On December 25th, we commemorate the story of the King and the beginning of his mission. To hear it fresh we will tell it a bit strangely. And so this story of a king is also the story of a kingdom. Many hundreds of years before, this kingdom had been divided into two, north and…

What would it be like to learn you would carry the infinite God within your womb? This ekphrastic poem (fr. Gk ekphrasis, a rhetorical exercise of describing a work of art) follows Botticelli’s lead in opening up a space of consciousness between Gabriel’s message and Mary’s bold acceptance. The poem is both meditation and art criticism. It…