Category: Articles

Getting Away

At Standing Stone State Rustic Park near Hilham, Tennessee, they ought to have a sign. No Internet AccessNo Cable TelevisionNo Phones, No Cell TowerNo Microwave,No

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Heartfelt Thanks

Last fall newly appointed editor James Bratt bid a fond farewell to Roy Anker as Roy completed his term of distinguished service to this journal.

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POETRY by Jerome L. McElroy

The Two Sons From end to end across the rough-cut dressing table the angry prelate stacked complaints papering the pristine vestments documenting his so-called “errors

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Christ the Fool

What is it about mockery that hurts so much? We all know. Mockery causes shame. It strips us. It exposes us. Mockery isolates some feature

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Verity Unseen

Lawrence Dorr has been writing fiction in English for more than forty years. Previous collections of his fiction include A Slow, Soft River (1974), The

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The Darling

“Liberia is a permanently haunted land filled with vengeful ghosts, and I had committed many sins there.” So ends Hannah Musgrave’s tale, chronicling her journey

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To Endure

During Advent I enjoyed a performance of Handel’s Messiah–music for Advent and Christmas, but music also relevant to Lent and Easter. While enjoying this past

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Grandpa’s Prisons

My father called me the other day, with all the excitement of a boy who had bagged his first rabbit. He informed me that he

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