Partaking in the Holy Mysteries: An Interview with Scott Cairns, Part I
In this interview the accomplished poet Scott Cairns describes his unique views on the mystical nature of poetry and connects them to his understanding of sacrament.
In this interview the accomplished poet Scott Cairns describes his unique views on the mystical nature of poetry and connects them to his understanding of sacrament.
In this poem, Karla Huston contemplates a museum exhibit of a woman’s body that has turned to soap.
This essay argues for the relocation of beauty from static and detached contemplation to relational, embodied, and multisensory lived experience.
In this lyrical essay, Jessie van Eerden reflects on her upbringing in a rural West Virginia church and wonders “if the words of our childhood faith-lives—words like worship, praise, holiness—have any real clout for us when we really stare them in the face as adults and when, out of the corner of our eyes, we see more and more brokenness in the world.”
A poem by Pamela Johnson Parker.
A poem by Maureen McQuerry
In this essay, Bruce Herman reflects upon the relationships between sacrifice and beauty in his own paintings and in contemporary art.