Ruminate Magazine

A new literary art magazine fills a void its founders see in Christian publications. Ruminate: Faith in Literature and Art is the creation of Brianna McCabe Van Dyke ’04, editor-in-chief, who met her husband, Jonathan Van Dyke ’03, consulting editor, while at Westmont . . . Read the full review.

Ruminate magazine exhibits potential

"Ruminate was created for every person who has paused over a good word, a real story, a perfect brushstroke, longing for the significance they point us toward," according to its mission statement.

The art of religion is often lost on a campus engrossed with faith, reason and justice.

Yet, for one who finds himself or herself expressing their faith through literature and art, Ruminate magazine may be a viable solution. . . . Read the full review.

Flannery O’Connor wrote that the Christian writer must “feel life from the standpoint of the central Christian mystery: that it has, for all its horror, been found by God to be worth dying for. But this should enlarge not narrow his field of vision.” Just such an enlarged vision is exactly what a reader will find in the sixth issue of Ruminate: Faith in Literature and Art. . . . Read the full review.

With the slogan “chewing on life,” the premier issue of Ruminate intends to present readers with works of fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and visual art that “resonate with the complexity and truth of the Christian faith.” . . . Read the full review.

Ruminate publishes “work that accounts for the grappling pleas, as well as the quiet assurances of an authentic faith.” They mean Christian faith, but you don’t have to be a Christian to enjoy the thought-provoking poetry and prose in the current issue . . . Read the full review