Poet Sally Read has written an honest and passionate account of her dramatic conversion in 2010 from atheism to Catholicism in her recently published book, Night’s Bright Darkness: A Modern Conversion Story (Ignatius Press). Having already encountered Sally’s articles and poetry, I am keen to tease out the book’s deeper themes.
I asked Sally why she uses the word “poem” to describe the Church. Sally defined a poem as when “ideas and images are coherent and spring from a lucid initial inspiration (Christ in the case of the Church).” She went on to explain:
