Language and the Sacred Possibilities of Faith

Patricia hemple is a poet and an esteemed religious memoirist. She found herself reacting against much of the harsh and vengeful language after september eleventh. And then she, like other christians, turned to the psalms of the hebrew bible as sanctified words. As a writer, i have to think about language. That's where i've put my faith. There is no religion that isn't literary? They all, all these contending religions, whether it's islam or judism or christianity in its various forms, has the book and goes to the book. We're in a very delicate, but also interestingly empowered place in terms of