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Dear Reader, Dorothy Sayers described the artist’s act of creation as a trinity. The creative mind, she said, brings together “experience, expression, and recognition: the un-knowable reality in the experience; the image of that reality known in its expression; and power in the recognition.” Through the artist’s work, she said, we learn something about ourselves: “This recognition of truth....is new, startling, and perhaps shattering, and yet it comes to us with a sense of familiarity.”* Communiqué publishes fiction, art, poetry, and commentary you may find new or even startling. However, we hope that in these works you also will discover a sense of familiarity – and, perhaps, the revelation of new truths. Our first issue of 2006 features two new works of fiction. In The Holy Adultery, a short work of fiction by Ryan J. Jack McDermott, an incident that causes shame and disgrace is the catalyst for redemption. In A Field of Grace by Emily Vasquez, a misunderstood young woman finds kindness and mercy in an unlikely setting. In an excerpt from Searching for God Knows What Donald Miller pens his thoughts on Romeo and Juliet and Shakespeare's prophetic voice. We also offer new works from Steve Baliko, the Communiqué poet-in-residence, along with a retrospective on Chariots of Fire and a review of The Coffeehouse Gospel. This Holy Week, let us pause to thank our heavenly Father, both for the power of the resurrection and for the power of creativity.
*From “Toward a Christian Esthetic” in The Whimsical Christian. The Staff of Communiqué Journal
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