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A large format, staple-bound magazine of “fiction, poetry,
nonfiction, and visual art that resonates with the complexity
and truth of the Christian faith,” Ruminate is published
in Fort Collins, Colorado. “Each issue…speaks to the existence
of our daily lives while nudging us toward a greater hope.” This
issue’s theme is “Earnest Jest,” which editor Brianna Van Dyke
describes as a way to consider the “paradox that weighty truths
can come from humor; knowledge from fools; and that very act of
play is wisdom.” The theme is played out in the work of 14 poets,
two fiction writers, and two visual artists.
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Read more... [NewPages Review of Issue 14]
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Brianna Van Dyke was riding in the car with her
husband when she turned to him and said: “I think I’m going to start a
literary magazine.” He blinked a time or two and, perhaps befitting a
guy who spends his days as a surgery tech in an animal hospital, asked:
“What’s a literary magazine?”
Van Dyke got that question a lot in 2006, the year she founded Ruminate.
It was a busy time for the now 26-year-old editor, who within months of
the magazine’s launch became a mother and a graduate student. People
wondered how she could take on so much.
But Van Dyke had a vision, and she could articulate it. Friends and
family members became investors and supporters after she described her
ideas for “a magazine of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and visual art
that resonates with the complexity and truth of the Christian faith.” . . . (Read the full story in ByFaith Magazine).
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"Only
a year old, RUMINATE is establishing itself as one of the finest
Christian magazines dedicated to the ties between faith, art, and
literature. Produced in Fort Collins, Colo., the magazine blends
reproductions of paintings and photographs with poems and short stories
through a classy design." . . . Read the full review (you must scroll down the page).
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"RUMINATE’s layout is beautiful: almost trade magazine size
but sturdier, writing centered on white or grey or black pages,
Evan Mann’s creation sketches littered between poems and an
essay and a short story. The journal’s writing is equally
beautiful, pieces which demonstrate faith inside literature as
well as faith in literature, a faith that literature can explain
and inspire." . . . Read the full review (you must scroll down the page).
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"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.
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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.
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