The Conference on Christianity & Literature

Spring 2006, Volume 55, Issue 3

Articles

Georges Bernanos: The Vocation of the Christian Writer
Mary Frances Dorschell

"I am more fit to die than people think": Byron on Immortality
Harold Ray Stevens

"The Tide's Pendulum Truth": A Reading of the Poetry of Theological Crisis from Matthew Arnold to R. S. Thomas
William V. Davis

Poetry and Faith: The Example of Elizabeth Jennings
Barry Sloan

Cold Mountain as Spiritual Quest: Inman's Redemptive Journey
Brent Gibson

Review Essays

Reading Milton Under Modernist Lights
Larry R. Isitt

The Persistence of Vision: Northrop Frye in the Context of Religion
David Gay

Poetry

The Rowers, at Rockland Lake
Linda Mills Woolsey

Pillar of Salt
Marci Rae Johnson

Oak Leaf
Scott Schuleit

Natan Birenbaum Street in Jerusalem
Rachel Berghash

Gift
Lynn Domina

 

 

Questions to Tammy Ditmore (tammy.ditmore@pepperdine.edu)

In the Latest Issue of Christianity & Literature:

What is
Given

Julie L. Moore

As though Moses himself
is standing high
upon this
Rocky Mountain cliff
poised to proclaim
once again God's law,
cars and SUVs pull over,
line up along both sides
of the national park's
concrete curve, cameras
angling, people pointing,
awestruck by a
simple white goat,
her beard and horns
marking her, unmoved
by all the commotion
hundreds of feet below.

She's just standing
where she's safe,
where her kid,
half-hidden by her side,
entices the crowd
that hungers for more
but must be satisfied,
always,
with what is given.

Spring 2008