Poetry and Prayer—Day 13: March 11

Written by: Julia Smolucha

Credo by Daniel Berrigan

Reclaim our hearts, O Christ. Remake us in your image. Refortify us for the maelstrom of peace that you intend. Bind us to that peace, O Christ. Amen.

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The Wizard of Uz, IV: Job’s Friends

September 25, 2022

The great Job scholar Norman Habel said, "We discover our friends when we lose our God. The ministry of friendship is not judged by our capacity to explain God's ways or defend God's teachings, but by our ability to stand with an alienated human against the insidious forces of our world, and to believe, at all costs, in that person."

The Wizard of Uz, III: Satan

September 18, 2022

Perhaps the figure of Satan is an obsolete myth to be discarded to the scrap heap of silly religion. On the other hand, in the last 70 years, we have come to know Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, Putin, and holocausts at Auschwitz, Siberia, Nagasaki, and Ukraine, so it is a bit ironic that after perhaps the most satanic century of them all, we have ceased to believe in Satan.

The Wizard of Uz, II: Sidites

September 11, 2022

Job’s wife has not fared well in the annals of religious literature, persona non grata from the very beginning when she had the audacity to tell Job to curse God and die. Augustine called her adiutrix diaboli, Satan's Secretary, or Assistant to the Diabolical One. Calvin used pretty much the same words when he called her the organum Satanae, the instrument of Satan.

Poetry and Prayer—Day 13: March 11