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The Fairfield Review, An On-line Literary Magazine for the Global Community.


"As we come to experience the erotic as sacred, we begin to know ourselves as holy and to imagine ourselves sharing in the creation of one another and of our common well-being....

"We begin to realize that God moves among us, transcending our particularities. She is born and embodied in our midst. She is ground and figure, power and person, this creative Spirit, root of our commonlife and of our most intensely personal longings...."


--Carter Heyward, Touching Our Strength, 1989.

Carter is an Episcopal priest, a theologian, a lesbian, and a faculty member at the Episcopal Divinity School in Massachusetts.