Of course, for many people the supernatural parts of religion are super important, but I think poetry does that same job. I know, it’s not an exact fit, but hear me out.

T he greatest writing in human history has been religious writing—though most modern poetry reflects little sense of it. In a natural desire to show that poets and religion have been on speaking ...

The book of poems, "Rhythmic Religious Logic," was written by the Rev. Joseph Henry Hankerson and other preachers who inspired Hankerson in the late 1800s and early 1900s. It was originally ...

A cluster of recurring images, symbols, and metaphors mark Thomas’s religious poems: silence, prayer, kneeling, waiting, watching, empty churches, a wound, the pierced side of Jesus-God-the ...

Shortly after winning the 2013 National Book Award for her second collection of poems, “Incarnadine,” Portland’s Mary Szybist told the Paris Review that she started writing poetry when she ...

My writing during these past five years is filled with memories of my long journey with God over a lifetime; but very ...

How do we keep the faith without a religion? Is it possible to be spiritual without being believers? Bestselling author Roger Housden ("Ten Poems To Change Your Life") explains how.

Poet Christian Wiman reflects on illness and faith in 'Zero at the Bone' Christian Wiman says he's no longer afraid of dying. "When death hangs over you for a while, you start to forget about it ...

More than a quarter-century ago, Rachel Barenblat was a 10-year-old budding poet relishing the moment her first creation was published. It was a simple, rhyming piece on the human struggle to ...

Barry Spurr is Professor of Poetry at the University of Sydney. His most recent book is "Anglo-Catholic in Religion": T.S. Eliot and Christianity (Lutterworth, 2010). Posted 12 Oct 2011 12 Oct ...