Summer 2026
Contents
Also available as an audio issue and by podcast
Editorial
There Is No Bottom | Caroline Langston
Poetry
waking with nightmares | Matthew E. Henry
My friends respond to my grief in the weeks after K’s death | Jeannine Marie Pitas
Afternoon Theorem | Sean Cho A.
Deadwood & Old Cambridge Cemetery | Stephen Haven
The Human | Aaron Brown
Inexorable & There's beauty and time | Hilary Sallick
Field of Vision | Richard Chess
holy communion | En Lin Koh
My mother points this out like it's something lighthearted | Christina Ellison
The One True Miracle | Frank Paino
Owl Light | Sharlee Mullins Glenn
Shekinah | Barry Casey
incarnation at Manafon | Isabel Chenot
Fiction
Percy in Dust | Louis Bourgeois
Nonfiction
Carnac Dawn | Alison Lock
Visual Arts
Transitory Space | Leah Oates
Fountain of Light | Rajni Louise
The Weight of Small Things | Sara Black
Interview
Divining the Past: Poet Chinua Ezenwa-Ohaeto
In Conversation with Christopher Honey
Reviews
Living Out a Calling | Esther Kline
A Review of If Only We Could See by Jennifer Trafton
Seeking Reality through Sound | Graham Bier
A Review of Listening to Eternity by Aram Yardumian
Contemplative Practices
The Spiritual Practice of Birding | Ragan Sutterfield
Creating a Time Map | Aizaiah G. Yong
Cover Art: Leah Oates. Transitory Space 4008 #6B, 2026. Truro, Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Color photography shot with analog camera and 35mm film.
Living Out a Calling
A Review of If Only We Could See: Reimagining Creativity, Compassion, and Calling through the Extraordinary Life of Lilias Trotter, by Jennifer Trafton (B&H Books, April 2026)
by Esther Kline
If Only We Could See shows us that art is not limited to high-brow, museum-worthy canvases. When taken together, Trotter’s art and ministry demonstrate that artistic vision submitted to the direction of the Creator can infuse every part of a believer’s life.
Seeking Reality through Sound
A Review of Listening to Eternity: The Music, Spirituality, and Creative World of Composer Tommie Haglund (Swedenborg Foundation, 2025)
by Graham Bier
Listening to Eternity offers readers a delightful chance to sit in on a conversation between a profoundly mystical musician and an admirer who is able to keep up with the references and broader context of the topics at hand.