Poet and professor of divinity Christian Wiman says that there are all kinds of poems he’s turned to during this pandemic. He especially enjoys poems that are joyful and have helped him perceive the ...

Great Christian Poems Teach Priceless Lessons About Life. I hope to live the life of virtue that great poetry inspires. Raffaelo Sorbi, “Dante Meets Beatrice,” 1903 (photo: Public Domain) ...

Christian Wiman’s poems of love and doubt. Massive struggle, intense suffering, and abundant joy by Jill Peláez Baumgaertner in the April 8, ... Since 1900, the Christian Century has published ...

If you have ever been in the enviable position of considering the difference between happiness and joy, you might find yourself nodding when the latter is characterized as being wilder ...

In his new anthology, Joy: 100 Poems, the writer Christian Wiman takes readers through the ostensible ordinariness of life and reveals the extraordinary. “We ate, and talked, and went to bed ...

Vocal patterns of praise and occasional encomiums well up from those trained and tuned to Christian revelation, as Auden must have been. Poems written at the end of Auden’s life—he died in Vienna in ...