Note from the Editor
Poetry
Christine Higgins
Prayer | The Pieta | Slap in the Face
Richard Wells
Summit
J.V. Sumpter
My Umbrella Shot Three Stories into the Air | American Study Abroad Students Attend Church at Harlaxton, England | The World Ends This Sunday at Midnight, But
Janz Duncan
Mother in Prayer | Grandmother preferred chrysanthemums anyway | Let it rain on me
Charles Eggerth
Holiday Local to the North Country
Richard Spilman
Monarchs
Rp Verlaine
Touched by Light | Wolves
Ron Riekki
Ex-backalleying | Father | &
Robert Funderburk
Children | Year of Jubilee
Michelle McMillan-Holifield
Boldness | Camerawoman: Siberia | Backyard
Anthony Butts
Papyrus | The Phone Age
Carol Edwards
Holy Madness | Dandelions
Laura Anella Johnson
Ash Wednesday
Richard Leach
Lazarus says how it was
Nolo Segundo
The Look in Her Eyes
Ronnie Sirmans
Parable of the Comic Strip | A Plague of Loveliness
Annie Harpel
Song on a Sunday Morning | where is my church?
Lauren M. Davis
This Thing that God Made
April Ojeda
Conversations on 16th and Guadalupe
Terri Martin Wilkins
Waters
Matthew J. Andrews
Holy Saturday
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Fiction
Nonfiction
Michelle McMillan-Holifield & Jennifer Marquez
Sook Jesus: The Vera Letters
Charles Eggerth
A Better House
Jessica Hartenbower
For the Darkest of Deserts
Desiree McCullough
Slick and Safe
Christianna Soumakis
Dear Danny Middleton
Bob Kunzinger
Offer It Up
Anthony Butts
Visionism: Of Schizophrenia & Spirituality
Niles Reddick
In the Fullness of Time
Art & Photography
Janina Aza Karpinska
Shell Madonna | Scrap Madonna with a Gold Chain
Leslie Rochelle Owen
Love Without Conditions
Karina Velasco
Watercolor Jesus
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