Faith in Literature and Art l Ruminate Magazine

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).