COVER ART — “Arrival” by Laura Erekson
I ran out to my garden several times during the creation of this work, gathering everything from Italian parsley to grapes. It explores the complexities of womanhood and female identity. The woman standing in a lush garden represents not only Eve, but all women past, present, and future. The central question is whether she is lost or found, or both. This work is both a tribute to the resilience and strength of women and an invitation to examine our own journeys and celebrate them. It is an ode to the long line of women who have come before us and an affirmation of the infinite possibilities that lay ahead.
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LETTER FROM EDITOR “A Reverence for Trees, a Reverence for Printers” by Rosie Gochnour Serago
ESSAY “Complete Reconstruction // Reconstructing Completion” by Kimberly Applewhite Teitter
ESSAY “The Place that Doesn’t Exist” by Allison Pingree
FICTION “Holy Week” by Carol Lynn Pearson
ESSAY “A Letter to My Daughter” by L.E.R.
POETRY “After Dobbs” by Alixa Brobbey
WOMEN’S WORK “Meet Sue Zwahlen: Mayor of Modesto, California” — Interview with Mayor Zwahlen by Katie Ludlow Rich
ARTIST FEATURE “Holiness Found Everywhere” — Interview with Kathryn Ivy Reese
BLOG FEATURE by Kaylee McElroy, Mindy Farmer, Bryn Knowlton Neenos, Nicole Sbitani
POETRY “Our Mother-Goddess Gleaming Bright, a Hymn” by Sarah J. Carter
THEOLOGY “The Lord Has Directed”: Precedent & Revelation in Priesthood Ordination” by El Call
ESSAY “Clean” by Josieanna Peterson
ESSAY “Gentle Parenting” by Lauren Toiaivao Bost
POETRY “Reluctant, Radiant” by Heidi Naylor
ESSAY “Working Mom” by Janalie C. Bingham Joseph
BOOK REVIEW of Every Needful Thing by Melissa Wei-Tsing Inouye & Kate Holbrook — Reviewed by Ynna Padilla
ESSAY “Not Giving My Son the Priesthood” by Alma Frances Pellett
BOOK REVIEW of O Lady, Speak Again by Dayna Patterson — Reviewed by Rachel Rueckert
ESSAY “Wayfinding Between Worlds” by Trang Thach Hickman
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