Story Editor Betsy Cornwell shares excerpts and web exclusives from the new issue of Parabola, "Goddess," including Christine Irving's "Inanna: Relevance and Return." Find the full issue and become a subscriber at parabola.org.

Music: Dreaming, Op. 15 No. 3, composed by Amy Beach.

Story Editor Betsy Cornwell shares excerpts from the Winter 1978 issue of Parabola, "Androgyny," including an exploration of female self-sufficiency in the Gnostic Gospels and PL Travers' beautiful rumination on the zodiac in "Letter to a Learned Astrologer."

Music: "Dreaming: Op 15 No 3" composed by Amy Beach.

Story Editor Betsy Cornwell shares excerpts from the current issue of Parabola, "Mercy and Forgiveness," including Alexandra Haven's incisive essay on the political context of museum collections "Who Decides History's Future?" and a retelling of the Skandinavian folktate "The Woman Without a Shadow."

Story Editor Betsy Cornwell shares excerpts from the current issue of Parabola, The Wild, including an essay on environmentalism and society in the Amazon and two myths about wilderness, The Seven Swans and Romulus and Remus

Story Editor Betsy Cornwell shares excerpts from Parabola Magazien's forty-year archive on the theme of remembering.

Story editor Betsy Cornwell shares essays from Parabola's extensive archives on the theme of "Renewal" in this episode of Parabola Magazine's free podcast.

Story Editor Betsy Cornwell shares Jm White's moving essay "The Esoteric Shakespeare" and Scottish and Chinese fairy tales, as well as wise advice from Rainer Maria Rilke, in this episode of Parabola Magazine's free monthly podcast.

Story editor Betsy Cornwell shares excerpts from Parabola's archives on the theme of "vision," including senior editor Tracy Cochran's essay "Visions of Joni," in this episode of Parabola's free monthly podcast.

Story editor Betsy Cornwell shares excerpts from Parabola's new issue, "Hope," in this episode of our magazine's free monthly podcast.

Story Editor Betsy Cornwell shares Josh Boettiger's essay on King David and Leonard Cohen, "The Poet and the Shepherd," and Susan McCaslin's meditation on spiritual journeys, "Guidance," in this episode of Parabola Magazine's free monthly podcast. Subscribe at parabola.org.