May 12, 2021 / Creative Writing
Dennis Vannatta tells a story about confronting one’s past—and then one’s future.
Dennis Vannatta
May 12, 2021 / Creative Writing
May 12, 2021 / Creative Writing
fiction
Rita Willett
May 10, 2018 / Creative Writing
May 10, 2018 / Creative Writing
Rita Willet tells the story of Guy and his unconventional journey to baptism.
Lori Huth
October 5, 2015 / Creative Writing
October 5, 2015 / Creative Writing
Two women whose strategies for living a meaningful life conflict vie for ownership of an antique family barn.
Scott Schomburg
September 17, 2015 / Perspective
September 17, 2015 / Perspective
Marilynne Robinson’s novels have become almost synonymous with loneliness, but solitude here remains entangled with a less acknowledged trope—an enveloping and dazzling darkness.
Andrew W.E. Carlson
January 30, 2012 / Praxis
January 30, 2012 / Praxis
Flannery O’Connor insists that good fiction must be grounded in place; in this essay, Andrew W. E. Carlson discovers that the same can be said for church.
Schuy R. Weishaar
November 9, 2010 / Creative Writing
November 9, 2010 / Creative Writing
I A dilapidated yellow ice cream truck parked outside the fenced microwave tower, about a …
Allison Backous & Ron Hansen
September 8, 2010 / Creative Writing
September 8, 2010 / Creative Writing
Ron Hansen’s fiction is tight and rich. Each of Hansen’s writings carries a certain arc: …
Meghan Young
August 11, 2010 / Perspective
August 11, 2010 / Perspective
Young reviews Gina Oschner’s critically acclaimed novel THE RUSSIAN DREAMBOOK OF COLOR AND FLIGHT, with an eye to how the novel’s post-Soviet characters mirror Young’s own experience living with her missionary family in Latvia.