(The Conversation) — The famous biblical book alludes to God only once. Historically, though, most interpreters have argued the poem’s about love between the divine and his people. (The Conversation) ...

These four come immediately to mind. But another favorite of the Jesuits, I have learned, is the Pulitzer Prize-winning Mary Oliver, 80 this year, who is of no declared religion, but whose poems are ...

so I can knit a scarf for you, my dear, A scarf wherein my self, my love, will dwell. If lamb is gift and giver, sealed since birth and Martha’s yarn is part of Martha, too, as well my scarf contains ...