how to recognize god's chosen

<p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>how to recognize god's chosen </em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>is a collection of poetic fragments that make up a long poem loosely structured like a gospel account. The principal character of the lyrical narrative is referred to with the non-gendered pronouns zhe/hir or at times as god's chosen or at others as the beloved. Pulling from a variety of religious and sacred texts--the Prophets the Gospels the Desert Fathers Medieval mystics the Upanishads Sufi poets and others--and the scholarly textual debates surrounding manuscript culture</span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> how to recognize god's </em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>chosen imagines a search for the divine set our contemporary moment of refugee crises climate catastrophe political populism and the various forms of violence that make up life in the 21st century. </span></p>