By Lara Niedermeyer
I’ve been fascinated by Camilla Stark’s art since I first came upon it several years ago. While she served as one of the guest judges for Segullah’s art contest in early 2025, I got to know her a little better, and decided she would be perfect as one of our featured artists—a bit of an …
By Alayna Beck
I keep a pinecone on my desk. Its appearance is average in every way—brown, sharp, rotund. It’s scented like a Christmas Costco candle, pungent like a curled cinnamon stick up your nose. I stole it from the flower arrangement on my grandmother’s casket. How did they know? How did the funeral directors know my grandmother …
By Anya Horman
For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the Lord that hath mercy on thee. –Isaiah 54:10 God could uproot you: sky island mountains,But peace and mercy He will not discard.This certainty flows from your …
By Lara Niedermeyer
First Place The first-place art winner of the 2025 Segullah Contest is Lavinia Hale of Greencastle, Indiana. Her painting entitled “Morning Mist at Big Creek” impressed our judges with its composition, dimensionality, and gentle imagery—and especially the rendering of the reflection of the sky on the water. It was a place we could envision visiting …
By Tabitha Moody
I used to live in the plains. My house had a second story, with a window in my room that could open to the roof of the first story. I liked to climb out the window and sit on the roof every once in a while to stargaze or stare at the endless blue sky. …
By Sherilyn Stevenson
Congratulations on making it through January! For your literary treat, the Prose board presents two pieces. The first is a short story with technology themes fresh and relevant and spiritual themes of eternity. The second is a personal commentary on new grief and the revisiting of faith as a response. Both will have you thinking …
By Linda Hoffman Kimball
Paige Crosland Anderson’s magnificent triptych artwork “Again, Glorified” was recently purchased by Brigham Young University Museum of Art and is on loan at the Church’s Museum of Art in Salt Lake City, Utah. It is a glorious work to see and an even richer experience to perceive with an understanding of Paige’s aesthetic worldview. She …
By Marilyn Bushman-Carlton
-my oldest son reacts to feminism He’s just a boy, my oldest son,following two sisters. A tattered warrior,I’m focused on making sure the girls have chances I didn’t.My eyes are on the lookout, my vision wide,my pique often pointed and raw. Meanwhile, my confused boydraws rudimentary mapsof the neighborhood, his world for now, and is …
By Sarah Colby
Forgive me—its thin pageswere ravaged by mold and dampfrom the poorly packed moving boxwhere it splayed like a fish freshly filleted.It seemed a sacrilege to cloister sacred wordswith banana peels and heels of stale bread. No point to give it away, the cracked spineleaking pages from Leviticus, margin notesbled blue into the metaphors of Isaiah.Reluctantly …
By Micah Cozzens
Forget crosses, bleached bibles, many-eyed angels on Christmas trees—this is my most religious accessory:the feeling of a congregation watching meas I unravel, spilling all my griefsfor everyone to see, voluptuous and streamingfrom the spiritual abscess clinging, dark, to some light-deprived organ—my heart, stomach, spleen, sticky with impious dreams—my indecorum excused by the setting,the license afforded …