New Issue of SuperFlumina!
The new issue of SuperFlumina: A Journal of Theological Commentary and Crankyness from the Community of Mary, Mother of the Redeemer is published and available on our website (at cmmredeemer.org at the Buy Stuff From SuperFlumina tab). This new issue of SuperFlumina is the first issue of a second volume—a soft reboot, one might say—which has a number of the features found in the earlier version (the Abbot’s Rant, a Monastery Meditation, poetry, and calendar notes), but has added a substantial featured interview—this issue with Brother James Dowd, OSB, founder of Incarnation Monastery and the Benedictine Service Corps, as well as a refreshed look and feel. The issue is all about Advent and Christmas (with a little bit of Epiphany for good measure), in a word, Incarnation, and it features original cover-art by the Abbot. We can’t wait you to read it and let us know what you think.
While on the subject of SuperFlumina, we would like to point out that we are no longer publishing through the print on demand store that we had been. We’ve taken the plunge and had a batch printed with a local printer who does beautiful work and we’re selling directly through the store on our website. Besides really needing to sell some copies to at least break even, it means that we are selling directly through our website. The great thing about that is that it means faster delivery for you and for us it means that we are able to see who’s buying the journal directly and can thank you personally when you buy a copy (and maybe slip in a bookmark or other freebie when we send it). It also means that we can offer subscriptions for the first time, so if you’ve always wanted to subscribe to SuperFlumina, now’s your chance! Once the initial print run is paid for, any money we make on the journal goes directly to Abbey ministries, which include praying the Office and saying Mass in the midst of a small city with real potential, but also struggling with a lack of jobs that pay a living wage, drug and alcohol addiction—and all the rest that goes with cities that have lost their industrial eco-nomies—direct work with Michigan City’s homeless population, prison and half-way house ministry, recovery ministry, Christian formation, writing and publishing, and in the near future making and selling soap, starting an urban garden/farm, offering retreats, and restarting our YouTube page and other media ministry.
