About This Journal
The Cedarville Review was established in 1996. It is an in-house literary journal that publishes undergraduate work in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art, and photography.
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.
"What then is the good of—what is even the defense for— occupying our hearts with stories of what never happened and entering vicariously into feelings which we should try to avoid having in our own person? Or of fixing our inner eye earnestly on things that can never exist—on Dante’s earthly paradise, Thetis rising from the sea to comfort Achilles, Chaucer’s or Spenser’s Lady Nature, or the Mariner’s skeleton ship? The nearest I have yet got to an answer is that we seek an enlargement of our being. We want to be more than ourselves." ~C. S. Lewis, An Experiment in Criticism