Author: philipcmaurer@gmail.com
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Helping Incarcerated Men See Their Own Worth
The Christian Century, August 2023 | I interviewed James Enoch Banks, who founded The Men’s Workshop while serving a prison sentence in Texas.
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When Israeli Settlers Meet West Bank Palestinians
The Christian Century, November 2022 | I interviewed Rabbi Hanan Schlesinger. Rav Hanan, Ali Abu Awwad, and Shaul Judelman, co-founded the Israeli-Palestinian peace organization called Roots – Judur – Shorashim.
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I Have Built A Language: Stephanie Strickland’s How the Universe is Made
Tupelo Quarterly Reviews, May 2021 | A poetic reflection on Stephanie Strickland’s collected poems: process and artifact.
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Something is About to Happen: A Review of Space Struck by Paige Lewis
Tupelo Quarterly Reviews, April 2020 | My interpretive review of Space Struck, in which Lewis seems to relate some of what she’s experienced of the Divine on Earth.
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“Get Ready for the Secret of Your Life”: a Review of Hawk Parable by Tyler Mills
November 2019, Tupelo Quarterly Reviews | I felt deeply engaged by Mills’ collection: an archive of memories, an attempt to understand the unthinkable.
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A Young Poet Shaped by Religious Language
The Christian Century, April 24, 2019 | Poet and rapper Nate Marshall graciously spoke with me about his upbringing in a Black Lutheran church, the KJV’s influence on his sense of language, and at least one way to work in the Christian literary tradition these days.