Vox pandemicae

to the making
of books
no end

vanity of vanities
in viral times
poems
prayers
sermons
meditations
hosts
of pieties

vanity of vanities
is this
the worship
I choose
go feed
go clothe
and be
mercifully still

This poem appears in the August 12, 2020 issue.

The Bible employs many merisms, in which two contrasting words stand in for a whole spectrum. “Male and female” is one of them.

By egregiously misreading Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s moral crisis, it primes viewers for violence.

In his hands, the Bible was a living, aching, burning thing.

“The nexus of religion, technology, and culture is more interrelated than most people assume,” says professor and filmmaker Brett Robinson.

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