FEBRUARY 2008

the messiah formerly known as jesus
An MHP Interview with Tom Breen
“Today’s Christianity is first and foremost dynamic,” writes Tom Breen in the new book The Messiah Formerly Known as Jesus. “It is not merely something people are guilted into doing on Sundays by their nagging, churchy spouses.”
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finding holy places
by Bryce Alan Flurie
They are down the road, inside forsaken areas, by way of happenstance, in communities, through looking glasses and beside untucked woods. They enter our sight lines and just as quickly leave out to envelop another. Shadows, color, lines silhouetted.
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what you are, the world is
by Rupert M. Loydell
The time, the self, the frame, the eraser.

Shapes and shadows, the margins as centre;

dark pictures the sum of their parts.
poetry/Entries/2008/2/4_what_you_are,_the_world_is.html
 
carter baptists
by Zach Kincaid
The week bumped up against the start of Lent. We began our road trip to Atlanta which sits a few hours north of us. The air felt crisp and expecting. Uneventful, we drove to the outskirts, parked the car, and tracked in by way of MARTA. The heart of the city.
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sonic boom
by Alice Friman
Last week my husband found out

the lump in his neck was a wait

and we’ll watch it, keep track of

on a chart. Adam’s apple’s

younger brother, Pip the Bomb --
poetry/Entries/2008/2/4_sonic_boom.html
 

cimabue
by Rupert M. Loydell
Memory makes a noise

like paint peeling,

dark flood water

falling away.
poetry/Entries/2008/2/4_cimabue.html
 
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See the first in a photo series entitled FINDING HOLY SPACES by Bryce Alan Flurie

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touch c. s. lewis
with Important Lewis Scholars
MHP is working with HarperCollins to develop a new C.S. Lewis blog associated with cslewis.com. We encourage you to check it. (The left image is from Lewis’s first edition of The Pilgrim’s Regress.)
http://booksbycslewis.blogspot.com/