Rapture of the Deep

Doug Thorpe is the author of A New Earth, a study of the Pearl, George Herbert’s Temple and William Blake’s Jerusalem, and is the editor of the anthology Work and the Life of the Spirit. His essays have appeared in Parabola, Terra Nova, Image, Mars Hill Review, The Christian Century and other journals. He teaches literature and writing at Seattle Pacific University, provides poetry for Earth Ministry’s Earth Letter, which he used to edit, and provides spiritual direction for students and others in the Seattle area. He is married with one child, who has momentarily forsaken the Northwest mountains for the east coast.