Fanny Howe

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Fanny Howe is the author of more than thirty works of poetry and prose, including The Needle’s Eye, Come and See, Indivisible, and The Winter Sun. “The First Church” appears in her new collection Love and I (Graywolf Press).

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Poems | From ‘The First Church’

They walked the mote. / Brown grasses pansies roses white clematis and hellebore. / Glad to live below and have mercy and no power

By Fanny Howe

October 4, 2019

Poetry

Spirituality

Theology

Must Reads

Politics

Global Protests & Income Inequality

This year seems unusual, both for the number and scale of protests across the world. What links them is the growing demand for greater income equality.

By The Editors

November 21, 2019

Religion

Preeminent?

The bishops’ insistence on abortion as the preeminent political issue reveals their resistance to Pope Francis’s call to serve the common good in all its complexity.

By Matthew Sitman

November 21, 2019

Culture

St. Ephrem’s Lament

The territory along the Syrian-Turkish border is the ancestral homeland of an ancient tradition of Aramaic-speaking Christianity. They’ve been betrayed before.

By Joseph Amar

November 19, 2019

Books

Ask the Dust

Masada is not just a significant site for the history of Second Temple Judaism. Its story also exerts a powerful hold on the modern state of Israel.

By Mahri Leonard-Fleckman

November 11, 2019

Collections

Injustice at the Border

The suffering of migrants and refugees on the border cannot be forgotten. Nor can the Trump administration’s deliberate cruelty toward them.

By The Editors

October 28, 2019