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.
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.
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.
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.
Creating a Time Map
by Aizaiah G. Yong
In our fast-paced, technologically “advanced” society, we suffer from a diminished relationship with time.