The Need for Priest-Poets

"I don't deny that there should be priests to remind men that they will one day die. I only say it is necessary to have another kind of priests, called poets, actually to remind men that they are not dead yet."

-G.K. Chesterton

Comments

[Tom]

Don't you think the most "notorious" living priest-poet is Eugene Peterson?

[J.R.]

Tom,

Yes, that's why I had in mind.
That's why I am so honored to consider and privileged to count Eugene as a friend, mentor and a great pen pal.

J.R.

[J. R. Miller]

Hi, I am a fellow pastor and come to your site today through a google search.

I agree, the pastor poet is a good combination. In my own poetry, I have found great freedom... sometimes a freedom I do not have in prose.

If you are interested, here is a link
http://www.morethancake.org/search/label/Poetry

Joe