The Conference on Christianity & Literature

Spring 2008, Volume 57, Issue 3

ARTICLES

The Parable of the Sower and Obscurity in the Prologue to Mare de France’s Lais
Monica Brzezinski Potkay

Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Preachers of the Swamp: Dred and the Jeremiad
Jacob Stratman

Hopkins and Newman: Two Disagreements
Fredric W. Schlatter

The Pilgrimages of David Lodge
J. Russell Perkin

SPECIAL FEATURE

Nathan Scott and Postmodern Testimony
William D. Buhrman

BOOK REVIEWS

Ana M. Acosta, Reading Genisis in the Long Eighteenth Century; From Milton to Mary Shelley
Leland Ryken

Heather Hill-Vásquez, Sacred Players: The Politics of Response in the Middle English Religious Drama
Erica L. Artiles

Ann W. Astell, Eating Beauty: The Eucharist and the Spiritual Arts of the Middle Ages
Michael P. Kuczynski

Peter S. Hawkins, Dante: A Brief History
William Franke

A. D. Nuttall, Shakespeare the Thinker
Grace Tiffany

Beatrice Batson, ed., Shakespeare’s Christianity: The Protestant and Catholic Poetics of Julius Caesar, Macbeth, and Hamlet
J. R. Holt

Adam Schwartz, The Third Spring: G. K. Chesterton, Graham Greene, Christopher Dawson, and David Jones
James Matthew Wilson

Donald T. Williams, Mere Humanity: G. K. Chesterton, C. S. Lewis, and J. R. R. Tolkien on the Human Condition
Larry Hunt

David Craig, Mary’s House: New and Selected Poems
Janet McCann

Crystal Downing, How Postmodernism Serves (My) Faith: Questioning Truth in Language, Philosophy and Art
Heath White

POETRY

Lo & Behold: A Psalm
Homily: Variation on a Sestina
Shanna Powlus Wheeler

What is Given
Julie L. Moore

 

 

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