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RUMINATE is a 60+ page literary and arts magazine printed four times a year on gorgeous paper that is FSC-Certified and with handsome 4-color art reproductions. With fresh content and hand-wrought design we hope to create an intimate alternative to the standard literary journal and challenge lots of assumptions about “spiritual” literature and art. So come, ruminate, and chew on life with us!

“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

“The language is ruminative and sharp at once, and the evocation of these states of mind and spirit is quite well done…resonant and mysterious.” (Bret Lott, on “The Smallest of These” from Issue 11)

“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)