First Things RSS Feed - Daniel James Sundahl https://www.firstthings.com/author/daniel-james-sundahl en-us Copyright 2025 First Things. All Rights Reserved. ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) Mon, 20 Jan 2025 16:53:30 -0500 https://d2201k5v4hmrsv.cloudfront.net/img/favicon-196.png First Things RSS Feed Image https://www.firstthings.com/rss/author/daniel-james-sundahl 60 Bishop Colenso on the Pentateuch https://www.firstthings.com/article/1996/01/003-bishop-colenso-on-the-pentateuch https://www.firstthings.com/article/1996/01/003-bishop-colenso-on-the-pentateuch Mon, 01 Jan 1996 00:00:00 -0500 Sometimes I wake at night to listen
To Father Walter’s coughing in the
Next room; tomorrow he will complain
All day his feet and toes are cold. Sister
Gloria offers him warm tea, honey.
Together they talk about some monstrous
Polish poverty or the Capuchine
Shrine at Poznan where the Little Sisters
Of the Poor wear white cotton armlets, weave
Vestments, the God of our Fathers having
Endowed them with skill in gold, violet,
Purple, green and scarlet yarn, fine linen.

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