An Unexpected Journal

Celebrating the Living Witness of People and Places of the Christian Faith
Saints and sanctuaries are critical parts of the Christian experience. We learn from those who have gone before or walk alongside us. When the mission becomes exhausting, we search for havens where we can recover and find the encouragement we need to continue. This issue seeks to celebrate the Christian journey; it considers many people who have traveled in ways we can learn from and the places that supported them as they carried on.

Contributors "Prelude"" Sharon Jones on a Moment of Brightness
"Saints, Suffering, and Sanctuaries from Around the World: Japan, Korea, and China"" Seth Myers on Christian Heroes in Asia
"Cathedral Cosmos: A Glance Heavenward into the Medieval Model": Jason Monroe on Avoiding Chronological Snobbery
"From Jokers to Fools: The Fire of Notre Dame as a Call to Holiness": Megan Joy Rials on Modernity, Architecture, and Hope
"Mission San José y San Miguel de Aguayo": Donald Catchings on Experiencing Sanctuary
"The Holy Dead: Saints as Sanctuaries": Joe Ricke on Physicality and Spirituality
"Sestina for Miracle-Seekers" Mary Lou Cornish on Overcoming False Piety
"Shelter in the Vine: An Unexpected Sanctuary": Charlotte Thomason on a Spiritual Haven
"Sanctuaries for the Suffering: Trauma and Imagination in Apologetics": Jesse Childress on Psychological Elements That Influence Worldviews
"Fire and Water: Three Kwansabas": Theresa Pihl on Memories of Ugandan Martyrs
"Adventure & Faith: Lessons from the Life of St. Brendan the Navigator and Bilbo Baggins": Ted Wright on Voyages and Ventures
"Rest and Reemergence: Rivendell As a Sanctuary": Zak Schmoll on Healing and Pressing on
"Unforsaken: Fantasy, Providence, and the Silence of God": Clayton R. Conder on Finding Clarity through the Strange
"Ode to Francis": John Tuttle on a Saint to Study
"But It's Not Fair": Annie Nardone on Lessons from Boethius
"The Offering of St. Ignatius": Annie Crawford on Enduring Pain for God's Glory
"The Kingdom of Kings and Queens: A Parable": Jesse Baker on a Transformational Encounter
"The Voyage of the Titan": Zak Schmoll on Wanting Something Better
Cover Art
Our cover illustration was created by Chilean artist, apologist, and physician Virginia de la Lastra. The stained glass panel illustrates the beginning of the Great Struggle with the Fall and the saints which led the charge when the tide began to turn in the Great Reversal: Joseph, Mary, and John the Baptist.

Spring 2022
Volume 5, Issue 1
300 pages