The Conference on Christianity & Literature

Journal Staff

Editors
Paul J. Contino
Maire Mullins
Pepperdine University

Book Review Editor
Paul J. Contino
Pepperdine University

Poetry Editor
Julia S. Kasdorf
Pennsylvania State University

Managing Editor
Tammy Ditmore
Pepperdine University

Editorial Advisory Board
Ann W. Astell
Purdue University

Jewel Spears Brooker
Eckerd College

John D. Cox
Hope College

Michael Edwards
College de France

René Girard
Stanford University

Giles B. Gunn
University of California

Susan A. Handelman
Bar-Ilan University

Margaret P. Hannay
Siena College

Kevin Hart
University of Virginia 

Peter S. Hawkins
Boston University

David Lyle Jeffery
Baylor University

Janet Larson
Rutgers University, Newark

Donald G. Marshall
Pepperdine University

Stephen Prickett
University of Glasgow

Sanford Schwartz
Pennsylvania State University

Robert Lance Snyder
University of West Georgia

Patricia A. Ward
Vanderbilt University

Robert Louis Wilken
University of Virginia

Nicholas Wolterstorff
Yale University

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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