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BEHOLD THE MAN! WINNING POEMS

Wayfare magazine congratulates the inaugural winners of “Behold the Man!,” our annual contest for poems about or related to Jesus of Nazareth.

This year’s judge was James Matthew Wilson, the Cullen Foundation Chair in English Literature a...

5 days ago
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Form as Function

“The Prayer” by Felice Casorati (1914)

In this brief essay, I hope to make a simple argument: that the physical demonstrations we make while praying can serve as a powerful catalyst for religious devotion, especially in 2026. Specifically,...

7 days ago
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Envying Hannah

I don’t know about you, but some of my biggest regrets in life involve acting outside of integrity by betraying my own understanding of right and wrong. This includes discounting my own inspiration from the Spirit of God, often in deference...

8 days ago
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Patterns, Pieces, and Possibilities

When I approached forty, I felt a quiet restlessness.

When I approached forty, I felt a quiet restlessness.

8 days ago
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The Beauty and Risks of Costly Love

Thomas Matthews Rooke, Naomi and Ruth (1876–1877). Tate Britain.

The book of Ruth, no more than a short story in length and scope, packs its few pages with a volume’s worth of moral reflection on love, self-sacrifice, and redemption. The n...

11 days ago
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  • Faith Matters

    Exploring an expansive view of the Restored Gospel.

  • Zachary Davis

    Executive Director of Faith Matters // Editor at Wayfare // Host of Ministry of Ideas.

  • Terryl Givens

    Terryl Givens is Maxwell Senior Research Fellow at BYU. His books include studies in theology, biography and intellectual history. The New York Times has called his scholarship “provocative reading,” and he has been a commentator on PBS, CNN and NPR.

  • Jeanine Bee

    Jeanine Bee is a writer of short fiction and creative non-fiction, and the fiction editor for Wayfare Magazine. Her works have been featured in Inscape, Irreantum, Dialogue, the Mormon Lit Blitz, and Exponent II.

  • Rosalynde Welch

    Research fellow and associate director at the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship.

  • Rachael Givens Johnson

    Assistant professor of humanities, associate editor at Wayfare; mom of three; and happiest with a mug of hot chocolate and cozy conversation.

  • Thomas Griffith

    Thomas B. Griffith was a judge on the U. S. Court of Appeals for the D. C. Circuit from 2004-2020. Currently he is a Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School and a Fellow at the Wheatley Institute at Brigham Young University.

  • Rachel Jardine

    Deputy Editor at Wayfare. Loves mothering, road-tripping, and dancing with chaos. Always in pursuit of more hours in the day, always up for a chat about the secret of life.

  • Deidre Nicole Green

    Assistant Professor of Latter-day Saint/Mormon Studies at GTU. I teach courses on Christian theology & philosophy and publish on constructive feminist theology, Kierkegaard, & Mormon Studies.

  • Charlotte Wilson

    Charlotte is a reader first, writer second, and editor third. She’s a seeker, a questioner, a modern Mormon mystic, and occasional heretic. You’re most likely to find her in liminal spaces.

  • Andy Reed

    Prof of World Religions, believer in interfaith solutions to real problems, lover of the unexpected book that surprises me

  • Mikayla "Mik" Johnson

    Mikayla "Mik" Johnson is the winner of the 2024 Utah Original Writing Competition Short Story Collection. Her work has been published in The Colorado Review, Door is a Jar, Segullah, and others. Find her on instagram @mikjohnsonwrites

  • Melissa Inouye

    I am a historian specializing in modern Chinese history. I also study Christianity in China, women and religion, and the history of global Christianity.

  • Scott Esplin
  • Drew Hansen

    Drew Hansen is a writer based in Portland, Oregon. His work braids personal narrative, history, and reporting to explore place, memory, faith, and the creative life.

  • Joshua Topham

    Joshua M. Topham is a Barry Scholar at the University of Oxford, where he researches political theology and institutions. He will begin study at Yale Law School this fall.

  • Jarrod Grover

    Senior Rabbi of Beth Tikvah Synagogue, Toronto, Canada.

  • Peter Dziedzic

    Peter Dziedzic | PhD student of Religion and Literature | Seeking and sharing luminous horizons, inner and outer.

  • Julia Chopelas
  • J. B. Haws
  • Melissa de Leon Mason

    Modern quilt designer, Latina maker, therapist, mom of four, lover of rainy days, living in Logan, UT.

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