praise

Laura Anella Johnson writes of remembering and forgetting the work of God.

Elvir Ciceklic lifts high the praises of our children.

In “Manifestation,” the poet Tania Runyan encounters prayer as something that hooks her “like a dendrite branch,” its movements slow, deliberate, and intimate.

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.”

In this poem by Courtney Druz we are challenged to “grow beyond the brittle carapace” of our selves and “leap like an ibex” from the “crags” of our doubt.