Holy Curiosity: The Fearful and Fascinating Mystery of the Eucharistic Super Wolf Blood Moon of 2019
Roger Owens seeks mystery and communion while gazing at the moon on a cold January night.
Roger Owens seeks mystery and communion while gazing at the moon on a cold January night.
In the days when our courthouse was being built, a mason—we don’t know who—came to our village in the night and inscribed a simple phrase on the building’s cornerstone: God’s will be done. We were, at first, outraged that someone had dared to soil our builder’s work, but over the course of generations, the mason’s […]
A poem in the ghazal form that elegizes Emmett Till, an African American boy who was murdered in Mississippi in 1955 after reportedly whistling at a white woman.
In this poem, Luci Shaw evokes sharp images of winter, mystery, nihilism, and death.
I’ve drawn blood from others, in my childhood, even friends and kin— slit the heavy garment of skin or split sinus caves with the hard hammer of my fist. Very young, I cried if my sister hurt herself. Later, her hot blood slicked my hammering hand— that hurt was, more than hers, my own. And […]