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“A voice is heard in Ramah”

A Poem of Lament
Hannah Comerford
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Issue 48
Article

“I survived the Holocaust, you know.”

“That’s why I don’t like questions. The Germans asked so many questions.”
Gina Castell
5 min read time
Article

Sitting Seven

When the funeral ends, the “shiva” begins.
Tammy Priest
4 min read time
Article

The Seventies Suck

A winning entry of the 2021 Fathom Writing Contest
Tracy Line
6 min read time
Short Story

A Descant for St. Simeon

A short story
Fred McGavran
10 min read time
Article

Priests in Garden Clogs

I wonder: how would I live life differently if I dressed each day in the robes of a priestess?
Elise Tegegne
4 min read time
Article

The Story-Shaped Life

An interview with author-publisher K.B. Hoyle
Aarik Danielsen
5 min read time
Article

They entered the horror of death alongside us.

Sympathy is the most meaningful helplessness in the world.
Cas Andersen
5 min read time
Short Story

The Rise and Fall of the Imago Dei?

Assessing Evangelical Theology and Practice
Dr. Carmen Joy Imes
24 min read time
Article

The Woman Who Watched Me Cry

I should have thought “This is hell,” but instead I thought, “Jesus is here.”
Sarah Willard
4 min read time
Article

Spotify Playlist | Sympathy

Aarik Danielsen
0 min read time
Article

Welcome Art Wednesday by Russ Ramsey to Fathom

A new column is here!
Kelsey Hency
2 min read time
Article

Reading to Behold

A Review of “The Scandal of Holiness” by Jessica Hooten Wilson
Justin Lonas
5 min read time
Article

There’s Purpose in Pleasure

An essay adapted from John Onwuchekwa’s new book, “We Go On.”
John Onwuchekwa
4 min read time
Poem

Let my words

Michael Stalcup
1 min read time
Poem

Good Friday, Early Spring

Nora Kirkham
1 min read time
Poem

Liturgy

Sharon Mitchell
1 min read time
Article

A Music You Never Would Have Known to Listen For

I had enjoyed poetry, but I never embraced it as a spiritual discipline.
Rachel Lonas
5 min read time
Article

And Reality Broke

A Review of “Sea of Tranquility” by Emily St. John Mandel
Micah Rickard
4 min read time
Poem

Sustenance

Rebecca Olsen
1 min read time
Article

Nope, It Don’t Mean Vanity

An excerpt of Russell Meek’s new book “Ecclesiastes and the Search for Meaning in an Upside-Down World”
Russel Meek
7 min read time
Poem

The Complex and Perplexing Nature of Sympathy

A Three Poem Set
Susan Cowger
1 min read time
Article

Keep riding the train.

“I wonder why she picked you—you were obviously a foreigner.”
Porter Huddleston
5 min read time
Article

A Cabin Built by the Rockies

Four generations of enchantment with the Colorado Rockies makes up the foundation of my faith.
Lexie Coyle
4 min read time
Article

The Nature of Motherhood

May I never stop looking for meaning in motherhood, because I have been given the gift of finding it.
Dani Nichols
4 min read time
Poem

Like Love

Grace Shaw
1 min read time
Article

Escape

Radha Vyas
4 min read time
Poem

Fox World

F.C. Shultz
1 min read time
Poem

Friends Who Sit

Amanda Gott
1 min read time
Poem

Sympathy

Johanna Caton
1 min read time
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