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“A cornucopia of riches…” Luci Shaw

“Ruminate’s layout is beautiful: almost trade magazine size but sturdier, writing centered on white or grey or black pages…sketches littered between poems and an essay and a short story. The journal’s writing is equally beautiful.” Rachel King, New Pages

“A substantive and attractive magazine…” David James Duncan

“Resonant and mysterious…” Bret Lott

“RUMINATE is establishing itself as one of the finest Christian magazines dedicated to the ties between faith, art, and literature.” Otto Selles, The Banner Magazine

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…Ruminate. Armond Boudreaux, Luna Park Review

RUMINATE Breaks Stereotype of Christian Writing

ByFaith 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).