A Letter from the Editors
A World Ablaze: Reflections on Our Summer Theme In her famous epistolary novel Gilead, Marilynne Robinson’s protagonist John Ames writes in his Pentecost sermon that…
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Exposing Ezekiel: Embodied Prophecy in Bialik’s ‘Be-‘ir haharegah’
Hayyim Nachman Bialik’s ‘Be-‘ir haharegah‘ (‘In the City of Slaughter’) remains one of the most powerful literary responses to the Kishinev Pogrom. Bialik, a…
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Sewing Seeds: Circular Fashion as Analogy
When you sow, you do not plant the body that will be, but just a seed, perhaps of wheat or of something else. But God…
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The Tomb, the Throne, and the Fire: A Theological Reading of the Pentecost Icon
In traditional Christian iconography, Pentecost is associated with the image of tongues of flames, fire, or even doves, which signify the Holy Spirit in…
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The Dead Tree Gives No Shelter
What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow Out of this stony rubbish? Son of man, You cannot say, or guess, for you…
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A Fire That Lights Other Fires: Tolkien on Creation
‘I have kindled you with the Flame Imperishable’ could almost belong to a liturgy of Pentecost or Confirmation, yet it does not. It is…
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Purged and Prepared: The Great-Great Grandmother’s Rosefire in George MacDonald’s Princess Stories
The Princess books, some of George MacDonald’s most memorable tales, tell the stories of two children who each encounter a wise old woman, known…
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A House for Prometheus
Inspiration is the feeling of beginning at the threshold where Silence and Light meet. Silence, the unmeasurable, desire to be, desire to express, the…
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