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Where Even Shadows Hum

By M.P. Kennedy Culture

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.

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Unquenchable Fire: The Road as a Graphic Novel

By John Hendrix Culture

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…

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This Pillar of Cloud

By Claire Hanlon Essay

THERE IS A STORY I have been trying to tell. At first I began with a metaphor, but it never felt right. I rewrote this metaphor a dozen times or more, unwilling to let it go. The metaphor was both premonition and denial; it was an unconscious attempt to disguise the collapse of my marriage,…

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The Leaf Rake

By Ryan McIlvain Essay

Why did Jesus make the nights here so beautiful, soft to the touch? And did I really have a substitute explanation to offer my son?

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The Desire That Draws Us

By C.J. Surbaugh Essay

As I watched him settle into his seat, I felt the tension in his body almost as if it were my own, as if in his taut shoulders and straight spine he was holding himself rigid against the enormity of desire pressing down on him, as I had at his age.

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Triptych

By Alea Peister Essay

Our Lady of Vladimir’s tears are said to be myrrh. When she weeps, the faithful sop up her myrrh with cotton balls, pocket them, carry them home for the miracles. Sufferers are said to be healed. They speak of a scent that engulfs them, a scent like ten thousand roses.

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Missing Parts

By Lauren D. Woods Essay

As children, we did not say God in anger. God was ____, was holy, meant revelation, infinity, abyss, also ______ too powerful to utter.

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