Jesus’ Baptism – A Modern Retelling
I followed Jesus one day. It was just a few years ago in the Fall, before Jesus became better known. I first met him through a mutual acquaintance—we both happened to be at a Concordia football game with a group of…
Autumn Parish
We walk a route on streets we name and know,past gardens tucked and put to winter’s bed,through brilliant leaves that dance and drift aglowand carpet now the homeward path we tread.The time and space of life thus circumscribed,we live our span…
Thanksgiving in Threes
A prayer for thanksgiving. O Living God, you who are Three-in-One and One-in-Three, we give thanks and praise for your abundant gifts—your mercy and grace. We give thanks… For friends who challenge, bless, and care.For books that confound, enlighten, and teach.For…
Sonnet 1 – Billings Lake
Retreating glaciers carved the earth below,to leave a quilt of lakes upon the land,where winding threads of river shining flow,and birch and elm and pine take up their stand.Canoe, our passage in this ancient world,On bright-eyed morn, the water dark and…
charlevoix summer
charlevoix summerwith c. taylor Hopkins’ dawn-drawn falcon,bright-eyed searcherover roadside field and shrubs,settles on treetop branch.Slate-blue wings foldto dappled feathered chest,a telltale klee klee kleecalls the sun from rest. Grasses and wildflowers,gloriously obliviousspread over hill, down road,become home for mole and mouse.Viper’s-bugloss,…
Public Proclamation. Yikes!
Hazel Motes is the main character in Flannery O’Connor’s 1952 novel Wise Blood. Hazel Motes is a street preacher of the kind that is rare today and perhaps hard for us to imagine. He stands outside movie theatres, and on the…
Month of Crows
Crows have long held a fascination for humans. My own interest in them goes back to those morning walks to the bus stop. In my mind, September is the month of return to school and also the month of crows.
Bonjour-Hi
A few weeks ago I made a telephone call to a courthouse here in Quebec. It was an important matter, involving questions I rarely have to think about in English, let alone in French. I asked the Clerk whether we could…
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