Holiday 2014: Writing and Faith

Beyond Self-Revelation

Words are easy to believe in. You put them down, and they stay put. Their validation is immediate. They have the power to create and the power to destroy, but you never have to doubt their motive if you’ve produced them honestly.

—“Faith in a Folder”

New pieces will appear on the Table of Contents as they publish throughout the issue cycle.

Personal Stories

The Holy Terror by Jeremiah Horrigan

Movies with My Mother—and James Agee by Marc Schiffman

Interviews

Chana Bloch: “The Poem Begins to Shape You” by Carol Dorf

William Least Heat-Moon: "Damnable Speed" by David Biddle

Fiction

Wanderers by Douglas Cole

Art

Elvis and Amazing Grace by Theresa Williams

The Essence of Home by Judith A. Ross

First Person

What Journalists Can Teach Memoir Writers by Martha Nichols

Theme for this Issue

In Search of Small Stones by Carla M. Wilson

Empathy Is Not Enough by Laurette Folk

Technology, the Snake in My Garden by Wm. Anthony Connolly

Faith in a Folder by Robin L. Flanigan

A Religious Writer’s Dilemma by Ruth Carmel

Why I Write

Child of Noon and Midnight by Lydia Buchanan

Poetry

Jim Robinson: Poem by Jim Robinson

Chana Bloch: Two Poems by Chana Bloch

TW Reading Series

The Tea Party of Lewis Carroll by William Todd Seabrook

Columns

Tough-Cookie Biblical Women by Emily Toth

The Second Coming by Steven Lewis