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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Poems on Living
It was the wind, when first it grew,
that carried news of rain that brewed;
it made the sun more true.
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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…
Outcry: Creating to Resist Despair
After four days of hiking and kayaking in the Montana wilderness with my oldest son, Oliver, I was wiped out, but in the best possible way. He’d just graduated from college in Seattle…
Blessed are the Imaginative
Lately, I have been particularly taken by two quotes. The first is a thought from epic poet and friend Malcolm Guite, who said, “The imagination is a truth-bearing faculty alongside reason.” The reason I am spending time with this quote is that HopeWords is currently planning a conference…
Yoda, Eliot, and the Art of Trying
I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that George Lucas isn’t the literary master that T.S. Eliot was. I know, I know, it’s a controversial opinion, but I’m sticking by it…
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