Mount Doom
Rowan Bay writes about feeling out of place as a gay teenager in a religious community
From the Director: What Awaits
Adam Davis writes about Locke, Hobbes, and the inevitability of death.
Editor's Note: Fear
Ben Waterhouse on telephobia and growing out of old fears and into new ones
our farm
A poem by ramona hilaria
The Still Point at Sanger Lake
Maud Macrory Powell writes about a violent event, a secret kept for fifty years, and how we react to traumatic experiences
Speaking in Tongues
Aleksandr Chernousov writes about the experience of hearing his first language turned to violent authoritarian ends and finding it anew in Oregon
The Devil, You Know
In an excerpt from Night Mother: A Personal and Cultural History of “The Exorcist”, Marlena Williams writes about satanic panics from Geraldo to QAnon
Life after Running
Astra Lincoln writes about the psychology of illness and injury among athletes.
Light Beam
A comic by Eleanor Klock about creative work, fulfillment, and despair
Broken Glass, Broken Trust
A sermon by Robert Leo Heilman first read at the Umpqua Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Roseburg in spring 2022
In the Company of Cougars
Carrie Walker writes about navigating fear and awe in the outdoors.
Posts: Fear
Short essays from readers on the topic of fear.
People, Places, Things: BLK&GLD
Portraits of family members by Oregon photographer John Adair