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POEM: You instruct me to forgive
In place of a meditation on forgiveness that I am yet tied up in, and unable to write.
Nov 23, 2025 • Q Lin
POEMS: Three Ghazals
From recent and less recent experiments in an old favourite form
Oct 22, 2025 • Q Lin
My Words to God Above the Village of Chamounix: Finding God (and the Self) in the Abject
More on queer mysteries, the Desert Fathers, and Julia Kristeva
Oct 18, 2025 • Q Lin
1,000 Words on Queer Mysteries
In defence of the sanctity of queerness
Aug 29, 2025 • Q Lin
POEM: Prayer for when there is another shooting in your hometown and nobody you knew was killed
I have learned that bad things will always happen. All we can do is never learn to take it.
Aug 28, 2025 • Q Lin
POEM: Benediction
A blessing for you who once had grand dreams of buying a house.
Feb 23, 2025 • Q Lin
Being or Becoming?
On the Nature of Divine and Mortal Being in Augustine’s Confessions
Feb 21, 2025 • Q Lin
Reclaiming Condemnation: How I Came Out as a Sinner
An apology to Eve on behalf of the LCMS, and the story of finding myself in Hell.
Mar 6, 2024 • Q Lin
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