Autumn 2023

Contents

Also available as an audio issue and by podcast

Editorial

Finding the Seed within Decay | Caroline Langston

Poetry

How to Walk in Space: Untethering & How to Walk in Space: 3:35AM Dec 9, 2022 | Joel Peckham

Yom Kippur in Boston & Grapes of Sukkot | Maxim D. Shrayer

from whence salvation | Jean Anne Feldeisen

When and If | David James

Between Slaughter and Exile | Edward A. Dougherty

Rembrandt's Good Samaritan, Then and Now | Adele Ne Jame

Autumn in Paris, Texas; Tennessee Camp Meeting, 1982; A Vagrant | Stephen M. Sanders

Madness | Brandon James O'Neil

In a Cloud & Wall Hanging | Chila Woychik

Prodigy of the Big Ones  | Peter Carrington Venable

For the usher who served the Lord's Supper to my wife and daughter wearing a sidearm
Jonathan Frey

Gardens of Earth | Erica Waters

Nonfiction

Less and More | Angela Townsend

Visual Art

Annunciation / Relics of Annunciation | Michelle J. Chun

Reverent Marvels | Maura H. Harrison

Interview

Visual Prayer: Visual Artist Lillian Richards
In Conversation with Emily Chambers Sharpe

Reviews

Writing the Whale: A Review of Touching This Leviathan | Cheryl Sadowski

Growing Up, Barbie, and the Reclamation of Girlhood | Emma Russell

Contemplative Practices

A Blessing for Your Belly | Rebekah Vickery

Breathe: A Wild Church Reflection | Sarah Renee Werner

Reader Response Series: Introduction | Samir Knego

Cover Art: Under a Shady Tree by Maura H. Harrison

Vita Poetica Vita Poetica

Reverent Marvels

by Maura Harrison

Borrowing a phrase from Julian of Norwich, I think it is important that “one should reverently marvel and humbly endure, ever delighting in God.” As a photographer, this idea directs my eye. Everywhere I look, I challenge myself to notice the beauty and marvels of God's natural world. In finding them, I hope to capture that beauty in a photograph so that I can share God’s marvels with others.

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