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A Sacred Longing: A Review of Simone Weil’s Waiting for God

Mary Van Denend reflects on Simone Weil's "Waiting for God," a seminal piece on Weil's understandings of grace, affliction, and our "sacred longing" for God.

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Evil Is What Humans Do: An Interview with Christian Wiman

Allison Backous interviews the poet Christian Wiman about his work, his attention to lament and evil, and his perspective concerning the role of spirituality in contemporary American poetry.

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A Sacred Longing: A Review of Simone Weil’s Waiting for God

“At the center of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased by any object in this world” (132). Simone Weil wrote these words at a time...

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Evil Is What Humans Do: An Interview with Christian Wiman

Christian Wiman is one of America’s most important poets. He is the editor of Poetry magazine, the author of several poetry and essay collections, and a revered contributor to such prestigious...

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