The prophet’s palette (Isaiah 1:1, 10-20)
Why in the world would Isaiah use the image of snow as a sign of life with God?
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Not long before her death, poet Mary Oliver said in an interview that she declined to join the church early in her life because she had trouble with the resurrection. “But,” she said, “I got saved by poetry, and I got saved by the beauty of the world.”
