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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Spring Keeps Asking This Question: Who Are You Becoming?
When I was too little to remember my age, I sat on a mustard yellow, long and low 1960s couch where my grandfather asked me who I wanted to be when I grew up…
You Don’t Know My Name
In the coal fields, back country / Came a briefcase down steel tracks / Mmm! Talkin’ pretty, / Pretty, pretty / Bout a dream and a plan…
Reflection on Psalm 62
My friend Jen and I stayed in Bramwell for HopeWords 2024. On Friday, before we would settle into our seats in the Granada Theater and Travis Lowe would stir in us a desire to love a place like he loved Bluefield, we decided to stop at Pinnacle Rock on our way to the evening session…
The Gift of Fear
I grew up a free-range child. Our neighborhood gang daily dared death. We swam Bear Creek lifevestless, rode stingray bikes and Tecumseh minibikes helmetless, engaged in B. B. Gun wars safety-glassless, roamed miles from home mapless. All this took place virtually parentless. Therefore, I considered myself fearless…
Strange Tales*
Hi, friend! This is Episode 1, Act 1 of Strange Tales*, a podcast/audio drama that I’ve been working on this year. The show focuses on a student journalist who begins investigating when strange things start happening at her school. It’s a little bit Veronica Mars and a little bit X-Files, if you’re a fan of either of those shows…
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