On the Magi: Feigning faith Herod the King, "racially Arab, religiously Jewish, culturally Greek, politically Roman."
On the Magi: Through centuries From the beginning, Magi pondered and travelled; offered and worshipped.
On the Magi: Farcical journey Persians not Arabs, Farsi not Arabic, Magi not Kings: worship not rule.
Costly devotion Those wise men brought such manifestly impractical gifts to the infant Christ: gold, frankincense, and myrrh.
Three poems for the end of Epiphany At the far edge of our science we aren’t looking so much at stars anymore as at the older light that was what the stars were before they were stars,
Ex. 16-18; Ps. 22; Matt. 23 The second of three meditations I have written for the Center for Biblical Studies
