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) ...

The expression of doubt can be a refreshing alternative to most contemporary poets’ disregard for issues of faith. For Christian Wiman, doubt has not quite solidified into unbelief, which means his ...

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 ...

Christian Wiman, a professor at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, collects such modernist attempts for us in a bracing book, Joy: 100 Poems.