Poems

MARK AS WRITER

After a hundred years of scrutinyAnd polemic, best and worst,Scholars peaceably agreeThat Mark,To invent a normOf outline for the Gospel form,Was first.

EASTER TRIUMPH

Was he a king then?

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A spiritual perspective on politics

We've gathered a variety of guests for this series, each with wonderful spiritual insights and proof that these spiritual ideas are effective—even for something that looms large, like politics.

From Pregnancy and childbirth

For expectant mothers

The more fully we accept the spiritual nature of birth, the more effortlessly we can demonstrate that nothing has occurred from which one needs to recover.

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A PRAYER

Dear Father, oh, forgive them.

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LET SILENCE SPEAK

He answered Pilate not a word.

DISTRIBUTION

Our bread of Truth we now send forth to heal;Our wine, Love's inspiration, we now shareWith all receptive strangers everywhere,Through distribution of the Word.

OUR READING ROOM

We welcome all; within this quiet roomFor us the table of the feast is spread,And placed thereon abundantly is bread,Sustenance from heaven; he to whomThis bread is given shall be satisfied.

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A spiritual perspective on politics

We've gathered a variety of guests for this series, each with wonderful spiritual insights and proof that these spiritual ideas are effective—even for something that looms large, like politics.

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Anthology of classic articles

Listen to this inspiring collection of articles.

From Church

The demand for church

I like to think of each church that grows up in a community as that community's answered prayer for the presence of the saving Christ—the message of God's love for humanity.

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From Overcoming grief

What death does not do

We go on gaining moment by moment in the understanding that God is the only real Life.

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AT TESTING TIMES

Acceptable to God, sole source of wisdom,Let my conclusions and responses be,Relying not on chance or human judgment,But based on Principle unerringly.

SPACE-AGE QUESTION

What will men do, out in the starry deepsOf far-flung universe, if they meet lifeIn form unlike their own?

ASPIRATION

I am not a Mary;yet I aspire to be—to change my Martha naturefor loving grace to freefrom earthly tasks that cumber,from worldly cares, and findsweet peace in understandingmy God, eternal Mind.

THE HEIR

The Father has given to the sonnot sober suit, not uniform,but a many-colored coatall fresh, all gay.

BIRTHDAYS

Why mark a date that never was?

"THE LORD GOD OMNIPOTENT REIGNETH"

Not in a rocket rests the powerTo shape or shrink the universe.