Cover Art: Dancer by Carl Scharwath
Note from the Editor
POETRY
Emma McCoy
Fruit trees for the fearful
Larry Pike
Air Pressure
Terry Savoie
Beneath a Heavenly Blue Mantilla
K.L. Johnston
Prayers of the Righteous | Second Call
Jennifer Stewart
Salvage | The 13th Station
Cameron Brooks
Camp Judson | Man Under Authority
D. Walsh Gilbert
Mary Gets Plucky & Bold in Assisted Living | Mary Faces Firebrand and Ember | Mary Surrenders
Catherine A. Coundjeris
Asking for Signs
Chris Carstens
Real Presence
Grace Claire Przywara
I Often Try to Soften Jesus
Ryan Apple
On Leaving Jerusalem
Kath Higgens
A Kindness of Ravens
Ryan Helvoigt
The Stones and the Bread
Steven Searcy
The Bread | Following Vultures | Fly
Bob Hicks
In the dark | The emberfall
Alena Casey
Dust
Charles Eggerth
Rebel Hearts | Wilderness
Nellie deVries
What’s the Name of This Place? | Fear/Revere
Phil Flott
His Fire
Tommy Welty
Ghost-House
Ellis Purdie
Kneeling Bedside | Abandoned Church in Harrison County
Don Reese
Saving
Natasha Bredle
Unbaptised | Faith | Believe Me
Brooke Stanish
Epiphanies & Panic Attacks | Crayon God
Ron Riekki
Sundowning | I’ve Found That When People Proselytize | (nonfiction) Negaunee
Michael Pennanen
Escape
Nicole Rollender
Flung From the Body
Kaitlyn Newbery
The Rest
Rachel Michelle Collier
Whitestone Ascendant | Strange Unblanketed
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FICTION
Matt Hollingsworth
The Sky Is Solid
Jennifer Stewart
The Exchange
Brooke Stanish
Oh, Lover of Bethlehem
April Bumgardner
Anna of the Temple
Kelly Duffy
Visiting
Diana Pollin
Running From Mary Jane
Jeffrey Wald
Friggin’ Dvořák
Joseph A Farina
Religious Studies
Jay Simons
Ring Around the Collar
NONFICTION
Thomas O’Connell
Hell Is Nostalgia
D.M. Gralewski
Baseball, Bootcamp & Ballet: Reflections on Biblical Womanhood, Alphabetically Arranged
Katy Huth Jones
Becoming Grace
Bethany Jarmul
Wade in the Water
Denise Kohlmeyer
Lesson Learned

“Saint Michael’s Church, Luxembourg” by Jeremiah Gilbert.
ART & PHOTOGRAPHY
Carl Scharwath
Angel | Dancer
Jason Hendrickson
Crucifixion of Christ
Lea Ervin
Blood and Water
Khosrow Mokori
Sudokolor
Jeremiah Gilbert
Saint Michael’s Church, Luxembourg | Templo Católico de Sarchí Norte, Sarchí, Costa Rica | Church of Our Lady of Carmen, Guatapé, Colombia
Misty Morgan Dixon
The Fall
O. Yemi Tubi
The Bait
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