Contents

Also available as an audio issue and by podcast

Editorial

In the Light of Eternity | Caroline Langston

Poetry

Hedge of Protection | Spencer Barnhill

Christ's Baptism | Steven Searcy

Guarding the Body | Alisha Goldblatt

Lux | Ryan Service

Bat Mitzvah Dreams | Rachel Prizant Kotok

Bloor-Danforth | D.S. Martin

The Tantra of Abiding | Douglas Thornton

In the Shtetl, G-d Does Not Only | Barbara Krasner

Sacrifice | Tzivia Gover

The Conductor from Zion Square | Maxim D. Shrayer

The Primordial Catastrophe in the Process of Creation | Maya Bernstein

Yom Kippur | Lisa Rosinsky

the afterlife of mice | Kathleen Hellen

What Will We Do the Day the World Ends? | Tommy Welty

Perry | Barry Peters

Before | Sharon Dolin

The Lead Pastor's Visit | Riv Wren

Fiction

The Woman with Red Hair | Charles Sutphin

Nonfiction

Obviously | Miriam Fried

Visual Arts

God’s Underpaintings | Tasha Cathey

When Art Eschews Theology | Timothy deVries

Multimedia

Kani ka ‘ōpala: A Musical Redemption of Rubbish | Benjamin Fairfield

Reviews

Seeking Creative Freedom
A Review of The Release by Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew
Lory Widmer Hess

Transforming the Past
A Review of Kinship by Maxim D. Shrayer
John Morris

Interview

Surrendering to the Kiln:
Ceramic Artist Sarah Wells Rolland & The Village Potters Clay Center
in Conversation with Emily Chambers Sharpe

Contemplative Practices

It Shall Be Food for You: A Brief Cooking Meditation | Samir Knego

The Practice of Leading Contemplative Prayer | Kevin Driedger

Cover Art: Through the Waters by Timothy deVries