Kathy Eldon

Poems, Piety, and Psyche

Arts & Literature

“Having watched David minister to far-flung congregations of mostly elderly parishioners in ancient stone churches, I was aware of his frustrations as he tried to communicate the essence of Christ’s teachings, sans the institutional bureaucracy and dogma that can obscure the message of love, compassion, and forgiveness. David’s poetry, refined, yet painfully raw, lays bare his innermost feelings about the ossification of what should be the Living Word. When I think of how courageous Jesus was when he spoke out against the hypocrisy of established Judaism, I have a feeling that if he were here now, Jesus would be blasting out David’s poems on all his social media streams, hoping that readers would be compelled to rise up, speak truth to power, and save Christianity.”