Contents

Now available as an AUDIO ISSUE (text only, whole issue) and by PODCAST (introduced in segments).

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Editorial

Slowly We Inch Outward—And into the Light | Caroline Langston

Poetry

Morning Anointing | Rachel Grandey

The Desert Prophets & Father to Son | James Owens

Prayer & God Not Only Did I Walk | Lauren K. Carlson

Jonah | Jeff Burt

During the Sixth Extinction & The river that cuts a country in two | Jeannine Marie Pitas

Whole and Entire | Matthew J. Andrews

‘Love’s Radiant Play’ Cento & ‘Putting Words Next to Silence’ Cento | Kathleen Gunton

Cradle the Easter Wind | L. Ward Abel

The Beginning in My Hands | Karen Neuberg

Rave Haiku | Rose Knapp

Mudita & Far Out Space Capsule Hygiene to Avoid Primal Screams | Gerard Sernat

Eavesdropping on Absence | Laurie Klein

Secular Comedy & He Attempts to Explain His Religion | Mark J. Mitchell

Nonfiction

History Lessons | Jeannine Marie Pitas

A “Slackness of the Soul” | Nicole M. Roccas

Finding hope in the existential time warp of acedia 

Visual Art

Jesuses and Horses in a Field, Listen to My Words, & Faith and Hope

Jennifer Anne Moses explores the longing for communion with God

Interview

A Conversation with Poet Edward A. Dougherty

Interviews Editor Emily Chambers Sharpe speaks with Edward A. Dougherty about his recent book, Journey Work: Crafting a Life of Poetry and Spirit

Review

On Temporal Tranquility | Cheryl Sadowski

A review of Breaking Bread with the Dead by Alan Jacobs

Contemplative Practice

A Daily Examen for Living as an Anti-Racist Person | Vernée Wilkinson and Ted Wueste 

Cover Art: Jennifer Anne Moses. Jesuses and Horses in a Field.

Graphic Design: Rebecca Thongkham