Yearly Archives 2011

2011 Visual Art Prize Winners

Ruminate is proud to announce the winners from our first annual art competition The 2011 Visual Art Prize winners, as selected by finalist judge Sandra Bowden. The finalists for the visual art contest were selected by the Ruminate staff. Congratulations to the winners and finalists! First place was awarded $500 cash prize and first, second and honarable mention artists were awarded publication in Ruminate‘s Issue 22: Up in the Air.

First Place

Micah Bloom, interventions series

Second Place

David Bogus, “Optimist Luggage”

Honorable Mention

Nancy Teague, “Have a Chair”

Prayers for Artists

I had the opportunity to think about God’s creation and creative abilities during a recent Bible study meeting. I was astounded, probably again, by God’s awesome creative power. He created this entire world and everything in it–all that we see–but He did so with beauty and surprises.

In this time of advent,

Celebrating Five Years of Ruminate

Dear friends,

Hello and Merry Christmas! As 2011 draws to a close, Ruminate is reflecting on five years of constant support and encouragement from our readers, contributors, and all the writers and artists who submit their work to Ruminate: thank you. The generosity of this community has carried us from an editor’s dream to the reality of a publication that reaches thousands across the globe. We have spent this past year strengthening our commitment to engaging faith through art and literature, using your gifts to add a book review department to the magazine, host a writing workshop with Tony Woodlief, sponsor our first annual Visual Art Prize and Nonfiction Prize, and, for the first time ever, pay our contributors!

With your help, Ruminate will enter confidently into its next five years as “one of the finest publications covering the intersection of art and faith” (Banner Magazine). As you think about your year-end giving, we hope you will prayerfully consider Ruminate’s needs for the coming year and make a tax-deductible donation—help us continue chewing on life, faith, and art.

D.S. Martin’s Poiema & Sally Rosen Kindred’s No Eden

Everyone has a few, unforgettable first encounters with this or that poet. A few of these occasions come under the noblest circumstances (e.g. that instant you comprehended, in a flash, the whole Blakean cosmology). Others arrive in the “ig-noblest” moments

What Makes a Home

Last week when leaving for work, I had to squeeze by a bunch of construction machinery on my street. As I got closer, I noticed a small crowd of people on the opposite side of the street, taking pictures or just huddled together staring in the early morning cold. Then I noticed what they were gaping at.