Daniel Staker:

There were a lot of Erics on the church’s program recently.

Dec 27

Dec 27 Poem: An Ass Speaks

This poems is a response to me wife who responded to me responding to someone else who was speaking at church.

Dec 24

Dec 24 Poem: One Man's Apocalypse...

I received this man’s terrible news with a sense of comfort.

Dec 20

Dec 20 Poem: About Debbie

I was contemplating why I wanted to cuss.

Dec 17

Dec 17 Poem: This Holiday Season

Maybe the world’s first press-release poem about the Lord’s brand.

Dec 13

Dec 13 Poem: Away in a Manger

It’s funny to me, the restrictions we put on deity.

Dec 10

Dec 10 Poem: Conversion

Based on a true story of leaving Sunday school to go watch a choir practice in the next room.

Dec 6

Dec 6 Poem: The Book of Garfield

Take inspiration where you can find it.

Dec 3

Dec 3 Poem: Flagellation

I think the religious have always had a fraught relationship with suffering, mostly because it’s inevitable but always feels unfair.

Nov 29

Nov 29 Poem: The Fervent Believer

Something about her performance reminded me of the religious shrieker married to the father in The Brothers Karamazov.

Nov 26

Nov 26 Poem: The Conceit

He knows God chose him. I was less sure.

Nov 22

Nov 22 Poem: Too Much Too Soon

Every day above ground is a great day for being with people you love.

Nov 19

Nov 19 Poem: Crime Scene Investigation

Based on a true walk to church.

Nov 15

Nov 15 Poem: Remembrance

I just want to settle the score.

Nov 7

Nov 7 Poem: The Toll

I couldn’t figure out why I was so sad sitting in Sunday School. I can wait in a DMV without wanting to cry, so why the emotion?

Nov 5

Nov 5 Poem: The Miracle of Divine Love

As I sat there listening to person after person testify, the concept of divine love was starting to feel a little squishy. But, who knows, maybe it is squishy?

Nov 1

Nov 1 Poem: The Inadequacy of Omnipotence

A short poem that, I think, makes an important point.

Oct 29

Oct 29 Poem: Sitting on a Bench

A thought occurred to me as I was seeing all the manufactured mysticism: some people have to fake it because they didn’t make it.

Oct 26

Oct 26 Poem: God's Will

Poems, Nonsense, Some Sense

I was contemplating the shaking teen who had to do the prayer all over again, and I just couldn’t in my heart believe salvation was in the balance.

Oct 22

Oct 22 Poem: The Devil!