Cover Art: “Corpus Anima” by Ena Gilih
Note from the Editor
POETRY
Emily Louise
Manna | At the Pharmacy | Days of Noah
Vern Fein
Theology | Saturday (An Easter Poem)
Johanna Caton
My Mother’s Body | Naming
Tiwaladeoluwa Adekunle
I split the afternoon
Linda McCullough Moore
Garden of Eden | Sacrifice | What Faith | Muddy Water
Nithya Mariam John
Naked Prayers | jonah | Siesta
Mary Eileen Ball
Murder | Eema | Oh, the Lamb
Ron Riekki
trauma | The woman I counsel asks me if I will pray with her | after being shown pictures of dead children
Mary Grace van der Kroef
Omnipresent | Things Made
Carol Edwards
Again
Mary Hills Kuck
Halos | It’s Cold Out There
Rachel Michelle Collier
LUCY CHALLENGES THE SUN
Andy Stager
Holyday in Zurich | Credo
Steven Duncan
Rust and Tears | Turbulence
Tiffany Nicole Fletcher
The Woman with the Issue
Luigi Coppola
The Light in the Nightclub
Donna Kathryn Kelly
Things the Internet has Ruined (Modesty)
Nadine Ellsworth-Moran
If I Could Tell You, I Would
Anthony Butts
Heart of Gold | The Legend of Lisa the Meek
Karen Abeyta
Transcendent Worship
Nolo Segundo
Vanity and Dust
Annie Harpel
actively waiting
Kimberly Phinney
Still Life | Bath
Teague McKamey
The Vineyard
John Savoie
Consider the Lily | Along the Dirt Road
Lyndi Waters
The Problem with Dreams | But then one day I pushed on the gate | The gardener wants to do something about the prairie dogs
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FICTION
N.T. McQueen
Blurry Frames
Michael Cocchiarale
Angel of Death Victorious | Portion
Nicholas A. Carrington
Words and Symbols
Michael Gigandet
If Jesus Doesn’t Mind, I Don’t
NONFICTION
Katy Huth Jones
Mum’s Not the Word, Love Is
Cynthia Brackett-Vincent
The Return of Suzy Sunshine

ART & PHOTOGRAPHY
Jeremiah Gilbert
Rome | San Juan | San Salvador
Irina Novikova
Angel with a Sphere
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