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    • Poet - Anne McCrary Sullivan
    • Joan Baranow - Poetry >
      • New Mother Again
      • SPRING BIRTHS
      • Things He Said
      • Grandma
    • Liana-Aliki >
      • Time Was Destilled
      • I'll move the trees
      • I hold your hands in mine
      • Our love recalls
    • Tayve Neese - Poetry >
      • Harvest
      • Radioactive Boars
      • Athena's Owl
    • Jane Creighton >
      • Cy Twombly in the Thicket of Light
      • Standing in Gallery 8
      • The Trees on Prairie Road
    • Elaine Fletcher Chapman >
      • ​IN THE GREENING OF THE RESERVOIR
      • LATELY, THE RESERVOIR, MY OCEAN
      • URGENCY
      • AFTER JANE KENYON'S
      • LEAVING PATACARA
      • ANTICIPATION OF BLOSSOMS
      • HE MARKED MY BODY
    • Melissa Studdard – Like a Bird >
      • When the Birdsong Rings Human
    • Cynthia Atkins >
      • When The Internet Is The Loneliest Place On The Planet
      • Anorexia Nervosa
      • God Is A Library
    • LISA RHOADES >
      • IN THE BRIGHT WORLD
      • THE LONG GRASS
      • WORDS AT HAND
    • Wendy Barker >
      • ON THE CHINESE SCROLL
      • WHAT SURFACES
      • BELOW THE SALT
      • NOW I LEARN
    • REBECCA PELKY >
      • RITA DEL GARDI & THE NIXON PIGEON VANISH
      • For Those Who Need the True Story
      • When the Sun Dances into the Sky
      • Spell for Northern Girls: To Make Sea Glass
    • Andrea Messineo >
      • THE BEGINNING OF LABOR
      • PILGRIMAGE
      • ALL-NIGHT DINER
    • Anne Babson >
      • AND THE GLORY OF THE LORD
      • BEHOLD, A VIRGIN SHALL CONCEIVE
      • THUS SAITH THE LORD (TRANSPOSED FOR SOPRANO)
      • THE RICH YOUNG RULER
    • Elizabeth Cohen - Poetry >
      • Goulash
      • The Cabbage
      • Aftermath
      • THE BOOK OF SPARROW
      • BIRDLESS
      • BIRD ELIXIR
      • BIRD LIGHT ART
    • Stephanie Kartalopoulos – Poet >
      • SLOW FAIL – Stephanie Kartalopoulos
      • EL FORTUNA – Stephanie Kartalopoulos
      • INHERITANCE – Stephanie Kartalopoulos
    • Leslie Contreras Schwartz - Poetry >
      • Interview - Leslie Contreras Schwartz
      • CENOTE - Leslie Contreras Schwartz
      • PAPER DOLL CHAIN - Leslie Contreras Schwartz
      • THE COMAL AND MY HANDS - Leslie Contreras Schwartz
      • THE SWIM TO ANTARCTICA - Leslie Contreras Schwartz
      • LABOR PANTOUM - Leslie Contreras Schwartz
      • POSTPARTUM - Leslie Contreras Schwartz
    • Melissa Studdard - I Ate the Cosmos >
      • A PRAYER
      • Melissa Studdard - Bio
      • WE ARE THE UNIVERSE
      • Motion Poems Video - I Ate the Cosmos for Breakfast
      • A Painting & Poet Connect
    • Dylan Krieger – Poet >
      • ghost porn
      • borderline
      • msg heard round the world
      • caption this conspiracy
    • Anne Tammel >
      • Anne Tammel ~ Poem ~ Amelia Earhart Drinks the Red Sea
      • Anne Tammel ~ Isa & Amelia
      • Anne Tammel ~ Amelia at the Red Sea
      • Anne Tammel ~ Poem ~ Endless: A Literate Passion
    • Britt Posmer - Poetry >
      • Britt Posmer - Poems from The Angel and the Heretic
    • David Brendan Hopes >
      • CHRISTMAS MORNING – HOPES
      • THE ANNUNCIATION – HOPES
      • ON THE ADORATION – HOPES
      • PENIEL – HOPES
    • Daniel Thomas – Poet >
      • WITHOUT THE MOCKINGBIRD – Daniel Thomas
      • HOME PREGNANCY TEST – Daniel Thomas
      • THE OLD BRIDGE – Daniel Thomas
    • Sean M. Conrey – Poet >
      • Apple – The Book of Trees
      • Ash – The Book of Trees
      • Hawthorn – The Book of Trees
    • Skip Renker >
      • SILENT REACH
      • A MOMENTARY OBEDIENCE
      • IN THE FEEL
    • Terry Lucas - Poetry >
      • PSALM '66 – SUMMER '63
      • SURRENDER
      • DHARMA RAIN
    • Jeffrey Davis - Poet >
      • 3 LAGOONS - Jeffrey Davis
      • COAT THIEF - Jeffrey Davis
      • DARKNESS - Jeffrey Davis
  • Saint Julian Press Poets II
    • Fred LaMotte >
      • Strangers & Pilgrims
      • Mustard Seed
      • Carnival
      • I KNOW MY DOG IS DREAMING
      • BUDDHISM 101
      • OPUS
      • GENTLE
      • The Heart Is A Field
      • A Little More Attention to the Breath
      • Ode to Blueberries
      • Morning Meditation
      • DON’T BE SATISFIED TOO SOON
      • Silence
      • Wanderers Welcome
      • ANAHATTA
      • What Both Names Mean
    • Kevin McGrath - Poetry >
      • FAME FIRST POEM
      • FAME SECOND POEM
      • FAME THIRD POEM
      • FAME FOURTH POEM
      • SONG–NINA
      • SONG–NORA
      • SONG–STELLA
      • SONG–TATIANA
      • EROS–ONE
      • EROS-TWO
      • EROS-TWO 34TH & 35TH
      • Rothko Murals Essay
      • THE MARINER SPEAKS
      • WINDWARD ~ ONE
      • WINDWARD ~ NINETEEN
      • WINDWARD ~ TWENTY SIX
      • WINDWARD ~ COVER ART
    • Ron Starbuck - Poetry >
      • Vesper
      • Natoma
      • St. John
      • US Center Chapel
      • Kýrie Eléison
      • Christmas Crèche
      • There Is Something About Being An Episcopalian
      • Rumi
      • Śūnyatā - Emptiness is Form; Form is Emptiness
      • VOICES
      • Storm Shadow
      • Trane Ascending
      • Advent
      • A Mockingbird's Song
      • There Are Times
      • Sandburg & Monroe (The Visit 1961)
      • Whenever You Watch Me
      • The Monarch
      • Park Avenue
      • Language of Poetry
      • Literature of Faith
    • Thomas Simmons >
      • Aliki Barnstone’s Art
      • NOW – SPLITTING APART
      • WHAT WAS THERE SILENT REVEL
      • IF BORGES’ LOVER
      • THE BODY OF HOPE
      • THE BODY AT REST
      • SADNESS
      • Benediction
      • These
      • Marriage
      • Unbetrothed
      • How It Was
      • Bethlehem
      • Star Light, Star Bright
    • Donna McKenzie - In a Tumbleweed Storm
    • David-Glen Smith >
      • David-Glen Smith ~ Saint Brendan and the Whale
      • David-Glen Smith ~ v.
      • David-Glen Smith ~ xii.
      • David-Glen Smith ~ Metamorphosis
      • Cover Art for Variations ~ Tread by Keith Perelli
  • Saint Julian Press Podcasts
  • Interconnections
  • Press Releases I
    • Press Release - Romance >
      • Romance Poem One
      • Romance Poem Two
      • Romance Poem Three
      • Romance Poem Four
      • Romance Poem Five
      • Romance Poem Six
    • Press Release Fox Dreams >
      • Poem One Fox Dreams
      • Poem Two Fox Dreams
      • Poem Three Fox Dreams
      • Poem Three Fox Dreams
    • Press Release - Rivers >
      • Rivers Poem One
      • Rivers Poem Two
      • Rivers Poem Three
      • Rivers Poem Four
    • Press Release - The Grief Committee Minutes >
      • Grief Poem One
      • Grief Poem Two
      • Grief Poem Three
      • Grief Poem Four
    • Press Release - Slow Walk Home >
      • Poems—I—Slow Walk Home
      • Poems—II—Slow Walk Home
      • Poems—III—Slow Walk Home
      • Poems—IV—Slow Walk Home
    • Press Release - The Tavern of Awakening >
      • Press Release - Die Taverne des Erwachens
      • German & English Poems
    • Press Release - Strangers & Pilgrims >
      • Strangers & Pilgrims Poem One
      • Strangers & Pilgrims Poem Two
      • Strangers & Pilgrims Poem Three
      • Strangers & Pilgrims Poem Four
    • Press Release - MATRIX >
      • Press Release - MATRIX Verses I
      • Press Release - MATRIX Verses II
      • Press Release - MATRIX Verses III
    • Press Release - Tools & Ornaments >
      • Tools & Ornaments First Poem
      • Tools & Ornaments Second Poem
      • Tools & Ornaments Third Poem
    • Press Release - WHY CROWS IN AFRICAN COUNTRIES HAVE WHITE COLOR
    • Press Release - A Slight Thing, Happiness
    • Press Release - Nectar
    • Press Release - evolution psalms
    • Press Release - A Pilgrimage of Churches
    • Press Release - Bone Skid, Bone Beauty
    • Press Release - Girl Left Behind
    • Press Release - Reservoir
    • Press Release - Song of the Republic
    • Press Release - Like A Bird
    • Still-Life With God – Press Release
    • Press Release - THE LONG GRASS
    • Press Release - MESSIAH
    • Press Release - GLOSS
    • Press Release - Horizon of the Dog Woman
    • Press Release - ALONE IN CHURCH
    • Press Release - In My Fathers's House Are Many Mansions >
      • St. John Lutheran Church Cover Art
      • St. John Lutheran Church History
    • Bring Your Nights With You
    • Press Release - The Patron Saint of Cauliflower
    • Press Release - AMULET
    • Press Release - Deep Pockets
    • Nightbloom and Cenote
    • Dreamland Trash II
    • The Book of Trees – Press Release
    • PENIEL – Press Release
    • Press Release – NOW
    • Press Release - Hunger for Salt
    • Press Release Savor Eternity by Fred LaMotte
  • Press Releases II
    • Press Release Mermaids >
      • Poem One Mermaids
      • Poem Two Mermaids
      • Poem Three Mermaids
      • Poem Four Mermaids
    • Press Release - Somewhere >
      • Somewhere Poem One
      • Somewhere Poem Two
      • Somewhere Poem Three
      • Somewhere Poem Four
    • Press Release - Famine Chair >
      • Poems–Famine Chair
    • Press Release - On Friendship >
      • Chapter-Intro
    • Press Release - Katy Bridge >
      • AT NIGHT
      • IN THE PAUSE OF MORNING
      • FATHER, SON AND DISHES IN THE SINK
      • IN BANFF
    • Press Release - Shards of Time >
      • ENTANGLEMENTS
      • SHARDS
      • GALLERY OF THOUGHTS
      • Arrival Of the Albatross
    • Press Release - The Telling >
      • Press Release - Telling First Poem
      • Press Release - Telling Second Poem
      • Press Release - Telling Third Poem
    • Press Release - Notes from a Marine Biologist's Daughter >
      • Poem One - Notes
      • Poem Two - Notes
      • Poem Three - Notes
      • Poem Four - Notes
    • Press Release - FAME
    • Press Release - Portrait Before Dark
    • Bird Light Press Release
    • Press Release – EROS
    • Press Release - DHARMA RAIN
    • Press Release - FUEGO by LESLIE CONTRERAS SCHWARTZ
    • Press Release - Windward by Kevin McGrath
    • Press Release - There is Something About Being and Episcopalian
    • Press Release - When Angels Are Born >
      • Recordings from When Angels Are Born
    • Press Release - COAT THIEF by Jeffrey Davis
    • Press Release - Bearing the Cast
    • Press Release - Endless: A Literate Passion
    • Press Release - I Ate the Cosmos for Breakfast
    • Press Release - The Angel and the Heretic by Britt Posmer
    • Press Release - Wounded Bud
    • Press Release - Variations on a Theme of Desire
  • Book Reviews
    • Democracy Awakening
    • The Abduction
    • King: A Life
    • The Book of John
    • And There Was Light
    • CITIZEN
    • Seeker and Monk
    • HOWLELUJAH
    • BIRNAM WOOD
    • BOSS BROAD
    • NIGHT LADDER
    • GIVING GODHEAD
    • YOGA MASS
    • NOW
    • EROS
    • DWELLING
    • LIFE IN SUSPENSION
    • BEYOND ELSEWHERE
    • Dreaming My Animal Selves
    • Tiferet Talk Interviews
    • Six Weeks to Yehidah
    • sometimes you sense the difference
  • Poetry–In–Film
  • Guest Authors I
    • William Miller >
      • Maha ‘ulepu Arch
      • Made In China
      • Reading Cheese
    • Peter Shefler >
      • The Japanese Red Maple I - The Seed
      • The Japanese Red Maple II - Fallen In The Frost
      • The Japanese Red Maple III - Seeking Shelter
    • Lois P. Jones and Peter Shefler
    • Susan Rogers >
      • The Origin is One
      • Kuan Yin
      • Awakening
    • George Jisho Robertson - Poetry >
      • passing moments [deceptive cadences]
      • veils of Persephone definitions of Demeter mysteries of Orpheus
      • Who Goes There
      • 3 Poems
  • Guest Authors II
    • Taoli-Ambika Talwar & Ron Starbuck >
      • Voices I
      • Voices II
      • Voices III
      • Voices IV
      • Voices V
      • Voices VI
      • Voices VII
      • Voices VIII
    • Anna Yin - Poetry >
      • Our Feelings Are Like a House
      • Present Is Beyond
      • The Night Garden
      • The Robin
      • Falling into Pieces
      • Window and Mirror
    • Carl Sandburg - Poetry >
      • Four Preludes on Playthings of the Wind
      • TO A CONTEMPORARY BUNKSHOOTER
    • W.S. Merwin - Yesterday
    • W.B. Yeats - Recordings
    • Caged Bird by Maya Angelou
    • Langston Hughes - Poetry for Black History Month
  • In My Father's House Are Many Mansions
  • Paul F. Knitter - Interview
    • Jesus: The Way That is Open to Other Ways by theologian Paul F. Knitter
    • Paul F. Knitter - Short Essay
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  • Saint Julian Press Newest Books
  • Saint Julian Press Poets I
    • Poet - Anne McCrary Sullivan
    • Joan Baranow - Poetry >
      • New Mother Again
      • SPRING BIRTHS
      • Things He Said
      • Grandma
    • Liana-Aliki >
      • Time Was Destilled
      • I'll move the trees
      • I hold your hands in mine
      • Our love recalls
    • Tayve Neese - Poetry >
      • Harvest
      • Radioactive Boars
      • Athena's Owl
    • Jane Creighton >
      • Cy Twombly in the Thicket of Light
      • Standing in Gallery 8
      • The Trees on Prairie Road
    • Elaine Fletcher Chapman >
      • ​IN THE GREENING OF THE RESERVOIR
      • LATELY, THE RESERVOIR, MY OCEAN
      • URGENCY
      • AFTER JANE KENYON'S
      • LEAVING PATACARA
      • ANTICIPATION OF BLOSSOMS
      • HE MARKED MY BODY
    • Melissa Studdard – Like a Bird >
      • When the Birdsong Rings Human
    • Cynthia Atkins >
      • When The Internet Is The Loneliest Place On The Planet
      • Anorexia Nervosa
      • God Is A Library
    • LISA RHOADES >
      • IN THE BRIGHT WORLD
      • THE LONG GRASS
      • WORDS AT HAND
    • Wendy Barker >
      • ON THE CHINESE SCROLL
      • WHAT SURFACES
      • BELOW THE SALT
      • NOW I LEARN
    • REBECCA PELKY >
      • RITA DEL GARDI & THE NIXON PIGEON VANISH
      • For Those Who Need the True Story
      • When the Sun Dances into the Sky
      • Spell for Northern Girls: To Make Sea Glass
    • Andrea Messineo >
      • THE BEGINNING OF LABOR
      • PILGRIMAGE
      • ALL-NIGHT DINER
    • Anne Babson >
      • AND THE GLORY OF THE LORD
      • BEHOLD, A VIRGIN SHALL CONCEIVE
      • THUS SAITH THE LORD (TRANSPOSED FOR SOPRANO)
      • THE RICH YOUNG RULER
    • Elizabeth Cohen - Poetry >
      • Goulash
      • The Cabbage
      • Aftermath
      • THE BOOK OF SPARROW
      • BIRDLESS
      • BIRD ELIXIR
      • BIRD LIGHT ART
    • Stephanie Kartalopoulos – Poet >
      • SLOW FAIL – Stephanie Kartalopoulos
      • EL FORTUNA – Stephanie Kartalopoulos
      • INHERITANCE – Stephanie Kartalopoulos
    • Leslie Contreras Schwartz - Poetry >
      • Interview - Leslie Contreras Schwartz
      • CENOTE - Leslie Contreras Schwartz
      • PAPER DOLL CHAIN - Leslie Contreras Schwartz
      • THE COMAL AND MY HANDS - Leslie Contreras Schwartz
      • THE SWIM TO ANTARCTICA - Leslie Contreras Schwartz
      • LABOR PANTOUM - Leslie Contreras Schwartz
      • POSTPARTUM - Leslie Contreras Schwartz
    • Melissa Studdard - I Ate the Cosmos >
      • A PRAYER
      • Melissa Studdard - Bio
      • WE ARE THE UNIVERSE
      • Motion Poems Video - I Ate the Cosmos for Breakfast
      • A Painting & Poet Connect
    • Dylan Krieger – Poet >
      • ghost porn
      • borderline
      • msg heard round the world
      • caption this conspiracy
    • Anne Tammel >
      • Anne Tammel ~ Poem ~ Amelia Earhart Drinks the Red Sea
      • Anne Tammel ~ Isa & Amelia
      • Anne Tammel ~ Amelia at the Red Sea
      • Anne Tammel ~ Poem ~ Endless: A Literate Passion
    • Britt Posmer - Poetry >
      • Britt Posmer - Poems from The Angel and the Heretic
    • David Brendan Hopes >
      • CHRISTMAS MORNING – HOPES
      • THE ANNUNCIATION – HOPES
      • ON THE ADORATION – HOPES
      • PENIEL – HOPES
    • Daniel Thomas – Poet >
      • WITHOUT THE MOCKINGBIRD – Daniel Thomas
      • HOME PREGNANCY TEST – Daniel Thomas
      • THE OLD BRIDGE – Daniel Thomas
    • Sean M. Conrey – Poet >
      • Apple – The Book of Trees
      • Ash – The Book of Trees
      • Hawthorn – The Book of Trees
    • Skip Renker >
      • SILENT REACH
      • A MOMENTARY OBEDIENCE
      • IN THE FEEL
    • Terry Lucas - Poetry >
      • PSALM '66 – SUMMER '63
      • SURRENDER
      • DHARMA RAIN
    • Jeffrey Davis - Poet >
      • 3 LAGOONS - Jeffrey Davis
      • COAT THIEF - Jeffrey Davis
      • DARKNESS - Jeffrey Davis
  • Saint Julian Press Poets II
    • Fred LaMotte >
      • Strangers & Pilgrims
      • Mustard Seed
      • Carnival
      • I KNOW MY DOG IS DREAMING
      • BUDDHISM 101
      • OPUS
      • GENTLE
      • The Heart Is A Field
      • A Little More Attention to the Breath
      • Ode to Blueberries
      • Morning Meditation
      • DON’T BE SATISFIED TOO SOON
      • Silence
      • Wanderers Welcome
      • ANAHATTA
      • What Both Names Mean
    • Kevin McGrath - Poetry >
      • FAME FIRST POEM
      • FAME SECOND POEM
      • FAME THIRD POEM
      • FAME FOURTH POEM
      • SONG–NINA
      • SONG–NORA
      • SONG–STELLA
      • SONG–TATIANA
      • EROS–ONE
      • EROS-TWO
      • EROS-TWO 34TH & 35TH
      • Rothko Murals Essay
      • THE MARINER SPEAKS
      • WINDWARD ~ ONE
      • WINDWARD ~ NINETEEN
      • WINDWARD ~ TWENTY SIX
      • WINDWARD ~ COVER ART
    • Ron Starbuck - Poetry >
      • Vesper
      • Natoma
      • St. John
      • US Center Chapel
      • Kýrie Eléison
      • Christmas Crèche
      • There Is Something About Being An Episcopalian
      • Rumi
      • Śūnyatā - Emptiness is Form; Form is Emptiness
      • VOICES
      • Storm Shadow
      • Trane Ascending
      • Advent
      • A Mockingbird's Song
      • There Are Times
      • Sandburg & Monroe (The Visit 1961)
      • Whenever You Watch Me
      • The Monarch
      • Park Avenue
      • Language of Poetry
      • Literature of Faith
    • Thomas Simmons >
      • Aliki Barnstone’s Art
      • NOW – SPLITTING APART
      • WHAT WAS THERE SILENT REVEL
      • IF BORGES’ LOVER
      • THE BODY OF HOPE
      • THE BODY AT REST
      • SADNESS
      • Benediction
      • These
      • Marriage
      • Unbetrothed
      • How It Was
      • Bethlehem
      • Star Light, Star Bright
    • Donna McKenzie - In a Tumbleweed Storm
    • David-Glen Smith >
      • David-Glen Smith ~ Saint Brendan and the Whale
      • David-Glen Smith ~ v.
      • David-Glen Smith ~ xii.
      • David-Glen Smith ~ Metamorphosis
      • Cover Art for Variations ~ Tread by Keith Perelli
  • Saint Julian Press Podcasts
  • Interconnections
  • Press Releases I
    • Press Release - Romance >
      • Romance Poem One
      • Romance Poem Two
      • Romance Poem Three
      • Romance Poem Four
      • Romance Poem Five
      • Romance Poem Six
    • Press Release Fox Dreams >
      • Poem One Fox Dreams
      • Poem Two Fox Dreams
      • Poem Three Fox Dreams
      • Poem Three Fox Dreams
    • Press Release - Rivers >
      • Rivers Poem One
      • Rivers Poem Two
      • Rivers Poem Three
      • Rivers Poem Four
    • Press Release - The Grief Committee Minutes >
      • Grief Poem One
      • Grief Poem Two
      • Grief Poem Three
      • Grief Poem Four
    • Press Release - Slow Walk Home >
      • Poems—I—Slow Walk Home
      • Poems—II—Slow Walk Home
      • Poems—III—Slow Walk Home
      • Poems—IV—Slow Walk Home
    • Press Release - The Tavern of Awakening >
      • Press Release - Die Taverne des Erwachens
      • German & English Poems
    • Press Release - Strangers & Pilgrims >
      • Strangers & Pilgrims Poem One
      • Strangers & Pilgrims Poem Two
      • Strangers & Pilgrims Poem Three
      • Strangers & Pilgrims Poem Four
    • Press Release - MATRIX >
      • Press Release - MATRIX Verses I
      • Press Release - MATRIX Verses II
      • Press Release - MATRIX Verses III
    • Press Release - Tools & Ornaments >
      • Tools & Ornaments First Poem
      • Tools & Ornaments Second Poem
      • Tools & Ornaments Third Poem
    • Press Release - WHY CROWS IN AFRICAN COUNTRIES HAVE WHITE COLOR
    • Press Release - A Slight Thing, Happiness
    • Press Release - Nectar
    • Press Release - evolution psalms
    • Press Release - A Pilgrimage of Churches
    • Press Release - Bone Skid, Bone Beauty
    • Press Release - Girl Left Behind
    • Press Release - Reservoir
    • Press Release - Song of the Republic
    • Press Release - Like A Bird
    • Still-Life With God – Press Release
    • Press Release - THE LONG GRASS
    • Press Release - MESSIAH
    • Press Release - GLOSS
    • Press Release - Horizon of the Dog Woman
    • Press Release - ALONE IN CHURCH
    • Press Release - In My Fathers's House Are Many Mansions >
      • St. John Lutheran Church Cover Art
      • St. John Lutheran Church History
    • Bring Your Nights With You
    • Press Release - The Patron Saint of Cauliflower
    • Press Release - AMULET
    • Press Release - Deep Pockets
    • Nightbloom and Cenote
    • Dreamland Trash II
    • The Book of Trees – Press Release
    • PENIEL – Press Release
    • Press Release – NOW
    • Press Release - Hunger for Salt
    • Press Release Savor Eternity by Fred LaMotte
  • Press Releases II
    • Press Release Mermaids >
      • Poem One Mermaids
      • Poem Two Mermaids
      • Poem Three Mermaids
      • Poem Four Mermaids
    • Press Release - Somewhere >
      • Somewhere Poem One
      • Somewhere Poem Two
      • Somewhere Poem Three
      • Somewhere Poem Four
    • Press Release - Famine Chair >
      • Poems–Famine Chair
    • Press Release - On Friendship >
      • Chapter-Intro
    • Press Release - Katy Bridge >
      • AT NIGHT
      • IN THE PAUSE OF MORNING
      • FATHER, SON AND DISHES IN THE SINK
      • IN BANFF
    • Press Release - Shards of Time >
      • ENTANGLEMENTS
      • SHARDS
      • GALLERY OF THOUGHTS
      • Arrival Of the Albatross
    • Press Release - The Telling >
      • Press Release - Telling First Poem
      • Press Release - Telling Second Poem
      • Press Release - Telling Third Poem
    • Press Release - Notes from a Marine Biologist's Daughter >
      • Poem One - Notes
      • Poem Two - Notes
      • Poem Three - Notes
      • Poem Four - Notes
    • Press Release - FAME
    • Press Release - Portrait Before Dark
    • Bird Light Press Release
    • Press Release – EROS
    • Press Release - DHARMA RAIN
    • Press Release - FUEGO by LESLIE CONTRERAS SCHWARTZ
    • Press Release - Windward by Kevin McGrath
    • Press Release - There is Something About Being and Episcopalian
    • Press Release - When Angels Are Born >
      • Recordings from When Angels Are Born
    • Press Release - COAT THIEF by Jeffrey Davis
    • Press Release - Bearing the Cast
    • Press Release - Endless: A Literate Passion
    • Press Release - I Ate the Cosmos for Breakfast
    • Press Release - The Angel and the Heretic by Britt Posmer
    • Press Release - Wounded Bud
    • Press Release - Variations on a Theme of Desire
  • Book Reviews
    • Democracy Awakening
    • The Abduction
    • King: A Life
    • The Book of John
    • And There Was Light
    • CITIZEN
    • Seeker and Monk
    • HOWLELUJAH
    • BIRNAM WOOD
    • BOSS BROAD
    • NIGHT LADDER
    • GIVING GODHEAD
    • YOGA MASS
    • NOW
    • EROS
    • DWELLING
    • LIFE IN SUSPENSION
    • BEYOND ELSEWHERE
    • Dreaming My Animal Selves
    • Tiferet Talk Interviews
    • Six Weeks to Yehidah
    • sometimes you sense the difference
  • Poetry–In–Film
  • Guest Authors I
    • William Miller >
      • Maha ‘ulepu Arch
      • Made In China
      • Reading Cheese
    • Peter Shefler >
      • The Japanese Red Maple I - The Seed
      • The Japanese Red Maple II - Fallen In The Frost
      • The Japanese Red Maple III - Seeking Shelter
    • Lois P. Jones and Peter Shefler
    • Susan Rogers >
      • The Origin is One
      • Kuan Yin
      • Awakening
    • George Jisho Robertson - Poetry >
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YOGA MASS

EMBODYING CHRIST CONSCIOUSNESS

 

By Gena Davis

 

SAINT JULIAN PRESS

BOOK REVIEW

from RON STARBUCK

 


 

YOGA MASS

EMBODYING CHRIST CONSCIOUSNESS

By Gena Davis

 

SAINT JULIAN PRESS BOOK REVIEW ~ RON STARBUCK

 

 

“This is my body” are the opening words you will find in the introduction to YOGA MASS ~ Embodying Christ Consciousness. The words are a reminder and a remembrance of the same ones spoken by Jesus at the Last Supper. – Then he took a loaf of bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to them, saying, “This is my body, which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me.”  ~  (Luke 22:19 – NRSV)

 

These are also the words spoken during Eucharist – The Great Thanksgiving. One of the major sacraments celebrated within the Episcopal Church and other Sacramental–Christian traditions. A sacrament is an invocation of and an encounter with the Holy Spirit – God’s Holy Presence. Sacraments are “outward and visible signs of inward and spiritual grace.” YOGA as a prayerful divine practice (praxis) may also be experienced as a sacrament, where someone encounters God’s presence.

 

HOW do we see the body? How do we imagine it as something holy and whole? How do we participate in an interfaith dialogue that honors our own faith and the faith of others? How do we learn from another faith and from one another too? And how can we share our faith in a – Creative – Healing – Wholesome – Holy – Sacramental Way – that opens up new spaces and possibilities within us and in the communities where we live?

 

SPACES we may discover within the vast eternal openness across all creation, where God rests and where we experience God who is and always has been ~ the Alpha & Omega. God who as Spirit – Truth – Counselor – Comforter – Healer – Teacher – Redeemer – Revealer – Reconciler, who rests within the sacred spaces & openness inside us each where the Divine Mystery of God dwells. God who is real, who is responsive, who is love – compassion – empathy, who is everlasting, and whose presence is actively at work within the world across many faiths and sacred traditions.

 

As a Christian, or someone from any faith or spiritual tradition, you will find a response to these questions and thoughts in YOGA MASS ~ Embodying Christ Consciousness by The Reverend Gena Davis, with a forward by –The Very Reverend J. Pittman McGehee. The author is an Episcopalian and an ordained Episcopal priest in the Diocese of Texas, serving Grace Episcopal Church in Houston. She is also someone who has been actively engaged in an interfaith dialogue, and in helping humanity to understand what this means.

 

The 21st century is fully upon us now, humanity as a whole is encountering pluralism and multiculturalism at a faster pace – unknown and unseen before in human history. We see this at work across the world, on the Internet, in the daily news cycles, through massive human migrations from one place to another, and across faiths where people are coming together in an interfaith dialogue. The enduring beauty of this book is how it offers to the faithful a new paradigm, a new creation, and a new way of being. It offers us an opportunity to celebrate humanity’s many interconnections by learning from one another in an open interfaith dialogue. There is nothing to fear here, and everything to gain. I am reminded of this verse from 1 John 4:18 (NRSV): “There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear…”

 

AS 21st Century Christians, many of us, are being called to reimagine and reframe the “Good News” of the Gospel into a deeper understanding of the Divine Mystery and how the Holy Spirit is actively at work within the world. And how the Holy Spirit is calling us into a new and enduring relationship with one another. What many of us have discovered is a revelation, an unveiling and revealing of God as Spirit & Truth, found in an interfaith dialogue. A dialogue that is radically open, radically inclusive, and yet, grounded in the historical and orthodox tradition of the church.

 

As theologian, Paul F. Knitter, once elaborated in a sermon quoting philosopher–theologian–colleague John Cobb: "Jesus is the way, that is open to other ways. Jesus is not the way that excludes, overpowers, demeans other ways; rather he is the way that opens us to, connects us with, and calls us to relate to other ways in a process that can best be described as ‘dialogue.’”1

 

In her book, YOGA MASS ~ Embodying Christ Consciousness, Gena Davis, offers traditional and orthodox Christians something new, a refreshed vision and mission for the 21st century and the people of this century. By bring together, two ancient spiritual traditions and practices (praxis), she is returning something timeworn and fresh to the world. She has given us a deeper understanding of both the old and the new grounded in Christ, in an expanded vision, a new vocabulary, a new liturgy, and a renewing sacrament.

 

She has given us a new way to encounter and appreciate what we may learn from one another across spiritual traditions and faiths. She has given us a great gift of faith, because she has come to know the presence of God in whom “we live and move and have our being” at work within the world. God, as Christ taught us, consistently calls us to be in a healing and loving relationship with one another. And to realize that this is true for all of creation, where everything that is, everything that comes to be, and continues to be, arises out of our relationships with other beings.1 This is what happens throughout all of creation, across an eternal space, in what is known and unknown, seen and unseen, visible and invisible – as it arises across worlds without end.

 

"You are the light of the world. A city built on a hill cannot be hidden. No one after lighting a lamp puts it under the bushel basket, but on the lamp stand, and it gives light to all in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father in heaven." - Matt. 5:14-16

 

“All who find freedom from clinging to desire, sin, separation, and sorrow, free from the incessant flow of their thoughts, are like shining lights reaching final liberation in the world.” - The Dhammapada 89

 

"The light of the body is the eye: if therefore your eye be sound, your whole body shall be full of light." - Matthew 6:22 "-

 

In his final words under the Sala trees, the Buddha gave us these words. “Make of yourself a light.”

 

 

PEACE ~ SHANTI ~ SHALOM ~ SALAAM ~ NAMASTE ~ AMEN

 

 

RON STARBUCK

PUBLISHER–EDITOR

SAINT JULIAN PRESS, INC.

 

 

 

Notes & Book:

1. Jesus: The Way That is Open to Other Ways ~ A Sermon by Paul F. Knitter

2. YOGA MASS: Embodying Christ Consciousness

by Gena Davis (Author), J. Pittman McGehee (Author)

Paperback: 302 pages

Publisher: BalboaPress (April 21, 2017)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 1504377753

ISBN-13: 978-1504377751


 

Gena Davis is an Episcopal priest, yoga educator, and founder of YogaMass, serving a mission congregation in Houston, Texas. Her ministry is grounded in contemplative practices. She is a spiritual director, meditation facilitator, retreat leader, and a Benedictine Oblate with the World Community for Christian Meditation. Finding herself in the sacraments of her faith tradition and on the yoga mat, she dreams for all to discover their true essence.

 

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RON STARBUCK is an Episcopalian, a Poet and Writer, and author of There Is Something About Being An Episcopalian, When Angels Are Born, and Wheels Turning Inward, three rich collections of poetry, following a poet’s mythic and spiritual journey that crosses easily onto the paths of many contemplative traditions.

He has been deeply engaged in an Interfaith-Buddhist-Christian dialogue for many years, and holds a lifelong interest in literature, poetry, Christian mysticism, comparative religion, theology, and various forms of contemplative practice.

He has been a contributing writer for Parabola Magazine. And has had poems and essays published in Tiferet: A Journal of Spiritual Literature, an interview and poem in The Criterion: An Online International Journal in English, The Enchanting Verses Literary Review, ONE from MillerWords (Feb. 2016), and Pirene's Fountain, Volume 7 Issue 15, from Glass Lyre Press (Oct. 2014). A collection of essays, poems, short stories, and audio recordings are available on the Saint Julian Press, Inc., website under Interconnections.

 

RON STARBUCK


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