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Dec 8, 2024 | 
3rdactmagazine.com | Robert Hirschfield |David Nemetz
I met Sharon two years ago. She was bent over Virginia Woolf’s The Waves. We were waiting in the yard of a residential building in lower Manhattan for our tai chi class to begin. My brain froze with every instructed movement shift. Her bad knee gimped heroically in an effort to keep pace. I never went back. We spoke a bit afterwards. We discovered we both wrote poetry. She mentioned the magic name, Frank O’ Hara, and I felt a door open.
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Jun 6, 2024 | 
3rdactmagazine.com | Robert Hirschfield |Victoria Starr Marshall
, 88, teacher and poet, has stayed young by traveling far into the places where children go with their imagination and where he meets them with his. This long journey is the extension of his early poetry, which often dealt with childhood and the beginnings of things.
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Mar 3, 2024 | 
3rdactmagazine.com | Robert Hirschfield |Victoria Starr Marshall
It’s indecent to stalk the dead poet. I know that. Bill Kenney, 89 when he died, was the spring breeze in winter. Dying of cancer, he joked dryly, waxed humbly in his haiku about the smallness of our earthly moments, which made him seem impossibly large standing all alone out there on the cliff edge.
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Jan 23, 2024 | 
teachersandwritersmagazine.org | Robert Hirschfield
Haiku might be described as a long unbroken love song to nature going back hundreds of years.
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Jan 12, 2024 | 
christiancentury.org | Benjamin Dueholm |Julian DeShazier |Philip Jenkins |Robert Hirschfield
To receive these posts by email each Monday, sign up. For more commentary on this week's readings, see the Reflections on the Lectionary page. For full-text access to all articles, subscribe to the Century. Is it possible to read Paul as an early exponent of a wellness ethic for sexuality? As a preacher, I tend to skirt much of what the apostle has to say about sex. I have many reasons for this, some of which are defensible.
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Jan 12, 2024 | 
christiancentury.org | Julian DeShazier |Philip Jenkins |Robert Hirschfield |Alejandra Oliva
(Century illustration / Source images: public domain & Unsplash) We live in horrifying times, times that feel like they demand a response from us. It seems like every week there’s something new—an outbreak of violence, a report that puts climate change further and further into apocalyptic territory. These feel like everyday things, at least in part because many of them are ongoing, with no inciting event to pin your concern on. In other words: horror itself feels like business as usual.
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Jan 11, 2024 | 
christiancentury.org | Philip Jenkins |Julian DeShazier |Robert Hirschfield |Rachel Hoskins
(Century illustration / Source images: Billy Pasco and Johannes Krupinski on Unsplash) The first time i saw double is beyond my recollection. “Her left eye is too strong,” a doctor told my parents when I was four years old. “It’s blinding her right. It has to be corrected.” He called my condition strabismus, something like a crossed eye. You’ve likely seen it: the eye turns out or in. Mine turned up and to the left. To correct it required surgery.
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Jan 8, 2024 | 
christiancentury.org | Philip Jenkins |Julian DeShazier |Robert Hirschfield |Deborah Laker
TotalEnergies, with the support from the Ugandan and the Tanzanian governments, are building the world’s largest heated crude oil pipeline. Once completed, the East Africa Crude Oil Pipelinewill span from the oil-rich shores of Lake Albert in western Uganda and end 900 miles south at the Tanzanian Port of Tanga on the Indian Ocean.
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Jan 7, 2024 | 
christiancentury.org | Philip Jenkins |Julian DeShazier |Robert Hirschfield
Michael Curry, presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, underwent surgery on January 6 to treat a reoccurrence of the subdural hematoma he experienced in early December 2023. The surgery was successful, and updates on his condition will be provided as they become available, according to a press release. Earlier on the morning of January 6, a separate release said he’d been re-hospitalized.
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Jan 4, 2024 | 
christiancentury.org | Benjamin Dueholm |Amy Becker |Liddy Barlow |Robert Hirschfield
Mother, why is Father dying on the cross in our cornfield? Read our latest issue or browse back issues. the image startles the way many of Raymond Roseliep’s images startle. His association between the figure and the cornfield underscores Ezra Pound’s poetic dictum, “Make it new.” As dark and as stark as that image is, a Roseliep haiku can also be unapologetically whimsical:hole in my sock letting spring inRoseliep was born in Farley, Iowa, in 1917 and died in 1983.
