Chad Lakies

CFP: The Soul

THE SOUL St Anne’s College, University of Oxford 28 June – 1 July 2013 Ever since Descartes, the soul understood as immediate mental consciousness has tended to stand as a last bastion securing religious belief against naturalistic reduction. But today that bastion is under assault from the ‘new atheists’. However, the bastion is proving very […]

Maryanne Hannan

Longing

In “Longing,” Maryann Hannan examines the contrast between a psalm’s proclamation of trust and her own unending spiritual desires.

Brian G. Phipps

On Awakening

A poem by Brian G. Phipps that dwells between waking and sleeping, life and death.

Matthew Brouwer

Blues President

In this spoken-word poem, Matthew Brouwer riffs on his ideal presidential candidate, a leader who knows the blues.