HopeWords Literary Journal
The HopeWords Literary Journal exists for writers, artists, and readers who long for hope and heaven and who look for timeless stories from diverse voices that all point back to the good, true, and beautiful. The HopeWords Literary Journal is not clickbait, it's not artificial, it's not breaking news. It's a community of writers, painters, preachers, thinkers, musicians, photographers, cartoonists, and storytellers who foster colorful conversations that are rooted in humble hospitality.
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Bird Cathedral by Emily Charlotte.
I can’t sleep tonight because the mourning doves are crying out and I know that, across the room, you are watching me. The birds in daddy’s aviary never keep me awake this late…
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Fall Has It’s Way of Holding Us While Helping Us To Let Go
I can hear through younger ears the way my mom’s voice moved through a room when she called me by another name: Jayboy. Inside of that sound was the knowledge that I was who I was, in the right place, at the right time…
Poetry of Hope
Hope, like love and grace, is a word that’s easy to cliché. And difficult to define. Maybe because those four letters arranged as such spell more than a dictionary can contain…
Sewing Us Back Together: Emotions, Entertainment, and Resurrection on the Late ‘The Late Show’
As someone who, shall we say, struggles to feel things, I’m never expecting tears. I usually only get to the place of even naming emotions long after they’ve passed through my system. To call it stoicism would vastly overestimate any intentionality in holding passions at bay.
Imagination Bodies Forth: Preparation for Lifting the Veil ‘26
I am glad to be able to contribute to this issue of HopeWords literary journal, and, in anticipation of our forthcoming Lifting the Veil Conference, to reflect with you on the links between evangelism and creativity…
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