creative writing

Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew humbles herself in a search for Marilynne Robinson’s creative authority.

Jill Bergkamp reflects on the voice of the voiceless sōkhenet, the bed companion of King David’s old age.

A woman wrestles with how post-traumatic stress disorder affects her daily life and faith.

The poet Donald Paris writes about his father.

She rode out to sea at the wheel of the rented boat, her hair wild in the wind.

Certain strands of friendship can cross distances, but others—regretfully—are broken.

I A dilapidated yellow ice cream truck parked outside the fenced microwave tower, about a mile outside the tiny township of Cisco, Illinois. Aside from the few silver grain silos and the blinking elevator at the Co-op in town, the buzzing tower was the only vertical sign of human progress in the expanse of corn, […]

After resurrection, Jesus acted strange, materializing through solid wood, even though he didn’t look that different. The gashes seeped still, varnishing the tentative hand, the fingers that needed to know him new. Let me say how strange I feel, trusting this to be true—that a body can be both mortally wounded and whole enough to […]

Jason Byassee examines fatherhood, mortality, resurrection, and the hope of a good surf.