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

Emma Russell Emma Russell

The Pause

by Christopher Honey

When Father Nick lifts high the bread and brings it
Above his head, he pauses; bells no longer
Ring and the recitation’s done.

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