Poetry

"Our Faith II" by George Prochnik
"Elvis/Jesus" by Cynthia Frazier
"A Disappearing People" by Moshe Benarroch
"The Hair of Fate in Bitter Eyes" by Janet Buck
"Evening Raga" by Ahila Sambamoorthy
"Accepting the Habit" by Jennifer Lagier
"Magi" by Michael H. Lythgoe

Macro-Fiction

An excerpt from her new novel, "Kleopatra" by Karen Essex

Micro-Fiction

"Communion" by Mary Bess Dunn
"The Focus of the Thousand Mile Stare" by Seth Brady Tucker

Commentary

Rachel Barenblat finds the question "What makes one a Jew?" increasingly more complex, as she encounters "Religious Pluralism in Israel."

Richard Weems plunges into Japanese pools of Melt-Banana frenzy.

As I See It

"Apocalypso non Troppo" Daryl Lease finds Jerry Falwell and the Anti-Christ linked together again. Coincidence?

Book Lovers

Book Reviews by Candace Moonshower and Wendy Dorsel Fisher
Candace Moonshower reviews Spellbound: Women and Witchcraft in America while Wendy Dorsel Fisher explores the visceral, stump-filled realm of Andrew Hudgins' Babylon in a Jar.

What To Read
So many books come out each year, and it's difficult for readers to know what to expect at bookstores next, much less what's any good. Here's our Fiction Editor's picks from the list of upcoming winter and spring releases.

Sound Bites

Music Reviews by Jill Hill & Carey Potash  with
Cary Potash determines the 'frosty shake' worthiness of Grant Lee Buffalo's Jubilee and appreciates the malted ballsiness of Chocolate Genius's Black Music. Jill Hill finds little to preach to the choir about on the Mormon Tabernacle Choir's Rock of Ages and much in Sequentia's Canticles of Ecstasy that might appeal to fans of medieval music (or someone wishing to drive neighborhood dogs insane).

Remote Control

Nick Burton embarks on a film-fueled spiritual journey as he reads things into Pasolini's The Gospel According to Saint Matthew, visits Buñuel's Simon of the Desert, contemplates Bae's Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East? and examines why there's no need to exorcise Russell's The Devils.

Zine Reviews

Searching for enlightenment, but afraid you ain't nothing but a hound dog? Kimberly Wright finds a good first stop on your spiritual journey at the First Presleyterian Church of Elvis the Divine.

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