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Sitting beside a fire, the poet pleads for a sign
by Spencer Clark French
Embracing Marc Chagall’s refugee Christ
by Zac Koons
Wren
by Donna Pucciani
Church going online
by Steven Peterson
The Rich Man and Lazarus by James Janknegt
art selection and comment by John Kohan
Our Lord saith
by James Matthew Wilson
Joel Agee’s novel of childhood wonder and terror
by Joshua B. Grace
Rain
by Marjorie Stelmach
“I left my land, my land did not leave me,” by Qais Al-Sindy
art selection and comment by Lil Copan
Reunion
by Sarah Rossiter
Santa Barbara chiaroscuro
by Paul Willis
Castaway
by Devon Balwit
Evelyn Wang saves the multiverse
by Kathryn Reklis
Two translations face to face
by Muriel Nelson
Sunset Hill, Father’s Day
by Jeff Gundy
Sonnet: You could have made
by D. S. Martin
Batter my heart
by Leslie Williams
Strange Histories series, original 35 mm slide collages (2013–present), by Ian Trask
art selection and comment by Aaron Rosen
Fra Angelico, The Annunciation, 1437–1446
by Peter Cooley
Is it possible to tell the complete history of libraries?
by Mary Elizabeth Anderson