Ep. 95: God’s Risk in Creation, with Jane Clark Scharl, Poet

September 16, 2024 00:58:58
Ep. 95: God’s Risk in Creation, with Jane Clark Scharl, Poet
Faith and Imagination: A BYU Humanities Center Podcast
Ep. 95: God’s Risk in Creation, with Jane Clark Scharl, Poet

Sep 16 2024 | 00:58:58

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Show Notes

The concluding poem from Jane Clark Scharl’s 2024 debut collection Ponds addresses the risk God takes in creating a world that can be almost mesmerizingly beautiful – a risk, Scharl writes, that “entices [us] to look / no further than” the world itself, to miss perceiving God through the radiance of what strikes our senses. Scharl is a playwright and critic as well as a poet, and we speak today about perceiving the divine by way of nature, about familial relationships, and about seeking signs of God’s presence in a world that, while beautiful, sometimes resists granting those wishes.

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