August 1, 2020 Volume 5: Issue 2
The Sacred in the Ordinary. That is our mission. That is what we seek to identify and to publish when we do find it. That is the path we set out upon and have tried to follow wherever it may lead.
Sometimes, the path surprises us. But we still follow it.
I do not always agree with everything that is written by our authors. I believe in the uniqueness of Jesus of Nazareth and hold firmly to the belief that He is the one and only Way to restore ourselves to a relationship with God the Father.
Still, when I first came up with the idea of this journal, I spoke with a colleague. She said, “You’re not going to limit it to Christians only, are you?”
I said, “No.” I would open the journal to other viewpoints as well as long as they held to the mission: to show the Sacred in the Ordinary.
One voice can be simple and pure. Many voices screaming at each other is a cacophony, an ugly torrent of sound. We’ve seen enough of that lately. But many voices singing together make a sound like no other. That is so even when not every voice is powerful. Together, they become a triumphal chorus.
One of the rejection letters we use most states that the writing was fine but we are unable to identify what part of the submission reflects the Sacred in the Ordinary.
Give us the Sacred. Show us how it is embodied in the Ordinary.
That’s a simple as it gets, folks.