Welcome to a new, beautiful April edition of Spirit Fire Review. The essays and poems in this issue come together to bring joy,...

A Mustard Seed Ten days ago, I met a beautiful person full of passion and personality. She was looking for one of my colleagues who had...

Incorporating the Bible as Literature Discussing religion in public schools can involve occasional tension. The role of Christian...

Those days The patterns on my bed sheet Take me back to those days When I used to sit In a nearby park With feelings of emptiness But the...

Unexpected Jesus It’s Quiet Day in Lent, a time of meditation on texts our priest reads every hour. Sun slanting through windows breathes...

BONNIE You begin like the rest of us an egg, a sperm join in the womb soft, safe. Cells duplicate each hour of the day differentiate into...

SUPPLY THE NEED The value of quiet, and a quiet place, where the body and depleted soul can droop in privacy; free of stressed...

The Missed Deadline The magazine my wife reads has launched, by the Mother’s Month, a writing contest. A married woman should report...

An instance of myself In a corner of the house, a book containing a fragment of Dante addressed to the universe, the questions he asked...

O My Heavenly Father O my Heavenly Father When You repeat Your Word to me once – It’s necessary. When You quote it twice – I should take...

THANK YOU FATHER! “For God so loved the world, That he gave his only begotten Son, That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, But...