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A Rural Calling: Allyn Maxfield-Steele

On a rainy Memorial Day . . .

The poem Memorial Rain, by Archibald MacLeish. He wrote this about his brother Kenneth who died in WWI. Most readers will not know that Archibald also served in combat in that war,...

Malcolm Guite: Poet’s Corner

MAGGIE and I were on the footpath between Southwold and Walberswick on a warm April morning when we caught a brief glimpse of the sudden ascent of a lark from the low-lying field b...

The Fire on the Altar: Emerson’s Longing and the Restoration’s Reply

The Spectral Preacher In 1838, Ralph Waldo Emerson stood before the graduating divinity students at Harvard and said aloud what most of them had only whispered over supper. Christi...

Malcolm Guite: Poet’s Corner

I WAS in London the other day, speaking to a group of American pastors at St Martin-in-the-Fields. After a good lunch in the church’s wonderful crypt-café, they bundled me into an...

Malcolm Guite: Poet’s Corner

THE weather is just about getting warm enough for me to make use of my little writing hut: a wooden shed at the bottom of our garden, which bears a ceramic plaque that my mother ha...

On This Day in 2019, Nashville Bid Farewell to the Songwriter Who Penned Country Classics for Merle Haggard, Charley Pri...

Poetry as Gift: Eucharistic Miracle

Coburn Dolloff on the miraculous. 

Malcolm Guite: Poet’s Corner

I WRITE this from the Collegio Ghislieri, in the ancient university town of Pavia. The college was founded in 1567, though the university itself is far older than that, as there is...

On This Day in 1999, We Lost the Singer-Songwriter, Poet, and Cartoonist Behind Johnny Cash’s Best-Known Whimsical Hit

On This Day in 1999, We Lost the Singer-Songwriter, Poet, and Cartoonist Behind Johnny Cash’s Best-Known Whimsical Hit

Malcolm Guite: Poet’s Corner

WE ALL have our own landmarks, stand-out passages in the varied terrain of scripture — places that seem set aside or lifted up for us to get our bearings, to be reoriented, blazes...

Malcolm Guite: Poet’s Corner

I AM back to my nest in North Walsham, back to my abandoned routines, back to my daily prayer walks in Sadlers Wood. I miss all these things sorely when I am abroad in a maze of le...

In Marshall, North Carolina, a Group of Ballad Singers Reflects on how Hurricane Helene Affected Their Tradition

Word Wrangler: May 5, 2026

Members of the Philosophical Society of Texas.

NIGHT PRAYER: Thursday 4/30

Today is the tenth anniversary of the death of poet, priest, protestor, prophet and peacemaker, Dan Berrigan, SJ.  I had the privilege of meeting Dan in 1996 when I was the pastor...