Messiah
Joshua sprinted down the access hallway of the Aeneas as fast as his old legs could carry him. Klaxons and rotating red alarms had startled him out of his bunk, […]
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Category: Issue Five
God, the Playwright
“God, The Playwright” is a free verse rendition of Frederick Buechner’s book Telling the Truth: The Gospel as Tragedy, Comedy, and Fairy Tale. In this poem, I take the reader […]
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Reviving a Sacred Imagination
In the fourth chapter of Proverbs, Solomon instructs his son to diligently tend his own soul: My son, be attentive to my words; incline your ear to my sayings. Let […]
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Imagining Conversion
It is difficult, if not impossible, to act without first imagining what one is about to do. And it is difficult to imagine something one has never seen or heard […]
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The Armor of the Dragon: Chapter One: What Grew in the Garden
In a small town in Japan, the Chinese Dragon caught the people that lived there. It invisibly guided them this way and that, pushing and pulling them along with its […]
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The Imaginative Power of Sub-Creation
The brave things in the old tales and songs, Mr. Frodo: adventures, as I used to call them. I used to think that they were things the wonderful folk of […]
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We Have Sinned and Grown Old: A Reflection on the Imagination and Motherhood
“I don’t want to tell you. It’s embarrassing.” My nine-year-old son uttered these words recently as we sat on the couch in my favorite room of our home. I don’t […]
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Celestial Rodeo
The massive bull weighed two thousand pounds. Well, two thousand and nine actually, according to the auctioneer’s official scale reading, and he did not want to get into the trailer. […]
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Re-Enchanting the World: A Tale of Two Paradigms
This essay has three goals: to convince the reader that we inhabitants of late modernity suffer from a condition of disenchantment; to persuade the reader that a certain sort of […]
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