Elijah’s rapture by a burning chariot pulled by burning horses is one of Scriptures most captivating images. Besides inspiring a film title, the phrase “chariots of fire” continues to circulate as an invocation of a powerful mystical experience. For Reformation theologians like the German Johannes Piscator (1546–1625), Elijah’s ascent provides an opportunity for typological exegesis, that…

Seraphim —after Dzvinia Orlowsky This is the hour of churchyard haze, the slow light of the sun gathered around the heads of saints. Dusk pauses to gather songbirds in a grey sack. I am a sanctuary, razed by fire. The priests being to descend, one by one, to pick through my debris for sins. I…