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submit print web contact donate home somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning that without listening speaking no longer heals that without distance closeness cannot cure henri j m nouwen current issue summer 2026 loon and rippling water at the forefront of autumn wright s cover art invite you into relief 2026 david j s pickering s silence death grapples with living in the midst of repeated cycles of injustice mika seifert s bardo brings us to the threshold that is a pilot s uncanny island elizabeth bolton s burn it all down notes from an art history major begins with a single flower s survival from destruction and the wish to understand why whether through joyful observation of beauty and connection unresolved reflection on life s tangible uncertainties or determination to simply live life each day the 2026 issue of relief asks in many voices how we might best carry on buy now for over a decade relief has helped shape the landscapes of faith and imagination for readers around the world in our annual print journal we feature fiction creative nonfiction poetry graphic narrative and reviews by some of today s finest literary practitioners alongside emerging voices we also publish new reflections on our substack meditations by diverse writers pondering our contemporary moment through the rich lenses of art and faith learn more from the blog blog aaron brown october 24 2025 letters from brett a poet and professor remembered ten years later aaron brown october 24 2025 his guidance was gone the number of emails we had sent each other was now fixed read more aaron brown october 24 2025 william coleman february 26 2025 fern hill william coleman february 26 2025 here he was in the form within which he could play and be where he could flourish in the tension between past and present now and death grief and paradise read more william coleman february 26 2025 katie karnehm esh july 13 2024 in memorium johnathan macgregor katie karnehm esh july 13 2024 last summer i did a reiki session at a yoga retreat twenty miles from lake michigan where the woman doing the treatment said you have a real battle between your head and your heart afterwards all i wanted to do was cry walk in the woods and stare at lake michigan reiki felt like an emotional bypass of my brain that went straight to my heart poetry i think is like that your heart feels the impact before your brain i probably think that because of a writer named jonathan macgregor read more katie karnehm esh july 13 2024 tania runyan february 28 2024 art faith image journal tania runyan february 28 2024 when i came across image s tenth anniversary issue in a barnes noble in 1999 i d been failing to navigate my separate worlds of faith and imagination in an authentic way it s a story i would share with a cadre of lifelong friends i d meet at glen workshops throughout my forties read more tania runyan february 28 2024 william coleman february 14 2024 fast car william coleman february 14 2024 what i felt was how deeply the song pierced me even as i could remember how deeply it pierced me when i was twenty like any classic the song s relevance ages with us read more william coleman february 14 2024 abigail chandler april 1 2022 preacher s kid and the importance of identity abigail chandler april 1 2022 abigail franklin has been telling me for the better part of a year that i need to listen to preacher s kid by semler i put it on in the background a few months ago and thought yeah i like this sound but last week i reflected through the entirety of the ep reading the lyrics along with it and looking up anything that didn t make sense read more abigail chandler april 1 2022 sarah sanderson november 15 2020 making art in the midst of crisis pandemic and tolkien s leaf by niggle sarah sanderson november 15 2020 i too find myself living in an age of anxiety tolkien worried that the nazis would drop a bomb on him before his work was done i doomscroll my national state and local covid numbers daily read more sarah sanderson november 15 2020 shemaiah gonzalez october 15 2020 second degree joy shemaiah gonzalez october 15 2020 my mother loved the sound of the sea listening to its rhythm subdued memories that shifted in her heart and soothed pain she carried in the present there weren t many books on our shelves at home but there were bits of the sea sand dollars bleached white in the sun starfish and coral with their neon colors and iridescent abalone mementos from childhood vacations read more shemaiah gonzalez october 15 2020 kirk reedstrom march 27 2020 quarazines kirk reedstrom march 27 2020 these are strange days the likes of which we ve never seen we ve been overwhelmed by the hot takes the long reads and think pieces even the best ones read more kirk reedstrom march 27 2020 read more reviews reviews a review of diana woodcock s poetry collection holy sparks read more on the strange birds of flannery o connor ping zhu s illustrations with their distorted perspective cartoonish drawings and expansive colorful stretches of empty space would grab the attention of a four to nine year old the age group that both picture books and easy readers target read more flannery o connor the habit of attention alzanaur s story celebrates the beauty of strangeness affirming a truth every child and adult instinctively knows and ping zhu s illustrations make that beauty fully present to the reader in her captivating depictions of children books and birds of several kinds read more 2020 in poetry my favorite poetry texts of 2020 offered places to burrow into comfort without entering echo chambers they charged through the overgrowth clearing any number of paths i wished to take through rage sorrow and desire to somewhere resembling peace and affirmation read more the history of words is not the history of sound a review of after june by charity gingerich charity gingerich s debut collection of poetry is a case study in rhythms the poems are filled to bursting with landscapes and choral hymns while the poet s own internal rhythms pulse and hum just below the surface the tension between these interior and exterior worlds and the struggle to keep their rhythms in sync form the emotional core of after june read more reading hope in a pandemic a review of amy peterson s where goodness still grows i have recommended this book to so many people for two reasons peterson s reclamation of evangelical ideas and her advocacy of women she unblinkingly tackles evangelical failings race sexuality indigenous rights and poverty to name a few read more the solemn sea jeremiah webster somewhere along the way we have come to believe that a poet s natural habitat is a coffee shop where maintained and caffeinated by well trained baristas he can brood in private and pace his mind in tiny circles without breaking free to harm the general populace so when mr webster came to town it seemed only fitting however stereotypical to meet him where he might feel most at home and discuss his latest poem the solemn sea read more mysteries of the guild reviewing gene wolfe s the book of the new sun wolfe elicits the praise of other novelists because he wields the powers they prize most both as readers and fellow craftspeople subtlety complexity a virtuosic handling of language all married to a control that focuses the laser of his genius into the cutting of something greater than the sum of its parts i suspect writers of speculative fiction love him with a special love because he is both the instantiation and justification of their much maligned subculture read more the book of kells barbara crooker the book of kells winner of poetry by the sea s 2018 best book award by acclaimed poet barbara crooker is her most luminous multi layered collection yet granted two writing fellowships at the tyrone guthrie centre in annaghmarkerrig ireland crooker spent time there researching observing and writing about the ancient illuminated manuscript read more read more banner artwork on homepage by suzanne dittenber relief a journal of art faith for over a decade relief has helped shape the landscapes of faith and imagination for readers around the world in our annual print journal we feature fiction creative nonfiction poetry graphic narrative and reviews by some of today s finest literary practitioners alongside emerging voices we also occasionally publish new reflections on our blog meditations by diverse writers pondering our contemporary moment through the rich lenses of art and faith 2022 relief journal