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Joking with Jesus in the Poetry of Kathleen Norris and Annie Dillard.

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From: Cross Currents
Date: 20000922
Author:ROSENTHAL, PEGGY

With Jesus, it's not always suffering and passion. He's also the kind of savior that can make you laugh.

The contemporary West's major spiritual problem is distractedness. Our modes of communal distraction have multiplied and internetted so all-absorbingly that our daily round gets tied up in the illusion of total worldwide connectedness, while our personal schedules keep us dashing from meeting to meeting, car phones at one ear, radio chatter in the other. To shock us into paying attention to what truly matters -- God's presence in our midst -- some contemporary poets are ...

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