We’re playing with your mind in this issue. Rob Moll’s article discusses how a healthy brain is essential to spiritual growth (and how spiritual disciplines make the brain healthier). Dylan Demarsico tests the logical limits of future and present, time and eternity. And we’ve included “Hurrahing in Harvest” by Gerard Manley Hopkins, a poem perfect for this time of year.
This is our foray into poetry. We recognized early on that if we want to evoke wonder and awe, poetry is especially suited to that end. We’ll do our best to choose poems, new and old, that convey the mystery of creation without simply mystifying us. Those that mystify but are still wonder-full, we’ll help navigate—as we do in the final piece in this issue, where Brett Beasley offers a meditation on Hopkins’s poem.
—Mark Galli, editor
