On Sunday, April 17, Christians who observe Easter will do so with prayer, worship services, Easter egg hunts and probably too much chocolate. On top of the religious cause for the holiday, Easter is ...

That’s not a poem specifically about Easter. Phyllis McGinley wrote it to celebrate attending church services on a fine spring day. The title is “Sunday Psalm” and it grows from a paraphrase of verse ...

"Sometimes we find that the best-loved Gospel stories become so familiar that we can no longer respond to them," says Rosenthal (The Poets' Jesus). "Poetry's special gift is to cast a fresh eye on the ...

Lord, Who createdst man in wealth and store, Though foolishly he lost the same, Decaying more and more, Till he became Most poore: With Thee O let me rise, As larks, harmoniously, And sing this day ...

This smallish gift book (roughly four by six inches) is a hodgepodge of the sacred and the secular; Easter hymns and Scripture quotations are found alongside folklore, recipes and international ...

Minnesotan Mary Moore Easter’s new poetry collection, “The Body of the World,” her most personal, ranges from a lament for the Hottentot Venus, a South African woman whose genitals were pickled after ...