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A lovely poem for Advent by Mary Oliver…This poem is found in the collection:
Paperback: Beacon, 2007
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Also, see Three Advent Poems by Madeleine L’Engle
Today is the birthday of Madeleine L’Engle… She would have been 95 today.I recently discovered this new ebook containing an essay of hers on children’s literature…
“Do I Dare Disturb the Universe?” is Madeleine L’Engle’s spirited defense of the responsibility of children’s literature to confront difficult questions, as she did in all her work, particularly her masterpiece A Wrinkle in Time. This e-book contains the text of her famous speech as well as her introduction to the twenty-fifth anniversary of A Wrinkle in Time and a facsimile of a chapter from the original manuscript with Madeleine’s notations.
This ebook is essential reading for fans of Madeleine’s work!!!
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New book excerpt for the holiday season…
IVP Books, 2012 Buy now: [ Amazon ] [ Kindle ]
You can also read her well-known Advent poem “After Annunciation” here…
* * * Books by Madeleine L’Engle
Ready for SilenceFrom The Ordering of Love: The New and Collected Poems of Madeleine L’Engle [ Kindle ]
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A Vision of Thriving Christian Fellowship
A Feature Review of
Paperback: Upper Room Books, 2012.
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Reviewed by Emma Stencil.
Like the Lenten season before the celebration of Easter, Advent was traditionally a time of fasting and thrift within the early Christian churches. Today it should be a time to quiet one’s mind and prepare one’s body for the coming of Christ. In the celebration of Advent, we recognize the first coming of Christ as a child in a manger, visited and worshipped by shepherds and wise men. We also recognize and ponder Christ’s second coming at the Resurrection, when He will return in glory and power to save His followers and to judge His enemies. The very name of the season, “Advent,” was borrowed from the Latin word adventus, which refers to the grand ceremony in ancient Rome in which a conquering emperor was welcomed into a city as part of a military campaign. Christ’s second coming is to be the triumphant entry of the king into His transformed city. The season of Advent provides Christians with a time to ponder this great and terrible moment that all of time is racing to meet.
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The next ERB print issue is at the printer now and will be mailed next week…
Featuring an essay on the Mexican poet-prophet Javier Sicilia and an exclusive first look at English translations of three of his poems. Interview with Rachel Held Evans. And perhaps our best lineup of reviews to date: new books by Wendell Berry, Gerhard Lohfink, Barbara Kingsolver, John Howard Yoder, Slavoj Žižek,and MORE!
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Christmas
George Herbert
Christmas (I)
After all pleasures as I rid one day,
My horse and I, both tired, body and mind,
With full cry of affections, quite astray;
I took up the next inn I could find.
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Advent offers us the opportunity to reflect on the meaning of Christ’s coming to earth, and in this issue, we have focused particularly on Christ’s coming as the “prince of peace,” and what that might mean for us as his followers. This issue features interviews with Jamie Arpin-Ricci and Dorothy Ranaghan, an essay by Ragan Sutterfield on the discipline and joys of handwriting letters, our Best Books of 2011 list, reviews by L.L. Barkat, John Nugent and much more!Read the table of contents here (PDF)…
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Nativity
John Donne
Immensity cloistered in thy dear womb,
Now leaves His well-belov’d imprisonment,
There He hath made Himself to His intent
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