Contents

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Editorial

The Quest for Discernment | Caroline Langston

Poetry

Abandonment | Catherine Harnett

The Mystic in Between & Anamnesis | Fred Gallagher

Mourning | Maxim D. Shrayer

Tree of Faith & Trash Meditations | Elizabeth Cranford Garcia

Like a Mother Peeling Oranges | Riley Morsman

Heron at Night | Esther Van Dyke

Stations along the Way | Richard Jackson

Thoughts upon Reading On Beauty and Being Just in the Oncologist's Office | Alea Peister

Imposter Syndrome of the Jewish Kind, Rabbi Rachel Is Dead, & Trying to Change the Past | Maureen Sherbondy

Seeing God the Easy Way: Big Sur 1963 | David Blumenfeld

on another shore, or because true autumn has begun | Steven O. Young Jr.

Doorways | Eric Machan Howd

It Works | Quincy Gray McMichael

Lord, Give Us Seven Hearts | Claire Scott

At Prayer | Barry Casey

Fiction

The Dead Hand | Micah Harris

Visual Arts

Spiritual Seeing | John L. Gronbeck-Tedesco

Divine Encounters | Douglas G. Campbell

Periodic Table and the Old Wise Guy | Mary Jane Miller

Faithful Through and Through | Robert T. Rogers

Interview

Art for Meditation: Iconographer Philip Davydov

in Conversation with Lisa Shirk

Reviews

“Sacred Rage” and Spiritual Defiance
A Review of The Girl Who Baptized Herself by Meggan Watterson
Shirley Paulson

Grief’s Unmaking and Remaking of the Self
A Review of No One Knows Us There by Jessica Bebenek
Dinah Ryan

Contemplative Practices

Expansive Prayer & Lectio Divina with Poetry | Holly Porter Phillips

Awed by Creation | Deb Baker

Cover Art: Robert T. Rogers. All That Time, 2025. Oil on canvas. 16 x 20 inches.