Our mission is to compile the best undergraduate fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art, and photography here at Cedarville University. Our focus is to showcase talented voices that explore the human condition in all its complexities and nuances. Our hope is to impact how college students think about and interact with art by publishing pieces which seek to, as C. S. Lewis instructs, “see with other eyes, to imagine with other imaginations, to feel with other hearts, as well as with our own.” In this way, we “demand windows” to investigate the experiences in our communities and understand truth from all our imperfections and beauties. Through critical empathy and creative expression, we seek to show the perfect need for Christ and his saving grace.
Current Issue: Volume 25, 2025
Issue DOI: https://doi.org/10.15385/jcr.2025.25.1
Foreword
Editors' Foreword
Meghan Wells and Haley Kollstedt
Poetry
The Glorious Moon
Grace Thornsbury
Joy, Softly
Sierra Ausfahl
November (or Fall's Gash is Gold-Vermillion)
Savannah Battle
A Christmas Poem
Savannah Battle
The Shipwreck
Alaina G. Lowery
Celestial Waltz
Sophia J. Camillone
i grieve the pink clouds
Meghan Wells
The Moon over Ankara
Hannah Shierman
Fiction
Jake's Journal
Hannah Fultz
arctic spring
Sierra Ausfahl
Grandpa's Tea
Brosnan Butt
Nonfiction
Peppermint Mocha
Haley C. Kollstedt
Reflections from Today
Anna Brubacher
Self-Service Snellen Test
Elise Hunnemeyer
The Snow on 146th Ln NW
Adelyn Olson
When the Planes Stopped Flying
Grace Thornsbury
Essay
Midwestern Goodbye
Rebecca Neely
Art
In Its Time
Lydia G. Belsley
Going Through It
Pizgah M. Wadsworth
Photography
colours of time
Angela Lee
Berlin's Memory
Rebecca Robinson
peace by the river
Angela Lee
Doe, A Deer
Brosnan Butt
Solomon's Shame (Luke 12:27-28)
Brosnan Butt
In My Restless Dreams
Benjamin Konuch
Golden Autumn
Julianna Williams
Tree Ablaze
Brosnan Butt
Magnanimous Lotus
Brosnan Butt
Acknowledgements
Editors
- Haley Kollstedt
- Meghan Wells
- Adelyn Olson
- Alayna Drollinger
- Ashleigh Clark
- Booker Atkins
- Brook Fetter
- Brosnan Butt
- Caroline Stanton
- Elise Hunnemeyer
- Grace Thornsbury
- Rebecca Neely
Faculty Advisor
- Bryana Fern
Designer
- Beth (Yajing) Qin
Sponsor
- The Department of English, Literature, and Modern Languages at Cedarville University
- The Cedarville Review is an annual publication of poetry, prose, and visual art. Our special thanks to our many contributors. This review was laid out in Adobe Illustrator and InDesign using Avenir Next, Rockwell, and Athelas type families.