List of Published Works

Printed Issues:

Spring 1998 (Issue 1)
Fall 1998 (Issue 2)
Spring 1999 (Issue 3)
Fall 1999 (Issue 4)
Spring 2000 (Issue 4)
Fall 2000 (Issue 5)
Spring 2001 (Issue 6)
Fall 2001 (Issue 7)
Spring 2002 (Issue 8)
Fall 2002 (Issue 9)
Spring 2003 (Issue 10)
Fall 2003 (Issue 11)
2004 (Issue 12)
2005 (Issue 13)
2007 (Issue 14)
2009 (Issue 15)

Past Online Issues & Contents:

Online Easter Issue 2001 | 2003 | 2005
Online Christmas Issue 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2004
Poems for Books Contest

 

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SPRING 2000 (Issue 4)
Published



A Sense of Place (David Brunet)
A Poem For All Seasons and Accompanying Art Work (Lachlan MacDonald)
Carlos Pellicer Story (Donny Smith)
Childish Mistakes (Mary Ann Carrico-Mitchell)
Conversion on the Road after Damascus (Ruth Rodriguez Nikolic)
The Covenant (Marion Rapp)
Divided (Ida Fasel)
The Esperanto (Jamie Brolin)
God Speaks in the Silence (Ross Whitehead)
John the Baptist (Louise Weld)
Memo to the Almighty (Marjorie Maddox)
Miss Tubbs (John H. Timmerman)
Mister Wilson (Edward Leschke)
One Day She'll Love Dichondra (Robyn Parnell)
Someone to Watch Over Me (Dale Sprowl)
Summer's Passing (T.M. Moore)
Toward April (Rossme Taylor)
With the Wounded (Dwight Liles)

FALL 2000 (Issue 5) 
Published

Anticipation (Sally Jadlow)
Believe (Corbet Dean)
Breakable (Ross Yates)
Choices (Ida Fasel)
Cushions--poem (Tom Hendrix)
Cushions--art work (Penny Hendrix)
Different Church, A (Ronald Thompson)
Far Side of the Jordan, The (Jim Sanders)
Grace (David Craig)
Haec Dies (Rossme Taylor)
His Hands--art work (Gail Aggen)
Last Judgment, The (Max Money)
Live Feed From Littleton (Scott Carpenter)
Lowest Branches, The (Elizabeth Pearson)
Magdalene (Amber Hipple)
No Battle (Francis Freed)
Ocean Front (Sara Hong)
Prism (Dale Sprowl)
Proposal in the Afternoon (Robert Leo Stanley)
Rock That is Higher, The (J. Gregg Young)
Samuel to David (David Turow)
Shells (Edward Palumbo)
Staring at the Wall (William Woolfitt)
Sudden Death in the House, A (Jene Erick Beardsley)
Vibrations of Love (Lynn Roaten Terrell)
Yearning (Julia Wilkerson Burns)
When I, Someday, Walk Corridors of Peace (Faun Dallachiesa)
Who You Aren't (Gail Aggen)
Wings (David Hay)

SPRING 2001 (Issue 6)
Published

Alzheimers (Gene Fehler)
Artwork--two untitled pieces (Wendy Lu)
Carpenter (Grey)
Crooked Cross, The (Ann Walko)
Elisha's Room (Wiser)
Empathy (DiJulio)
Eulogy of Hope (DeBerry)
Fruit That Remains (Wilkerson)
Grace (Gail Aggen)
I Went to Your Grave Today (Wiser)
In Jerusalem (Ida Fasel)
Just a Color (Tom Hendrix)
Lying Chimney Sweeps (Gail Aggen)
Long Road Home, The (Floyd)
Mary of Egypt (Donna Farley)
My Cup Runneth Over (Murray)
Passage (C. David Hay)
Passing Saint, The (Wilkerson)
Pentecost (Rourke)
Permission Slip, The (Lynn Roaten Terrell)
Psalm, A (Dale Sprowl)
Sister Mary Magdalene of Poor Clare and the Shroud of Turin (Terry Coffey)
Staying in Line (Fehler)
Sunday Bells (Thomas S. Burris, Sr.)
Tourist (Ida Fasel)
Two Sparrows (Robert Leo Stanley)
Upon The Midnight Clear (Ronald McKinnon Thompson)

FALL 2001 (Issue 7)
Published

African Child Who Starved to Death (Francis Kunkle)
Art Work (Wendy Lu, Troy Tennard)
After the Marvelous Healing (Walt McDonald) 
AIDS and the Churches (Handsen Chikowore)
Beyond My Bent (Pearl Wilshaw)
Broken Wing (Traphagen)
Childhood's Fortress (Ruth Naylor) 
Dry Season (Myra Hindman)
Fire (Laura Stamps) 
Hiding (Nancy Bailey Miller) 
I Am Poured Out Like Water (Carl Jay Buchanan) 
I Would Not Disobey God (Kevin Stuart Brodie)
Jerusalem (S.E. Darby) 
Legacy (Shirley Malmgren) 
Liberator, The (Kenneth O'Keefe)
Lord's Tennis Ball (Chris Williams)
Martinique, Just Before the Fever (Roger Lewin)
Millennium (Patrick M. Cook)
Mission (Edward Palumbo)
Neighbors Who Came and Went, The (Dennis Johns) 
One Father to Another (Edward J. Rielly)
Perfect Christian (Gail Aggen)
Pilgrimage (Hope B. Green)
Postscript to Myself (Daniel Morin)
Requiem (Robert Karl Meyer II) 
Scratches On A Butcher Block (Steven M. Sloan)
Scriptures for All Needs (Warren Hamby)
Shoreline (Cherise Wyneken)
Skepticism (William Michael Fagan)

There will be two chapbooks reviewed: A Spleeny Lutheran and Amphora Full of Light

Spring 2002 (Issue 8)
Published

Artwork by Wendy Lu, Troy Tennard, Mary Frances, and Mark Kilvington

Ambrose's Final Plans (Maureen Stirsman)
A Warmth I've Never Known (Gene Fehler)

Advocations (Ida Fasel)
Call from the Clouds (Dorothy Winslow Wright)
David Soothes Saul with his Harp (Larry Lefkowitz)

Da Vinci's "The Last Supper" (Robery K. Meyer II)
For My John of the Cross (Olivia Diamond)
For Esther (Steven M. Sloan)
God Emeritus (Kevin Stuart Brodie)
Jacob's Angels (Margaret Stavely)
Judas (Robert Wooten)
Keeper of the Keys (Cherise Wyneken)
Kramskoj's Christ in the Desert (Jeff Parker)
Last Sunset, The (John M. Floyd)
Life-Sized Station of the Cross (Erin Tocknell)
Matthew was in the counting house (David Craig)
Railroaded (Maureen Tolman Flannery)
Raised Up By Love (Larry Marshall Sams)
Releases (Phubby Venable)
Sheep from the Goats, The (Kenneth O'Keefe)
Signing (Michael D. Riley)
There's No Stopping How This Will Happen to Us (David James)
Trust Me (Gail Aggen)

Fall 2002 (Issue 9)
Published

Artwork by Wendy Lu, Troy Tennard, and Ka Hung Yu
Photography by Ekaterina Svetova

The Age of Lycya (Ekaterina Svetova)
Baby Crying (Janet McCann)

Behind the Veil (Teresa Burleson)
The Body of Christ (Jeff Parker)
Communion (Richard Spilman)
Compassion (Krischke)

Dreaming of the Sun (Frederick J. McGavran)
In The Course of Time (Joyce B. Adams)
The Empowered Prophet (Kenneth O'Keefe)
Fairytales and Dustballs (M.J. King)
Finding Your Song (Bullock)
Gardeners (Lynn Behnke)
God Pursuit (Maureen Tolman Flannery)
The Judgment (Kenneth O'Keefe)

In Memoriam: Loretta (Francis L. Kunkel)
Our Father (Anne Turner)
Patting God on the Back (Gordon Purkis)
Powers of One (Ellen Roberts Young)
Reprieve (Olivia Diamond)
Roses and Thorns (R.J. Blair)
Salvation, It's a Dirty Job (Cheryl Gatling)
Silence (Wendy Brown)
Snow and Golden Flowers (Dorothy Winslow Wright)

The Surf (Christoper Ribaudo)
A Well Dressed Corpse (Carol Case)

Spring 2003 (Issue 10)
Published in April 2003

Abraham (Shepard)
Bearing the Mark (O' Keefe)
The Champion Retires (Fein)

Constantine on the Walls (Wilson)
God's Voice Waters the Gardens (Tocknell)
Job's Wife (Kiser)
Hosea (Henry)
Isaac's Dream (Davis)
Jeremiah (O'Keefe)
Jesus Amazed (Craig)
Job's Wife (Kiser)

Judas (O'Keefe)
Judas (Snydal)
Lazarus (Lynch)
Letter to Lydia (Patrick)
Moses on Mount Sinai and Nebo (Church)
Mother Teresa uber Alles (Feela)

On Viewing Artemisia Gentileschi's Judith . . .   (Morefield)
The Prodigal's Brother (Kolin)
Pliny to Caius Suetonius... (Schwartz)
Salamanca (Keating)
The Woman at the Well (Diamond)
Too Spiritual (Styers)

Art work by Atman Victor, Jathleen Gunton, Troy Tennard, and Wendy Lu.

Fall 2003 (Issue 11)
Published in October 2003

A Mind of Winter (Solensten)
Albatross (Whitehead)
Beneath the Burning Light (Mikus)
Duty (Zappala)
The Earliest Angel (Radasci)
Emeritus (Willis)
For Colby Anne Calore (Hanna)
Last Day (Packie)
October Flowers (Gribble)
Old Friend in Disorder (Mann)
Pear Lake Ski Hut (Willis)
Run for the Money (Steimle)
Sapphics on Christian Ethics (Myers)
Scripture (Giorgio)
Thank You (Freed)
The Code (Griffith)
The Heart of a Tree (Bolanos)
The Trouble With Prophets (Thorpe)
Written During the Year of My Cancer (Wilensky)

Art by TerryLee Whetstone, Durlab Singh, Hung Yu, and Troy Tennard

2004 (Issue 12)
Published in September 2004

Art--
The Common Man  (Rosendahl)
Cross at Picture Rocks Retreat (Gunton)
Jesus (Gray)

Prose--
The Celebration (Norris)
Della's Cellar (Floyd)
Hide and Seek (McGill)
The Pitcher (Parker)

Poetry--
Agave (Reiter)
Cracked Roots (McCraw)
Disobedience (Gordon)
Fallen to Earth (Carrubba)
For a Child Too Soon Departed (Brenner)
Full Circle (McCraw)
Grace (Thurman)
House of Stone (Landrum)
In the World to Come (Sher)
Last Time I Saw Her Was a Year Ago (Bourgeois)
Marriage of the Prophet (Adkins)
Moorings (Thurman)
My Symphony of Praise (Mings)
Omnipresent (Burleson)
Purslie (Raynor)
Sonnet for the Storm (Hollingsworth)
Statue in the Garden (Miner)
Stay (Crisafi)
Suffer the Child (Weisgarber)
Vanished Landscapes (Beltran)
The Well (Fantina)
When Winter Comes (Bounds)

2005 (Issue 13)
Published

Art/Photography--
Anything Too Hard for Me? (Sharol Rosendahl)
Illustrations (Troy Tennard)
Lotus Path (Kathleen Gunton)
Rahcel (Sharol Rosendahl)
Passion Flower (John A. Thompson, Sr.)

Prose--
Flying (William R. Hincy)
Paper Losses (Martha Crotty)
Paradise (Julie Iven)
The Garden of Ed Eden (Diane Rosier Miles)
The Macaw Bird (Greg Perrault)

Poetry--
Cloister, Recycled (Anne Bingham)
Coda (Laurie Klein)
Dolorosa (Jim Kerbaugh)
Faith (Patricia Rose Pflaumer) 
Grass Beside The Church of St. Francis Xavier (Arthur Powers)
I Will Not Bite (Truth Thomas)
In Gentle Notes Seized Stron (Ida Fasel)
Gifts (Penny Henderson)
Listen (John Grey)
Mystic Exile (Alice Lindsey)
The Old Graveyard (Kathleen Murphy)
On the Frescoes...(Gail White)
Plants that Don't Bloom (Edward J. Riley)
Prayer to You (Newton Miner)
Precious Cargo (Pamela van Rene)
A Stab at Prayer (Ed Zahniser)
There is a Season (Joy Resor)
Thief in the Night (Layra E. Bontrager)
Thomas from the Tower (Of London) Writes (Dick Hayes)



2007 (Issue 14)
Published

Poetry:

As Days Go By (Ida Fasel)      6           
Witness (Ruth Linnea Whitney)   7        
After His Fall (Ruth Linnea Whitney)    8
Ash Wednesday (Bobbi Dykema Katsanis)                 9
A Guide for the Perplexed (Frederick Zydeck)                10
Second Sight (D.J. Smith)   11
The Night My Father Died (T.A. Pitrof)       12
Hymn (Richard B. Patterson)                  13
He Appears (Anne Babson)                  14
Levi Repents (Roger Bates Kronmann) 16
Today (Laverne Frith) 17
The Ancient Order (Scott Guild) 18
Lift Up the Stone (Jonathan Harrington) 19
11:05 PM, Bispebjerg Hospital (Bobbi Dykema Katsanis) 20
Finding Definition (Pamela A. MacBean) 21
Epiphany (Mary Rudbeck Stanko) 22
Shadow Heart (Sean Lause) 23
John the Baptist Speaks from Prison (Rose Ann Spaith) 24
Joseph the Journeyman (Michael Fraley) 26
A True Story (Cindy Beebe) 27
Blessings (Taylor Graham) 28
Easter Morning (Ian Nelson) 29
Letting Go the Tiller (Bruce Allen Chamberlin) 30
Insight (Bob Hostetler) 31
Reading the Ocean (David Athery) 31
Sacred Seams (Jerome L. McElroy) 32
The Rood (Andrew H. Oerke) 33
Black and White (Cassondra Leigh Givans) 34
Decision (Donna Levine-Small) 35
Red Wings (Linda Chapleau) 36
The Call to Repentance (Douglas Talley) 37
Bright Canaan (Charles Semones) 38
Known, Yet Ever New 39
Clearing (Taylor Graham) 40
Oil Can (James B. Nicola) 41
Everyday Sacred Things (Frederick Zydek) 42
Seashell (Judith Patterson Wenzel) 43
At Ben Gurion (Jen Blair) 44
Hostage: Thoughts in Solitude 45
Child (Elizabeth Kropf) 46

Prose:

Enough (Katherine L. Jones) 48
January (Weldon Payne) 55
The Preacher’s Gift (Fred Jessett) 63
This Is Your Mom (Kathleen Lindstrom) 68
Veil of Truth (
Matthew Slykhuis) 72
Tilly and the Mouth Organ (Mary Chandler) 80
Books in Brief 86

Art & Photography: 

Old and New Religion (John A. Thompson, Sr.) cover
Angel of Welcome (Kathleen Gunton) title page
Santuario del Alma (Atman Victor) page 5
Nocturnal Friends (MelanieMonterey) page 18
Michael and the Dragon (Rod Walker) page 55
Illustration, “Enough” (Troy Tennard) page 48
Illustration “Preacher’s Gift” (Troy Tennard) page 63
Christian Woman Crying (Gale Tolf MA) page 68
Illustration, “Veil of Truth” (Troy Tennard) page 72
Illustration, “Tilly and the Mouth Organ” (Troy Tennard) page 80
Church Steeple (John A. Thomspon, Sr.) back cover

 


2009 (Issue 15)

PROSE:

Lament (Diane Rosier Miles)              6
Cathedral (Katie Lovett)              17
Small Change (Anne Kohl)              18

Pretty Plastic Flowers for Her Grave (Scot Walker)       25
 Commonplace Miracles (Ben M. Wolk)            29
The Woman on the Other Side of the Hill (Janice Alonso)              34
A History Lesson (Mark Clark) 37
Cigarettes in the Morning (Emily A. Ballstaedt)         42
Colors (Mary Chandler)        46
Marked Women (Jeff M. Sellers)    50

POETRY:

Prodigal Son (Barry W. North) 62
Ezekiel (Katie Manning) 63

 The Last Breakfast (Anne Sheldon) 64
 At Either End of the Web (Regina Murray Brault) 65
 Visitation (Charlotte F. Otten) 66
 Rebellion (Ryan Jessup) 67
 Fallen  (B. David Truksa) 67
 John (Doug Draime) 68
 Five Poems (Anna Sykora) 69
 Mama’s Stories (CC Thomas) 70
 Shapes of Things Forgotten (Chuck Miller) 71
 Who Will Come to Save Him, Now? (Barry W. North) 72
 Prayer for a Winter-hardy Flower (Jean Wiggins) 73
 Absolution (Sue Ellen Kuzma) 74
 Looking for a Star (Vonnie Winslow Crist) 75
 Inquirer (Mervyn Enguidanos) 75
 Intertwined (Karen Kelsay) 76
 De reductione omnium ad Resurrectionem (Mark Amorose) 77
 Children’s Sermon (Nancy Bailey Miller) 77
 Like Jacob (Nancy Bailey Miller) 78
 White and Red (Mary Harbin Sciascia) 78
 Carneval in Venice (Leonard H. Roller) 79
 What We Have Lost (G. Travis Regier) 80
 Tomb of My Heart (Kenny Ching) 81
 Hymn to the Creator (Eric Martin) 82
 Convergence (Jenny Walicek) 82
 How Eagerly They Do God’s Will (Henry Harlan) 83
 God Chasers (Teresa Burleson) 84
 The Miraculous (Robert Wooten) 84

ART: 

 Photography/Artwork by Kathleen Gunton: 
           “Baptism” title page
            “On a Hill 24
            “JB Window” 61

 Illustrations by Troy Tennard 13, 19, &   27

 Photography by Atman Victor:
               “La Giralda” 38
               “Mendigo” 79

 Digital Paintings by Kristina Gehrmann:
                “The Final Peace” cover
                 “Ecce Ancilla Domini” 5



2000 ONLINE CHRISTMAS ISSUE
Published in December 2000

Acrostic Church Year, The (Robert K Meyer)
Balsam (Carol White LaForet)
C-H-R-I-S-T-M-A-S (Elizabeth Pearson)
Christmas Story, A (Maya Sieminski)
Crane Flying (Rossme Taylor)
Dog and the First Christmas, The (Laura Dugan)
In The Stable (Rossme Taylor)
My Very Best Friend (Bruce Adkins)
Not Long, He Said (Ann Walko)
Perfect Christmas Tree, The (Maureen Stirsman)

2001 ONLINE CHRISTMAS ISSUE
Published in December 2001

A Greek Christmas (Aphrodite Matsakis)
A Song of Christmas (R.J. Blair)
Bethlehem (Susan Lyttek)
Blanket (Reid Bush)
Christmas Morn (Barry Blander)
Christmas Time (William Fagan)
Glory Be! (Ruth Naylor)
In the Far Distance Washington's Magnetic Power (John McKernan)
Magi (Nancy Henry)
Only Thieves Travel At Night (Dory Hudspeth)
Rage Against (James Wackett)
Riddle (Rossme Taylor)
The Christmas Women (Lynn Sadler)
Wise Journey (Partica G. Rourke)

2002 ONLINE CHRISTMAS ISSUE
Published in December 2002

A Second Look (Cornelsen)
Annunciation (Hannahan)
At the Manger (Taylor)
Christmas Past (Hay)
Epiphany (Berg)

Magi (Ahlemann)
Rushing Toward Entelechy (Buck)
When God Stepped Into Time (Blair)
El Greco's Ox (Martin)

2004 ONLINE CHRISTMAS ISSUE
Published in December 2004

With 43% of the vote, "Branches," by Susan F. Kirch-Thibando has won the title of "best short story in the Ancient Paths 2004 Online Christmas issue." Congratulations, Susan!

With 40% of the vote, "The Magi's Journey," by Stephen Scaer, has won the title of "best poem in the Ancient Paths 2004 Online Christmas issue."  Congratulations, Stephen!

This was the last online Christmas issue.  No more will be published.


2001 ONLINE EASTER ISSUE
Published in March 2001

Acrostic Church Year, The (Robert K Meyer)
Good Friday (Peter Benzoni)
Good Friday Rain (Robert Phelps)
The Nail (Thomas S. Burris, Sr.)
On the Morrow He Will Rise (S. Aaron Stewart)
Resurrection (Betty Pearson)
Resurrection, The (Beverly Russo)
Springtime Awaits (Betty Pearson)
Triumphal Entry (David Zelie)
Unbent Nails (J.D. Heskin)

2003 ONLINE EASTER ISSUE
To be published in March 2003

An Answer? (Denny James Corbin)
The Crucifixion (Margene Whitler Hucek)
The daffodils (S E Darby)
Easter Song (Cherise Wyneken)
Good Friday Counsel (Ruth Naylor)
Judas (David C. Jennings)
Lent (Philip C. Kolin)
Mary (Margaret E Lynch)
Mary Magdalen (Beverly Waller)
Mysterious Doubt (J. Brent Bill)

2005 ONLINE EASTER ISSUE
Published in March 2005
This issue is closed.

A Morning Like This (Elizabeth Howard)
Angels Stand (S.L.Z. Kunzler)
Crucifixion/Resurrection (David C. Jennings)

Easter Sunday (Julie Thorndyke)
Easter (Marianna Busching)
Easter (Ruth Lata)
I.N.R.I. (Robert Wooten)
Palm Sunday (Skylar Burris)
Skull Mountain Blues (WMojave)


POEMS FOR BOOKS CONTEST
This contest is closed.

FIRST PLACE WINNER:
"Beautiful Beloved"
by Linda Lee McDonald

SECOND PLACE WINNER:
"On Viewing Artemisia Gentileschi's 'Lot and His Daughters' at the Toledo Museum of Art"
by Kenneth R. Morefield

THIRD PLACE WINNER:
"Sister"
by Marion Rosser


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