Call for Submissions: Winter 2016 Edition
November 23, 2015
LiturgicalCredo is accepting submissions for the Winter 2016 Edition through Dec. 2, 2015. The edition will be released on Dec. 15, 2015.
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A brief thought about writing a complete composition
June 11, 2015
This hit me, so to speak, where I live:
“Limit situations are moments, usually accompanied by experiences of dread, guilt or acute anxiety, in which the human mind confronts the restrictions and pathological narrowness of its existing forms, and allows itself to abandon the securities of its limitedness, and so to enter new realm of self-consciousness.” — Chris Thornhill, via Karl Jaspers (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
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Deborah L. Reed’s third essay
June 14, 2011
“Heaven” is the third essay contributed by Deborah L. Reed. She currently resides in a small bedroom community in Central Texas with her daughter, grandson, and two dogs. She has had over twenty short stories published, one of which, ”Leah and Her Stuffed House,” has been nominated for a 2011 Pushcart Prize.
Please also read her previous essays: “Prayer” and “Good versus Bad.”