Parabola's Spring 2004 issue: Marriage Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove: O no! It is an ever fixed mark. --Shakespeare Cover: "The Bride and Groom of the Eiffel Tower" By Marc Chagall, 1938-1939 Musv©e national d'Art Moderne, Paris. Photograph by Phillipe Migeat. Copryight ¬© CNAC/MNAM/Reunion des Musv©es Nationaux/Art Resource, New York/ADAGP, Paris. In this issue:

• "The Tale of Baucis and Philemon" by Jane L. Mickelson
  - A look at Ovid's story
• "The Dame and the Knight" by Michael van Baker
  - Women, men, and the need for sovereignty
• "Standing Under the Mountain" by Eliezer Shore
  - To enter a binding covenant
• "Heaven and Earth" by Mircea Eliade
  - The cosmogonic marriage
• "The Hindu Brahmin Wedding" by Uma Girish
  - Explored in all its many stages and variants
• "Sappho and the Songs of Marriage" by David and Sharon Hoffman
  - The poet's praise of matrimonial union
• "An Epithalamion" by John Donne
• "The Marriage Vow" by Helen M. Luke
  - Commitment to what end?
• "A Man and a Woman Arguing" by Jelaluddin Rumi
• "You Are Together" by Linda G. Johnston
  - On being joined in a traditional Anishinabe ceremony
• ARCS: For Love of Self in the Other
• "Of the 'Chemical Marriage'" by Titus Burckhardt
  - The alchemical way of transformation
• "Mystical Union" by Evelyn Underhill - Symbolisms of religion and love"Marrying Spirits in the Flesh" by Mary Kay Landon
  - The relationship between lwa and serviteur in Vodou
• "Wedding Night with the God" by Trebbe Johnson
  - Mortal longing for divine union

Epicycles - Traditional stories from around the world

• "The First Wedding" / Jewish - retold by Howard Schwartz
• "The Marriage of Siddhartha Gautama Buddha" / Buddhist - retold by Brandon Hawk
• "The Stolen Wife" / Maori - retold by Jane Yolen