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.

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Fountain of Light

by Rajni Louise

My work is inspired by the infinite replication of life, patterns found in nature, and their mimicry in digital technologies.

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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.

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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.

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The Spiritual Practice of Birding

by Ragan Sutterfield

When the weather becomes warm enough, my wife and I wake early and take our coffee to the porch. Our yard is a place we have cultivated, as best we can, for hospitality.

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Creating a Time Map

by Aizaiah G. Yong

In our fast-paced, technologically “advanced” society, we suffer from a diminished relationship with time.

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