by Jody Seymour | Aug 9, 2019 | Bottom Left Black Box, Houses of Worship
Search for: HOUSES OF WORSHIP In response to the constant toxic language being used in our cultural, religious, and political discourse, our columnist, Jody Seymour, offers the following “Pledge of Civility.” I pledge to refrain from using labels to...
by Jody Seymour | Jul 23, 2019 | Bottom Right Red Box, Houses of Worship
Search for: HOUSES OF WORSHIP Remember the old saying about the visitor from Mars who shows up and asks someone to “take me to your leader.” The answer I suppose would depend on just who answers the request. Who is “the” leader when it comes to our mixed up world? So...
by Jody Seymour | May 12, 2019 | Houses of Worship, Top Left Red Box
Search for: HOUSES OF WORSHIP God’s Middleman is a Woman(a poem for Mother’s Day) Seems even God needs anagent…of sortsThere’s no heavenly factory forthis production The Creator of All isabsent a shippingdepartmentLife comes our way througha middleman whois a woman...
by Jody Seymour | Apr 21, 2019 | Houses of Worship
Search for: HOUSES OF WORSHIP Death’s Lament(An Easter Poem) So long I have kept watchat a door whosekey aloneI possess But now this upstart divine avatardares robme of myprize I watched as they storedhis broken bodyin one ofmy tombs-And once again Islammed the door...
by Jody Seymour | Apr 14, 2019 | Houses of Worship
Search for: HOUSES OF WORSHIP Their crazy religion creates empty Hosannas that sound full Promises for them have been so broken and their memories long dead now desire resurrection But there shall be no new life in their desert of hope This surprising cactus that...
