Canyon of Voices: Robert Kyr’s Songs for a Stricken Planet
By Culture Issue 117
When I listen to the oratorio, I see the canyon in my mind. I hear the soundscape from which Robert created such a moving plea for ecological awareness and urgent action. That, I suppose, is as it should be, since the Chama has, in his own words, “flowed into nearly every piece I’ve written since 1993.
Read MoreThat Which Calls Us
By Culture Issue 115
The glory of the Father…is that with him we are never out of time. He is forever welcoming our response.
Read MoreMy Imperfect Offering
By Culture Issue 115
If anything is worth living for, worth singing an imperfect offering to, it is the low and the small.
Read MoreMy Life as a Gambler
By Essay Issue 115
I had wagered more than I could afford to lose on the probability that God was a friend to the orphan and a protector of the vulnerable.
Read MoreInfinite Corpses
By Essay Issue 115
All my friends are so busy, and when they’re dying, I’ll have something to give them.
Read MoreOn Walking Alone at Night
By Essay Issue 115
After watching him for a few measures’ time, I walk on. I have no interest in spying. I only look at the things that I am allowed to see from the sidewalk.
Read MoreThe Other World, and This One: Immanent and Transcendent Tendencies in Contemporary Poetry
By Culture Issue 114
I look to poets not to confirm my ideas of the world and of God but to be shaken awake by their vision.
Read MoreBody of Books: The Resurrection of a Library
By Essay Issue 114
India Johnson on artist books, activism, and a queer library collective in Iowa.
Read MoreComedies of Seeking: New Fiction at the Borderlands of Belief
By Culture Issue 114
Where else but in fiction—both reading and writing it—can one try on so many different kinds of salvation?
Read MoreShabbas
By Essay Issue 114
I was trying to pray. How I yearned to pray! But I was both fascinated and repelled by this man’s presence.
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