Summer 2025 Issue
Editorial | The Quest for Discernment
We talk a lot about the problem of attention these days, “screen time,” and the dangers of continuous partial attention, but it seems to me that the problem is not so much of attention as it is, yes, discernment. What is worth paying attention to in the first place, and why?
—Caroline Langston
Faithful Through and Through
Visual Art by Robert T. Rogers
POETRY
The Mystic in Between
Fred Gallagher
Lord, Give Us Seven Hearts
Claire Scott
FICTION
The Dead Hand
Micah Harris
VISUAL ART
Spiritual Seeing
John L. Gronbeck-Tedesco
INTERVIEW
Art for Meditation: Iconographer Philip Davydov
in Conversation with Lisa Shirk
CONTEMPLATIVE PRACTICES
Expansive Prayer & Lectio Divina with Poetry
Holly Porter Phillips
Audio Edition
Catch the latest issue in audio format! Read by the contributors, you can find standalone pieces in the corresponding audio issue or tune into the podcast to hear a little behind-the-scenes inspiration from the creators as they introduce their work. Find the whole issue online, or subscribe to the podcast so episodes automatically show up in your feed.
5th-Anniversary Print Issue
Available in print, digital flipbook, and audio formats, this special commemorative issue features new work from Vita Poetica’s first Writing & Art Contest winners and runners-up, as well as outstanding selections from past issues, presented in 140 full-color pages.
