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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.

Chewing on Life, Faith, and Art in 2011

Dear friends,

Hello and Happy New Year! Ruminate has had an incredible 2010 thanks to the support of you all, our community. The community response to last year’s year-end appeal generated enough money to support the work of Ruminate for almost the entire 2010 year, enabling us to add a new design to the magazine, host youth and adult poetry workshops, represent Ruminate at three national writing conferences, and publish our biggest issue ever!  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.  (And if you have already made a year-end donation to Ruminate, thank you so much!)

Some Good News: Ruminate in Sojourners Magazine

Ruminate was recently featured (along with several of our other publishing friends) in a wonderful article in Sojourners Magazine on “The Borderlands of Publishing” by Julie Polter. Polter examines the important work that Ruminate and some of peers are doing in encouraging the Christian art and literary community. The print version is lovely and I highly recommend picking up a copy at your local newsstand–Sojourners is a great publication. Or you can read the article online here.  You need to register your email to read it, but registration is free. Enjoy!

2009 Annual Update

In a Bird Blind

Past art contributor Steven David Johnson just sent us an email and said: “…I brought the latest Ruminate with me to the river while I was waiting around in my bird blind for the sun to rise…”