Over breakfast, my five-year-old daughter has just asked me a question that is at once touchingly naive and profoundly insightful. She does this to me all the time. Today I cannot answer, cannot even speak. I realize that a time will come when she’ll ask questions of the great world, not merely of me. I don’t answer, don’t even move. For a moment, it is as if time stands still. Could it be that the sages were wrong? That the...

“Eternal Pearl” The full moon comes, Every now and then, As a reminder. Perhaps, if we saw her in her fullness each night We would take her for granted, Pay less attention to the memories she brings. And we modern people— Especially Americans— Are so good at forgetting.   She reminds me that there is beauty In light that shines Without obscuring other lights; Reminds me of my ancestors, Telling stories in the moonlight; Of the...

Eco-Poetics and the Apocalypse: The Embedded Revelation in the Poetry of Leonore Wilson Just think of the blossoming parsnip, or the button quail as divinity We’ve heard a lot about the apocalypse lately. The New Age appropriation of the Mayan calendar is only one of many failed predictions that the end is coming, predictions that, in the Christian era, date back to the very genesis of Christianity. Paul, the man who in some ways created...

In this backward world In which borders are crossed daily, Even on city buses, In which money is real value And lines on a map, So allusive on the dusty borders of Creation, Are more real Than the dust itself. It is an oft-repeated truism that, while different religions may indeed be different, they all are about the same god—“many paths to the same summit”, or something like that. But what if, one might ask, there is no single god? What...

The Crucifixion has received the Independent Publisher Award bronze medal in the “religious fiction” category. Established in 1996, “the Independent Publisher Book Awards (the ‘IPPYs’) are are intended to bring increased recognition to the thousands of exemplary independent and university  titles published each year. The awards are open to all members of the independent publishing industry, and to authors and...