Marci Rae Johnson: Poet Beyond Irony

Marci Rae Johnson, Basic Disaster Supplies Kit: Poems (Steel Toe Books, 2015) In Basic Disaster Supplies Kit, her second collection, Marci Rae Johnson explores love, parenthood, and the Christian life in the context of life on-line, reveling in the Internet’s speed, distortion, and telescoping of time and space. Her poems absorb and transform distant galaxies,…
“Immensity cloystered in thy deare wombe”

A poem for Advent by the Metaphysical poet and Anglican divine John Donne, from La Corona, a seven-part sonnet cycle. Nativitie Immensity cloystered in thy deare wombe, Now leaves his welbelov’d imprisonment, There he hath made himselfe to his intent Weake enough, now into our world to come; But Oh, for thee, for him, hath th’Inne…
Carl Henry Audio Series: “Jesus’ Legacy to His Disciples”
Location: First Baptist Church, Conway AK Date: November 13, 1979 Scripture: John 14:1-27 Anxiety in the Christian life is not merely a contemporary phenomenon. The disciples of Jesus, Carl Henry explains, were anxious about Jesus’ death and departure. They wondered what life would look like without the Messiah in whom they had placed their faith and to whom…