Where Even Shadows Hum
By Culture Issue 126
Sill pieced together from sources as diverse as Gene Autry and Jung’s closet gnosticism. Reviving her music is our nekyia too—a way to listen to the cultural shadows that emerged in the seventies and still haunt us.
Read MoreUnquenchable Fire: The Road as a Graphic Novel
By Culture Issue 126
Manu Larcenet. The Road: A Graphic Novel Adaptation. Harry N. Abrams, 2024. A 1-megaton thermonuclear weapon detonation begins with a flash of light and heat so tremendous it is impossible for the human mind to comprehend. One hundred and eight million degrees Fahrenheit is four or five times hotter than the temperature that occurs at…
Read MoreThe Moving Statue: Vinson Cunningham’s Novel of the Fixed and Fleeting
By Culture Issue 125
Great Expectations is far more than a novel of politics, or even a novel of history or race or society. It is, subtly and surprisingly, a novel of religion—not of spirituality, but of religion: the repeated motions performed by a community that express a shared conviction about how we ought to live as composites of the fixed and the fleeting.
Read MoreFraying at the Seams: Conversion Stories as Comfort Reads
By Culture Issue 125
Most days, belief in anything beyond the day before me felt unfathomable. But my disorientation presented me with an opening, a paradoxical invitation to entertain what I would typically have considered beyond the barometer of belief.
Read MoreUndefended Hearts
By Culture Issue 123
One of the habits I have developed without meaning to, without wanting to, is this: I routinely lower the volume on my heart.
Read MoreFiber of the Woods
By Culture Issue 123
In making nettle cloth, Brown joins fiber makers across history, including his own ancestors.
Read MoreThings Which Are: Spencer Reece’s Immanence Strategies
By Culture Issue 122
My belief: that the words are in the world, and that we are consubstantial with the world, that we are immanent along with it, the words become our world.
Read MoreExperimental Testimony
By Culture Issue 122
Grace leaves us wordless. This commonality, though, is what makes the genre of testimony so compelling.
Read MoreYou of Little Faith: Notes on Redemption
By Culture Issue 121
My own faith is inextricable from the landscape in which I was taught to believe.
Read MoreWorking It In: Moral Authority in Russian Fiction
By Culture Issue 121
I’m drawn to the extremes, and my religious sensibility is shaped by the shattering encounter not just with beauty but also suffering and guilt. How to reconcile these?
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