his mother, Jeni Stepanek, suffer from rare but different forms of the disease. Exactly one year ago, Mattie almost died. But -- strongly supported by his mother, who is also in a wheelchair -- Mattie outlived all expectations and, not yet a teenager, he has become an amazingly mature public speaker and authority on life at the edge of death.
Posted: Mar 29th, 2002 Comments: 0 Views: 169
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A profile of a man who knows a great deal about poetry and a great deal about funerals. He is Thomas Lynch, writer and mortician, and each of his vocations enriches the other.
Posted: May 4th, 2001 Comments: 0 Views: 852
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