Summer 2022

Contents

Also available as an audio issue and by podcast.

Editorial

At a Loss | Caroline Langston

Poetry

Half Life | Andy Oram

Thought in Lévy Flight | Yuan Changming

Where We Come From | Gabriella Brand

methuselah’s beard | Dan MacIsaac

Praise as Acrostic | Ellis Purdie

compass my eyes to speed of light | Kathleen Hellen

Traffic Light | G.R. Kramer

Three Poems | Gale Acuff

Second Thoughts | John C. Mannone

A Case for Repetition | Linda McCullough Moore

Heaven | Michael Hettich

A Sonnet for Freshman Year | Claude Clayton Smith

Spiritual Exercise & Beachfront Prophecy | Marda Messick

Dustfully | Phocas

From Isaiah & From Psalms | Remi Recchia

A Small World Smaller Yet: A Cenotaph | Steven R. Weiner

A Nick, to the Heart, Is a Fatal Wound &
A Desperate Plea from Your Buddhist Serial Killer | Veronica Noechel

Night Calls | Stephen Reilly

Morning Ruckus | Mira Martin-Parker

Fiction

God Help Him | Nathan Geeting

Nonfiction

The Soul a City | Sarah Law

Visual Arts

On Holy Ground | Mary Jane Miller

Paper Samplers & Pressed Memories | Rhian Swierat

Interview

Sacred Invitations: Writer Patrice Gopo
in Conversation with Emily Chambers Sharpe

Review

House of Words: Finding Comfort in the Dwelling Space of Sheltering Mercy
Kathryn Sadakierski

Contemplative Practices

Soul Care Rhythms: A Year of Exploration | Judy Ko and Laura E. Peluso
 

Cover Art: Paper Samplers: cloud forest by Rhian Swierat