Note from the Editor
Poetry
Christine Higgins
The Bridegroom of My Soul | Tending | Tenderness
Sarah Law
Two Poems from One Hundred Lost Letters | Grace Drifts Down Like Dust
Diane Vogel Ferri
Libera Me, Salva Me
Oluwafemi Babasola
carry me
Karina Lutz
Ash Wednesday | What a fragile earth it is without a God. What a violent one it is with one. | Anticipating the Akedah moment
Jo Taylor
For Your Glory | Flakhelfer
Cameron Morse
Evade | Born in Sin
Gerard Sarnat
Seasonals | During Week Post Christmas: Staying On “As If” Basis With God | Reflecting on China’s Once One-Child Nation
Joris Soeding
Holy Thursday
Nnadi Samuel
My Body as a Book of Bible Stories | As Catholics, We Do Not Adopt God in the Right Fabric
Adesina Ajala
The Manner of Love
Linda McCullough Moore
free will
Phyllis Hemann
Redemption
John Tuttle
Selfish Mirage
Craig Dobson
When Angels Speak
John C. Mannone
Morning of the Fourth Day | Feeding the Hungry
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Fiction
Sarah Law
A flash from One Hundred Lost Letters
DT Richards
It’s Only a Second You’re Down
Madeleine Mysko
Mothers
Nonfiction
Hannah Melin
My Ancestors Must Have Been Beasts
Diane Vogel Ferri
Come By Here
Margaret Koger
The Dress
Meg LeDuc
Lighting Peace
Art & Photography
Segolene Haehnsen Kan
Noe sleeping | Smoke on the water
Hua Huang
A mural about Jesus and a worker like a pious prayer | Entrance of Sacré-Cœur Cathedral
Leslie Rochelle Owen
Effulgent Christ
Susana López
La Morte: Out of Work | La Morte: Cartiera | La Morte: City Time
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