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

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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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Visual Prayer: Visual Artist Lillian Richards

In Conversation with Emily Chambers Sharpe

It’s not so much about the finished product as the process and being still… and letting it go where it’s supposed to go.

—Lillian Richards

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Writing the Whale

A Review of Touching This Leviathan by Peter Wayne Moe

by Cheryl Sadowski

“But what shall I know of whales?” asks Peter Wayne Moe in Touching This Leviathan, a work of lyric nonfiction that circles and stalks its elusive subject, the whale, trying “know the unknowable.”

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Growing Up, Barbie, and the Reclamation of Girlhood

by Emma Russell

Every woman was once a little girl, and any little girl who ever picked up a Barbie doll didn’t play at being God; she was God. From a very young age, girls named their dolls, giving them rich backstories, developing their relationships, and cultivating their lives. We have been planning the trajectory of our doll’s life for as long as we can remember.

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Breathe: A Wild Church Reflection

by Sarah Renee Werner

Close your eyes and take a few deep breaths. Feel your feet grounding you to the floor or to the earth beneath you. Feel your heart beating in your chest, your lungs taking in the air around you, and letting it out.

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