Caroline Stowell

Cultural Infusion

Caroline Stowell learns the difference between loving and converting.

Shelby Poulin

The New Communion

Shelby Poulin imagines church, humbled and stripped-back.

Christina Lee Barnes

Watts Towers

Christina Lee Barnes draws inspiration from a Los Angeles folk-art landmark.

Bruce T. Morrill

Jesuit Life, Family Life

Bruce Morrill employs a Jesuit narrative technique to describe tensions between life in the religious order and family life.

Ryan Dueck

An Unnatural Order

The arrival of Syrian refugees to a small city on the Canadian prairies is an occasion for Ryan Dueck to reflect upon who we really think we are.

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Brian Bantum

The Third Day

A young girl tries to escape a grief-stricken home only to find that home is where her she is known most fully.

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Jonathan Hiskes

Holden Village Journal

Sunday We are on the boat, our family, barreling north into a sea of granite peaks. Before us spreads the gleaming surface of Lake Chelan, a fifty-one-mile gash cutting deep into the Cascade Mountains. To our right, the eastern foothills flow by, sun-browned in the August heat. They lie hulking like knuckles on a fist. […]

Amy Peterson

Wanderlust: A Personal History

Examining the frontier myth in American culture, Peterson traces her own life’s movement from wanderlust to stability.