The Peruvian Candidate
BY G CONNOR SALTER The Manchodo. International Waters. One Week Before the Meeting. The Agent was running low on supplies. Sometimes he used the portable kettle to boil seawater, but he had to wait until no one was in the storage room. The Superiors said it was always vital to avoid security risks. The Agent …...
Deus Vult
BY AVELLINA BALESTRI Tom found himself in the manor chapel as the morning sky brightened from gray to gold, with rays of pale light shining through the stained-glass windows and casting rainbow prisms upon the stone floor. He was kneeling with hands clasped tightly together, and his sword lay unbuckled beside him, a testament to …...
26 Weekends in County Jail for Protesting War Taxes: Interview with Joseph Olejak
BY G. CONNOR SALTER The question of what it means to follow God and also be a good citizen, whether to follow a society’s policy or rebel against it, has plagued Christian thinkers for centuries. Dr. Joseph Vincent Olejak, D.C., reflects on that dilemma in his new book 26 Weekends in County Jail: A Quaker …...
Book Review: What Barfield Thought by Landon Loftin and Max Leyf
By G. CONNOR SALTER What Barfield Thought: An Introduction to the Work of Owen Barfield. By Landon Loftin and Max Leyf. Cascade Books, May 2, 2023. Paperback, 126 pages. The name Owen Barfield is familiar to many fans of the Inklings—the circle of British writers who met each other through C.S. Lewis and shared their …...
The Sounds of Dust and Light
BY MICHAEL ANTHONY RE It was 1935, the autumn light long and hesitant. People passed on the street below, carrying on with lives that seemed both urgent and trivial. Somewhere warm, somewhere summer, somewhere long ago. He allowed himself a rare indulgence and thought of her. Not a clear thought, not a fully formed memory, …...
Author Interview: Christopher Villiers
BY G. CONNOR SALTER Tell us a little bit about yourself. I am a poet, editor and many other things who lives in North Devon, a beautiful if rainy district in south-western England. My poems have been published in several magazines and ended up as four books, the latest of which Versing the Mystery has …...
Book Review: Nature Poems to See By
BY G. CONNOR SALTER Nature Poems to See By: A Comic Artist Interprets More Great Poetry. Julian Peters. Plough Publishing House, March 24, 2026. Hardcover, 152 pages. Plough Publishing House, a division of the Christian community the Bruderhof (founded by Anabaptist pastor Eberhard Arnold in the 1920s), might be best known for its...
