by Jason Farley | Oct 18, 2018 | Arts, Jason Farley, Podcast Episode
My Poem The Scars of God’s Hands G.K. Chesteron’s Poem The Hunting of the Dragon If you are looking for more from the Westminster Confession of Funk, check out my blog hosted by Cross Politic. Check out my books at amazon.com/author/jason_farley. And...
by Jason Farley | Oct 18, 2018 | Arts, Blog, Feast, Feast Featured Post, Jason Farley
My soul clung to the dust, now dust clings to my soul. Your life-breath, once blown up the nose of my father, once exhaled in fruit-statutes, once blown across the dry bones until they could get up and dance; breathe life on me. Speak again the six stanzas that climb...
by Jason Farley | Oct 2, 2018 | Arts, Blog, Feast, Jason Farley
Blueberry bushes brush bungling hands. Hands heavy with age —quivering unhelpfully— gather taste gushing gems of tang. No rot. No root-break. The ripped branches are simply savaged off by shaking old hands. Hands tired of being bound- back for decades. Held mute by...
by Jason Farley | Sep 26, 2018 | Arts, Jason Farley, Podcast Episode
Check out the poem Pied Beauty from Hopkins. If you are looking for more from the Westminster Confession of Funk, check out my blog hosted by Cross Politic. Check out my books at amazon.com/author/jason_farley. And visit Jovial Press for more. Thanks for joining me...
by Jason Farley | Aug 10, 2018 | Arts, Blog, Feast, Feast Featured Post, Jason Farley
SONG OF YOUR OWN People take on the shape of the songs and stories that surround them, especially if they don’t have a song of their own. Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys Like the slender-ankled daughters of ocean shaped by the banks that decide their path, we are...
by Jason Farley | Apr 17, 2018 | Arts, Blog, Book Reviews, Feast, Jason Farley, Theology
Having recently had The Rev. Joseph Carlson as a Guest on the recent episode of CrossPolitic, I thought it might be nice to get one of his sonnets before you. This is for the 24th Sunday of the Trinity Season in his book of Sonnets for the Church Year. Waiting Four...
by Jason Farley | Mar 5, 2018 | Arts, Blog, Feast, Jason Farley, Theology
Wing Lift Psalm 91:3-4 Death-wrenched, life-drenched, each pinched soul fledged to soar on raptorial sails. A fowler-freed fire-bred goldfinch, carols unhitched, stretching and reaching, on wind-held wings. Held in glide and lift, windhover pinion, piloted upwards,...
by Jason Farley | Jul 12, 2017 | Arts, Blog, Culture, Feast, Jason Farley
The Christian Church is in exile. Not that we are living in tents (though many church buildings may qualify as temporary). Instead, there is a deeper exile. The soul of the American Church is in the plot point of the epic poem in which the protagonist becomes a...
