Transport
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Transport

This is a quiet sort of poem, perhaps my favorite one to read aloud. It’s a poem about death, that last great transformation, and the ease and loveliness with which Christians are meant to approach it.

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Why I Go to Church
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Why I Go to Church

Church is a lot of things for me: the center of my social and artistic life, the place I practice my actual talents, for music, for leadership—but I love it in part because I’m a weakling who can hardly stand to stand up most mornings and the church was made for, and needs, people like me.

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Raven Steals the Sun
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Raven Steals the Sun

Being a myth, the raven story can change its contours with each telling, but so long as certain events take place, it remains the raven cycle. It is still itself, you might say, in whatever form it takes.

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