BY AVELLINA BALESTRI Individual stories in Martin’s world are randomly generated causations, without a focus on the common good holding together the whole. Read more

BY CHRISTOPHER KING I was also struck by the great charity–compassion and understanding–with which the characters were portrayed. Read more

BY CHERYL ANNE Always to Christ my branches reaching, in Wisdom’s clay my roots are bound. Read more

BY MERCIA VAN DER VYVER Can a Pagan and Christian ever find common ground? I am very happy to say that it appears so! Read more

BY EMILY GEERLING The Lady of the Golden Wood, I feel like she said I would: Restless as the wind and waves ’til I should sail the seas. Read more

BY S. DORMAN Snatches of the River’s natural history provide analogies to enrich our thoughts about its part in these happenings. Read more

BY ELIZABETH ROPER It is a common narrative to reflect upon the changing tide, the ever lapping waves and the fascination of seeing the edge of the land. Read more

BY AMANDA PIZZOLATTO “Filomena, Filomena! Mama says make it quick. Mama, Papa, Francisco and I are already ready!” blurted the ten-year-old. Read more

BY THE TRAVELING TROUBADOUR Although he was of the royal lineage of King David, he wore no crown and was not a senator, scholar, or world traveler. Read more

BY AVELLINA BALESTRI My religion is love; if your religion is love, then we are one with each other and with eternity. Read more

BY AVELLINA BALESTRI It’s best described as “parliament humor”, a witty jab with a purpose to make the opponent get red in the face. Read more

BY CLARE DAKIN Mountains – thrust me to the sky fearless and joyfully alive – finally breathing the depth, breath and scale of myself Read more

BY RACHEL LIANNA HOLLAND While before it had mirrored thousands of others, it now stood apart, unique: Broken, rebuilt, lovely in the fiercest way. Read more

BY AVELLINA BALESTRI My first brush with Bernie came early on in the election cycle, when I heard his voice emanating from the radio in our kitchen. Read more

BY CHRISTINA CULVERHOUSE Do you really Love? Are you Love? Are you more than ideas and concepts? Is Love your true reality? Read more

BY PHOENIX “The first place we shall go to,” Darotus told him, “is the Diamond City of the High Dwarves, where there are caves of pure diamond.” Read more

BY VANESSA PARRY “Celebrian and I planted this together,” he inhaled deeply, “Before your beloved Shire was birthed.”  Read more

BY JOSEPH CUNNINGHAM I’ve cursed these waters all night long, and now the morning star has given rise to the blazing dawn. Read more

BY THE TRAVELING TROUBADOUR There, in sweet eternity, there is no earthly reason to fight for one’s rights with weapons of man’s design. Read more

BY NAOMI F. STONE Before the beginning of time, before we emerged into being, God existed in the deep Silence, a pulsing truth. Read more