The second issue of The Margins centers on joy.
Not the shallow kind. Not the forced smile or the religious platitude we tape over our exhaustion.
This is about joy as resistance. Joy as revolt. Joy as the strange, stubborn radiance of the soul that refuses to be flattened by despair.
Inside, this issue moves through the noise of algorithms, outrage, doom, productivity, performance, and mechanized religion. It asks what happens when the Christian life becomes cold, anxious, and efficient, and what it means that Christ keeps interrupting the machine with feasts, songs, laughter, breakfast on the shore, and the ridiculous freedom of the saints.
This is a paper about holy foolishness, contagious gladness, and the kind of joy that does not ignore suffering but refuses to let suffering become the final word.
It is not a call to become cheerful on command. It is an insistence that:
Details:
44 pages
Mixed layout: essays, collage spreads, tinted pages, and visual interruptions
Small batch, limited copies
Written and created by W. Tyler Allen (St. Anthony’s Tongue)
The second issue of The Margins centers on joy.
Not the shallow kind. Not the forced smile or the religious platitude we tape over our exhaustion.
This is about joy as resistance. Joy as revolt. Joy as the strange, stubborn radiance of the soul that refuses to be flattened by despair.
Inside, this issue moves through the noise of algorithms, outrage, doom, productivity, performance, and mechanized religion. It asks what happens when the Christian life becomes cold, anxious, and efficient, and what it means that Christ keeps interrupting the machine with feasts, songs, laughter, breakfast on the shore, and the ridiculous freedom of the saints.
This is a paper about holy foolishness, contagious gladness, and the kind of joy that does not ignore suffering but refuses to let suffering become the final word.
It is not a call to become cheerful on command. It is an insistence that:
Details:
44 pages
Mixed layout: essays, collage spreads, tinted pages, and visual interruptions
Small batch, limited copies
Written and created by W. Tyler Allen (St. Anthony’s Tongue)
