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Issue 62: Open Hands

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Releasing in June 2022 As winter transitions into spring and summer once again, we consider what it means to approach the world with open hands....

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Issue 61: Beginnings and Endings

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Over the last year and a half, we have all found ourselves in a period with a clear beginning but an indefinite, elusive end. Life...

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Issue 60: At Sea

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The writers and artists whose work makes up Ruminate issue 60 probe the imagery and metaphor of being at sea. Whether it is being at...

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Issue 59: Forged

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In the midst of the pressures of this past year, many of us have experienced what it is to be stripped down to essentials. Something...

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Issue 58: What Remains

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In the face of the immense grief that surrounds us, for this issue Ruminate Magazine editors decided to explore What Remains. “Everything is held together with stories,” writes...

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Issue 57: Mend

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**NEW E-JOURNAL AVAILABLE BELOW** Issue 57: Mend investigates what needs to be mended, who does the mending, and how we might mend. As Megan Merchant...

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Issue 56: Expression

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***NEW E-JOURNAL AVAILABLE BELOW*** Issue 56 celebrates Expression—varieties of expression, shifts in expression, and our desire and resolution to express even when under constraints.Featuring the...

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Issue 55: Under Pressure

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***NEW E-JOURNAL AVAILABLE BELOW*** Issue 55 examines how we are individually or collectively Under Pressure—in our relationships, in our communities, in our world. How do...

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Issue 54: The Everyday

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***NEW E-JOURNAL AVAILABLE BELOW*** Issue 54: The Everyday celebrates Ruminate's focus on finding the sacred within everyday moments and routines. “The commonplace is the thing," the painter Andrew...

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Issue 53: Shelter

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***NEW E-JOURNAL AVAILABLE BELOW*** Issue No. 53: Shelter features fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and art exploring the universal longing for home and safety as well as questions...

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Issue 52: In Transit

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***NEW E-JOURNAL AVAILABLE BELOW*** Issue 52: In Transit explores moving between states, birth/death, vulnerability, safety, and home. To purchase the e-journal simply click on the green buy...

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Issue 51: Consume

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***NEW E-JOURNAL AVAILABLE BELOW*** Our summer issue No. 51 thoughtfully and bravely engages the topic of "Consume." In preparing this issue, we heard all kinds of stories from...

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Issue 50: What Sustains

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***NEW E-JOURNAL AVAILABLE BELOW*** In this our 50th Issue, we're exploring what sustains us as writers, artists, contemplatives, humans. We're celebrating the contemplative and intentional processes needed for...

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Issue 49: Mattering

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***NEW E-JOURNAL AVAILABLE BELOW*** What matters in this world? We are all always asking this question whether we realize it or not, and it's a...

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Issue 48: Exposure

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***NEW E-JOURNAL AVAILABLE BELOW*** Issue No. 48 is inspired by the winning short stories from our 2018 William Van Dyke Short Story Prize, and it features...

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Issue 47: Hauntings

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***NEW E-JOURNAL AVAILABLE BELOW*** Issue No. 47 is inspired by the winning creative nonfiction from our 2018 VanderMey Nonfiction Prize, and it features stories and...

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Issue 46: A Way Through

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***NEW E-JOURNAL AVAILABLE BELOW*** This issue does not reveal the way through or even promise that one exists. Nor does it advise how one should get through...

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Issue 45: Unfinished

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***NEW E-JOURNAL AVAILABLE BELOW*** We are sold out of Issue 45 print journals, please purchase your e-journal below. Our world loves completion. We strive to...

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Issue 44: Small

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***NEW E-JOURNAL AVAILABLE BELOW*** The small, ordinary moments are the measure of our lives—the choices we make to grow our worlds or to contract them....

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Issue 43: Opening the Door

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***NEW E-JOURNAL AVAILABLE BELOW*** Life is full of open and closed doors—those moments when we did or didn't extend kindness to ourselves, to friends, to family, or to...

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Issue 42: Forming One Another

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***NEW E-JOURNAL AVAILABLE BELOW*** We are sold out of Issue 42 print journals, please purchase your e-journal below. Life is full of interactions, moments of connection...

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Issue 41: And The Soul Felt Its Worth

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***NEW E-JOURNAL AVAILABLE BELOW*** We know what it feels like to question our self worth, to wonder if we're enough. Issue 41 is an invitation...

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Issue 40: Nowhere Near

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***NEW E-JOURNAL AVAILABLE BELOW*** (Limited number of print copies left) Sometimes we find ourselves nowhere near the place we most want to be. In that moment...

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Issue 39: Magnificent Frailty

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***NEW E-JOURNAL AVAILABLE BELOW*** For this issue of Ruminate, we explore life's magnificent frailty. What sublime experiences make us recognize the frailty of life? How is it possible...

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Issue 38: Paying Attention (10th Anniversary)

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In our 10th anniversary issue, we're exploring what it means to notice ourselves and our world—to be playfully curious, to say yes to wonder, slowing...

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Issue 37: Being Known

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***NEW E-JOURNAL AVAILABLE BELOW*** For this issue of Ruminate, we explore what it means to be known. How can we know ourselves and those around us? When have we remembered...

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Issue 36: Writ in Water

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***NEW E-JOURNAL AVAILABLE BELOW*** Our simple presence can transcend barriers, can be written in water, flowing perfectly into gaps or over barriers. In issue 36 our contributors...

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Issue 35: A Loss For Words

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***NEW E-JOURNAL AVAILABLE BELOW*** There is so much than we can ever say, and we must still try to say. In this issue, our contributors...

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Issue 34: Keeping Things Whole

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***NEW E-JOURNAL AVAILABLE BELOW*** “Your faith has made you whole.” In this issue, our contributors explore what it means to long for wholeness in a...

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Issue 33: Artist as Seer

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***NEW E-JOURNAL AVAILABLE BELOW*** Sometimes, artists can serve as a kind of seer, a person who cultivates a certain quality of attention, who practices wonder...

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Issue 32: Clearing It Out

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***NEW E-JOURNAL AVAILABLE BELOW*** “What I think is she wakes up one morning and clears it all out.” The winner of this issue’s nonfiction prize,...

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Issue 31: Always, We Begin Again

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***NEW E-JOURNAL AVAILABLE BELOW*** There is so much grace in beginning again. The weight of repetition can sometimes feel like a burden or boring, but repetition...

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