Macrina Magazine

29/03/2024

Read D. Brendan Johnson's Holy Week essay, "Triduum at the Coroner's Office," at the link below.

Every day at the coroner’s office offers its strange fruit, its fresh harvest of the dead. Brought in overnight in bodybags and ambulances, they fill the freezer before the next day’s autopsies begin: from every corner of the county, from nursing homes, emergency departments, from apartments, fr...

23/03/2024

The obliteration of Gaza continues. Read Alain Epp Weaver's essential essay, "The Church's Worship in Gaza," at the link below.

اعْطِنَاخُبْزَنَا كَفَافَ يَوْمِنَا. A’atina khubzana kafafa yawmina. “Give us today our daily bread.” My fluency in the Arabic liturgy I learned in the pews of Gaza’s Holy Family Catholic church in the late 1990s has mostly vanished. What remains is the Lord...

31/01/2024

Read Beth Downey's personal essay, "Winter Kintsugi," at the link below.

Our last summer in St John’s, my husband and I lost the baby we’d been longing for. Years of trying had led to this, my most complicated experience of ‘going home empty-handed.’ I boarded the ferry I did not want to board, to leave a cultural home I had just started rebuilding, and gradually...

25/01/2024

Read C. Phifer Nicholson Jr's essay, "Rooted," at the link below.

In the New Testament, Jesus encounters a rich young man who asks what he must do to inherit eternal life.1 He has upheld all the commandments but wonders if he must do more. Jesus then says, “You lack one thing; go, sell what you own, and give the money to the poor, and you will have treasure in h...

18/01/2024

Read Chase Padusniak's retrospective on the Christmas season, by way of Ingmar Bergman's F***Y AND ALEXANDER, at the link below.

If Dickens is a moralist, then Bergman is a reprobate. And Dickens, whatever the quality of his prose and his talent for naming, is a moralist, though a sentimental one. No wonder he warms our hearts each Christmastide, a time in which the most pious and least devout unite in anti-humbug cheer. I am...

15/12/2023

Read Anton Schauble's reflection on the state of contemporary philosophy at the link below.

https://www.macrinamagazine.com/posts/the-profession-called-philosophy

08/12/2023

Check out the newest poem from Nichola Kowald, "There is no death, only the dying," at the link below.

https://www.macrinamagazine.com/posts/there-is-no-death-only-the-dying

06/12/2023

Read Sue Sorensen's critical review of Zadie Smith's latest novel, The Fraud, at the link below.

https://www.macrinamagazine.com/posts/is-zadie-smith-all-right-puzzling-over-the-fraud

30/11/2023

Check out Isaac Kuhl-Schlegel's essay, "A Pilgrim's Way of Loving the World," below.

https://www.macrinamagazine.com/posts/a-pilgrims-way-of-loving-the-world

28/11/2023

Read Maxwell Kennel's essay, "Metaphysics of the Book," at the link below!

https://www.macrinamagazine.com/posts/metaphysics-of-the-book

24/11/2023

Read Sofia Bouma's personal essay, "Sonder: The Living and the Dead," at the link below.

https://www.macrinamagazine.com/posts/sonder-the-living-and-the-dead

21/11/2023

Read Alain Epp Weaver's "Hope Buried in Gaza?"—a piece that offers a glimpse into Palestinian responses to the destruction of their land and way of life—at the link below.

https://www.macrinamagazine.com/posts/hope-buried-in-gaza

19/11/2023

17/11/2023

Read Yannick Imbert's two poems—"Commodore" and "Dauphin & 12th"—at the link below.

https://www.macrinamagazine.com/posts/commodore-dauphin-12th

14/11/2023

Read Chase Padusniak's proactive essay, "The Most Christian Movie You've Never Seen," at the link below.

https://www.macrinamagazine.com/posts/the-most-christian-movie-youve-never-seen

11/11/2023

Read Mary Elliot's poem, "Jacob Wrestles with God and Demands the Incarnation," at the link below.

https://www.macrinamagazine.com/posts/jacob-wrestles-with-god-and-demands-the-incarnation

09/11/2023

Read our latest from Stephen Surh at the link below.

28/10/2023

We're back with two brand new pieces! Links are below.

The first, a personal essay from our very own Kari Martin, explores the phenomenological possibilities of "moviegoing."

The second, from Sarah Livick-Moses, is a poem titled "Breath."

25/10/2023

Macrina is accepting your submissions, once again! Visit our new submissions portal at macrinamagazine.com/essay-submissions

24/10/2023

Mozy on over to http://macrinamagazine.com to see our new website, which is now live! New publications coming later this week.

Now would be a great time to send us the written work you've been working on.

Macrina Magazine is nurturing critical engagement with religion, philosophy, and culture.

06/09/2023

You may have noticed that the website has been down for a few weeks. The publication, including all of your written work, is NOT disappearing from the face of the earth. We are currently migrating and re-designing the website to prepare for a fresh start this Fall. Stay tuned for more updates!

A further reminder: we are still accepting submissions! In addition, we are resuming the process of regularly evaluating submissions (including submissions from the past year). Until the new website and submission form is available, please send submissions to [email protected]

04/03/2023

Update from the Associate Editors:

14/11/2022

Katie Sampias imaginatively re-enters into the Gospel story of Jesus healing Jairus’ daughter.
Visit our website to read her full short story.

Katie Sampias is a mother of three living in Brisbane, Australia. She loves imaginative prayer and exploring the gospels from women's points of view. More of her writing can be found on her website whitewaves.net

19/10/2022

Our Managing Editor Kayla just devoured Micheal O’Siadhail’s marvellous, new poetry volume ‘Testament’, and she thinks you should too.

Read her review on our website.

18/10/2022

While on holiday in Greece, poet Peter Lilly had what he can only describe as a profound spiritual experience while collecting pebbles and shells with his wife and (then) two-and-a-half year old son. This is what he wrote about it. Visit our website to enjoy more of Lilly’s poetry.

18/10/2022

Given the centrality of the consumption of wheat in the Mass, what is a Catholic Christian with Celiac’s Disease to do? Emma Cieslik discusses the history of wheat and bread in the Catholic Church and how this has contributed to Polish folklore traditions like the Opłatki.

Visit our website for the full piece.

13/10/2022

Catherine Bartholet’s dramatic poem ‘For Heavenly Wisdom.’ Catherine is an Episcopal layperson who loves poetry and God. Visit our website to enjoy her full poem.

11/10/2022

Kendra Housel wants us to remember what it was like when we first learned to lament, or perhaps, began to see the need for lament for the brokenness of our world.

Read her full reflection on our website.

16/09/2022

To Scot Moir, it is only in recovering this vision of the Fathers, a world flooded with divine Presence, that we might be able to find freedom from the spiritual emptiness in which we've found ourselves. Here, he uses Quixote as a foil for the Church reengage with the sacramental worldview of the early Church Fathers, who saw the whole creation as "enchanted" (filled) with the presence of God.

Scot Moir is a writer and chaplain in Steinbach Manitoba, Canada. He studied theology at Providence University College and Theological Seminary.

14/09/2022

A finalist in the 2022 J.F. Powers Prize in Fiction, this story tells about caring for others and the reflection of that goodness back on us — what might be called God's love.

Mitchell Toews lives beside a lake in the Manitoba boreal forest. He writes fiction and creative nonfiction and enjoys examining the lives of those who feel like they're rapeling from a burning chopper but their real conflict is mostly about who forgot to put the rubber band back on the cheese wrapper. ("It gets stale!") His collection of short stories, "Pinching Zwieback" will be releaed in spring 2023 by Winnipeg's At Bay Press.