Spring 2025

Contents

Also available as an audio issue and by podcast

Editorial

Or Does It Explode? | Caroline Langston

Poetry

How you go on about the other woman | Linda Laderman

Atonia, Eve of St. Mark & Early Easter | Ryan Harper

The moor & Eating with the dead | Sue Proffitt

For What Do You Give Thanks? | Abigail Carroll

The Chapel Matron | Jan Wiezorek

Samsara Study & And Sanctify Us Also | Elizabeth Harlan-Ferlo

peace (ii) | Jonathan Chan

Not Like Ordinary Horses | Alex Lee

The Valley of the Living | Jonathan Chibuike Ukah

Sunday at the SoCal winery | Elizabeth Hamilton

The Artist to Her Daughter | Judith Sornberger

Sunday Prayers & Intinction | Wayne R Bornholdt

Uncle Julius Gifts Me with Awe | Fran Markover

Uncertain Opposites | Maryella Desak Sirmon

The Pause | Christopher Honey

Fiction

Beulah Land | Corey Flintoff

Nonfiction

How to Buy a Rainbow | Alice Wyman

Water | Joyce H. Munro

The Sacrament of Silence | Layne Matthews Boles

Visual Arts

Three Days and Three Nights | Douglas Porter

God Is That You? | Tonia Martin

Reviews

When Silence Roars
A Review of Aflame by Pico Iyer
Cheryl Sadowski


“we sing into the shadows of too much sorrow”
A Review of Waiting for the Mercy Ship by Lois Roma-Deeley
Brandon James O’Neil

Contemplative Practices

The Art of Contemplative Photography | Jacqueline Wallen

Cover Art: From Three Days and Three Nights by Douglas Porter