Poet and Author
Deeper than words is the Word. Deeper than the abstract is the Incarnate. Deeper than prose is poetry. Therefore, if language is to be good, it must be in covenant with the truth. And if the truth is to be good, it must offer us the choice to give ourselves freely to it. In a word, it must be beautiful. And if the proud arm of Unbelief removes the trees called the True and the Good from the Garden, chopping them to stumps, then the tree called Beauty, pushing up from the homely root of self-giving love, will stretch out her bows and do the work of all three.
Recent Articles
Ode To the Moon
18/06/2019O moon you have moved me from before I Knew my right hand from my left, filling eyes With glow before I know a thought to think About what I behold before your light Transforming all things to another world Where all is clothed with living secrets viewed In silent air that carries them from […]
Description of a Larry Dyke Painting
30/08/2018An ekphrastic poem is one attempting to convert a work of art or artisanship into a vivid verbal description. This poem describes a scenic work by Friendswood artist Larry Dyke, “Majestic Vision I”, painted in 1995.
Hopkins Gives the Windhover a Voice
29/06/2018Hopkins’ heart is stirred by the extravagant love gift of a single bird. It leads to greater awe: if noble things like this inspire wonder, how much more the common things, as common as the shine of plow-split earth and the glow of gashed open embers. We too, like Hopkins, are wooed by the Creator through the art he created. And we, like Hopkins, are to give it all a voice: a dialogue with the One through whom all things are made.
Wonder
Why are we here? Where are we going?
Ray Mayhew Articles Revised by Kurt
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Choose Joy
In a world whose troubles dwarf our own, is joy possible—even permissible?
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The Bridge Called Beauty
Innocent beauty welcomes us. It disarms our defenses and leads us to the borders of virtue, justice, and the mystery of God. Why?
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Life-Giving Limitations
Freedom and joy come by the acceptance of our limitations, by realizing that in fact these actually define who I am as a unique person.
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The Gardener of Eden
The Hebrew verbs communicate a distinct personality and tender ethos of the “LORD God” as he introduces himself to the reader.
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The Dialogue of the Gift
We must realize that creation does not only say something about glory of God, but equally something about the value of mankind.
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The Genesis Trajectory
The overall arc of human history is released in Genesis 1 & 2, is redeemed from missing its mark by the Lamb, and reaches its intended destination in Revelation 21 & 22. God transforms Chaos to Comos, and we transform the Cosmos into a global garden-city: the Cathedral where God dwells with Man.