Renée Darline Roden – Writer

Category: Scripture

  • the women who stayed

    “We were moms, we used painter’s tape”A very subversive group—The women who stayed.who stayed behind in kitchensbaking bread from thefirst supper to the last,who gave their treasureto the God whogave all his away.They did not run that Friday,They walked with him.Sobbed, wailed, as his blood—the wine they gave—gushed through his wounds,into gutters,emptied into the graveBut…

  • John Chrysostom in the MRI

    At 7 AM, the hospital is empty, clean and quiet. I patter in slip-grip socks to the bathroom and back to sit in front of the television detailing grisly morning news reports. I squeeze my ears shut, trying to move the sound of the TV screen to the background, like a picture watermark in Microsoft…