Summer 2025
Contents
Also available as an audio issue and by podcast
Editorial
| 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 Campbell
Periodic Table and the Old Wise Guy | Mary Jane Miller
Faithful Through and Through | Robert Rogers
Interview
Reviews
The Girl Who Baptized Herself
No One Knows Us There
Contemplative Practices
Expansive Prayer & Lectio Divina with Poetry | Holly Porter Philips
Awed by Creation | Deb Baker
Cover Art: Robert Rogers. All That Time. 2025. Oil on canvas. 16 x 20 in.
Awed by Creation
by Deb Baker
The idea of humans having “dominion” over the rest of creation relies on an assumption about the superiority of human abilities. And yet, when we examine and reflect on creation, the complexity of everything about our planet, from the “repeated refrains of nature” to the structures of soil and rocks to the lives of other creatures can offer a wider perspective.