This is the prayer: Accept things as they are. It was all meant to be.
Joe Hoover, S.J.
Joe Hoover, S.J., is America’s poetry editor and producer of a new film, “The Allegory.”
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Poems for a Pandemic
Poetry is an attempt to say the unsayable, to capture what ultimately eludes.
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In the Wake of the Heartbeat Bills
Would you take your daughter there,
the unholiest there you guess
you could go?
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Praise, reverence and serve the God of coronavirus
You are called to become obedient enough to serve the God who invites you to do seemingly very little. The God who himself apparently does nothing as the disease spreads.
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Tiny scriptures of truth: America’s 2019 poetry roundup
New American poetry that spans the globe.
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The 2019 Foley poetry contest: Metaphors so simple and clear
Entrants to this year’s contest included poems about human trafficking, the Mueller Report, priestly abuse and screen addiction.
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Poet Gregory Pardlo on growing up with a complicated father
Greg Pardlo’s new memoir clips quickly along and burdens the reader with almost no slow moments.
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Dear priests who improvise at Mass: Please don’t.
Adding more words will not make Mass “better.” If you cleanly speak the words as they are, if you let them flow through you, the people in the pews may hear the Mass as they have never heard it before. You do not need to do more. It’s not about you.
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If Jeff Bezos wants to be ‘disruptive’, he should listen to biblical prophets
Entrepreneurs like Jeff Bezos talk about being “innovators” and “disrupters,” but really they are not—not in truly world-shaking ways. Imagine if they announced to the world: We are doubling the wages of our warehouse workers, increasing benefits. We are becoming, for God’s sake, a cooperative.
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There goes rhymin’ Wiman
In Christian Wiman’s new book, all easy answers about how spirituality informs the arts and vice versa are given fierce interrogation.