Featured Poem:
Driving Home After the Eclipse, I Make Mental Notes (1st Place in Poetry, 2025 Evangelical Press Awards; published in CRUX: A Quarterly of Christian Thought and Opinion)
—for Jacob (age 13)
What if I forget how suddenly close the moon,
how ominous, fist-solid, unbothered by all this
fuss? I must remember how deep the shadows,
how you came alongside me, like a friend.
The sky a bright bruise, and we mapped ourselves
to Jupiter, to Venus. Then, the unlookable light,
slivering open again to an outpouring.
Remember the tail lights’ slow pour, down
the mountain like lava. Recollect how buoyant
you remained. You kept laughter, held it out,
like a moon stone. Do not forget the glow
of our faces, also moons, traveling a long
road home.
And etch forever the silence that befell us
when the opossum, belonging in the dark,
could not account for the meteor of our car,
rocketing from nowhere. And your hand
in my hand as we wept for the loss.
Remember, O do not forget to remember,
the heartbeat in our clasped hands, the strong,
sorrowful pulse. Maybe mother’s. Maybe son’s.
—after Jeanne Murray Walker
Poems
- “Where will we buy food to feed these people?” / Rabbit Room Poetry
- “In a Clear Moment” / Three Decker
- “Tempering Ambition” / Grey Sparrow Journal Winter 2025
- “Forgiveness Comes in Slant” / Crab Orchard Review Spring 2025
- “Get behind me, Satan” / Anglican Theological Review
- “Unrequited” / The Windhover
- “Wrung Out God” / Ekstasis
- “This is a prayer for a door–“ / Rabbit Room Poetry
- “First Last Words” / The Rabbit Room
- “The Hardest Sound to Make” (as “Hawks and Pockets”) / Red Rock Review
- “Baptism” / The Christian Century (interview with Sarah on “Baptism” here)
- “Calling” / Letters Journal
- “A Better Gift,” “Daucus carota,” “Matins,” “Mortal Beauty” / Peacock Journal
- “Simon Hears Tell of the Crucifixion” / CRUX: A Quarterly Journal of Christian Thought and Opinion (1st prize, 2018 Evangelical Press Association Higher Goals Awards; interview with Regent College here)
Liturgies in Every Moment Holy Vol. III
- A Liturgy for One Who Works the Night Shift
- A Liturgy of (Re)Dedication to the Way of the Amateur
Prose
- An ‘Altared’ Heart: Anxiety, Prayer, Poetry and Hope During COVID-19 (listen to Sarah reading the essay here; or read on The Rabbit Room:
- “An Altared Heart: Friday”
- “An Altared Heart: Saturday”
- “An Altared Heart: Sunday”
L’Abri lectures
- No Professional Humans: Amateur Spirituality and the Way of Love
- The Importance of Paradox: Poetry, Prayer and the Life of Simon Peter (includes original poetry)
- Reflecting on the Incarnation with the Help of Poets I
- Belonging to Every Riven Thing: Reflecting on the Incarnation with the Help of Poets II
- “It was meant to be good”: Becoming More Human in the Kitchen and Around the Table
- Creative Work is Work: De-mythologizing Artistic Inspiration and the Creative Process
- Glory be to God: Word, World and Worship in the Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins
