
“Resounding Melody”: Hildegard, Mary Oliver, and Word Made Flesh
For Hildegard, words are alive, and take many forms. Word is music, a “resounding melody” inherent in every being and found in every corner of
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For Hildegard, words are alive, and take many forms. Word is music, a “resounding melody” inherent in every being and found in every corner of

Today is the fourth anniversary of Mary Oliver’s death. She died January 17, 2019. She did not die before her work was finished, her work of paying

Part of the contribution of Christena Cleveland in her book God Is a Black Woman is to invite a new appraisal of that archetype within her own

Today we celebrate one of the greatest Christian saints of all time: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. King had at least three mentors: Jesus, Howard

Hildegard sees creativity at the core of our vocation as human beings, and pictures God saying, I have been moved by the form of humankind, I

We continue our journey deeper into Hildegard’s teachings on viriditas which is a major theological category invented by Hildegard. In Latin it means literally “greening power.” Greening was a

We have spent the better part of the past two weeks meditating on a marvelous new painting by Alex Grey which he calls a “homage

Yesterday’s meditation on Alex Grey’s painting on Greening Power ended with Hildegard’s telling us how armies of angels are busy singing “every kind of music.” Why

When I asked Alex Grey recently for permission to share his latest painting in our daily meditations, he responded generously. Dear Matt, How great to hear

Yesterday we learned that the president of Harvard University, only eight months into her job, resigned. Claudine Gay was the first black woman to head the
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