Season Over
...I cannot see it, yet I believe it as fact:
Death has swallowed me, it’s no victory
but the sting of it impales my soul with grief
Doubt, we are told
is an instrumental part of faith
we can s...
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Categories:
tillich, angst, bereavement, christian, death,
Form: Free verse
Patriotism As Anti-Otherism
...Paul Tillich wrote
"nationalism hates and must always hate Judaism and prophetic Christianity."
When he spoke of nationalistic patriotism
he was thinking of fascism,
as the logical conclusion
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Categories:
tillich, earth, health, history, nature,
Form: Political Verse
The Secret of Serenity
...must lie in possibility--no wonder
Tillich saw that that alone is God,
for He lurks far beyond
a faith that follows formula,
beyond the trials and the smiles
that plague the heart with
stables, hall...
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Categories:
tillich, faith, courage, faith,
Form: Free verse