• Home
  • About
    • Editorial Board
  • Contributors
    • Editorial Guidelines
    • Guest Editor Guidelines
    • Submissions
  • Contact
Topology Magazine - Artful dispatches from the places where we find ourselves Artful dispatches from the places where we find ourselves
  • Essay
    • The violence of frenzy
      The violence of frenzy
    • The sound of roots
      The sound of roots
    • Summer’s lease
      Summer’s lease
    • Editorial
    • Throwback
  • Poetry
  • Image
    • Deep Roots
      Deep Roots
    • Hope and Expectation
      Hope and Expectation
    • No Trespassing
      No Trespassing
  • Quote
  • Themes
    • Upcoming
    • Volume 1
      • 0.1 Intro
      • 1.1 Margins
      • 1.2 Living with the Seasons
      • 1.3 Thriftiness
      • 1.4 Noise and Silence
      • 1.5 Bodies
      • 1.6 Transportation
      • 1.7 Waterways
      • 1.8 My Economy
      • 1.9 Sharing Food
      • 1.10 Coming and Going
    • 2.1 Labor
    • 2.2 Bridges
    • 2.3 Shops & Stores
    • 2.4 The Darkest Night
    • 2.5 Sabbath
    • 2.6 Local Government
    • 2.7 Solastalgia
    • 2.8 Borders & Boundaries
    • 2.9 Play

Amelia Rhodes

Amelia Rhodes is the author of Pray A to Z: A Practical Guide to Pray for Your Community and Isn't It Time for a Coffee Break: Doing Life Together in an All-About-Me Kind of World. Amelia's writing has also been featured in four Chicken Soup for the Soul titles, in the international devotional Upper Room, and in an upcoming devotional book from Guideposts. Amelia has a growing speaking ministry and speaks regularly to women's groups on topics of spiritual growth, friendship, and community, offering practical tools for living our faith in the everyday. She lives in Lowell, Michigan, with her husband and two children where she loves to hang out with friends over coffee.

Planting patience
ThrowbackJuly 6, 2017

Planting patience

By Amelia Rhodes

Editor’s note: Each Thursday, we feature a throwback piece from Topology’s predecessor, catapult magazine. In this essay from 2012, Amelia Rhodes plants seeds with her…

Read More

About Topology

Topology Magazine

Topology Magazine is a place for active contemplation through prose, poetry, and art: the produce of thoughtful labor in the places where we find ourselves. Each person is inextricably tied to their physical location, and Topology cultivates that connection by publishing work which explicitly or implicitly recognizes the influence of place. Read more …

Contributors

  • Kirstin Vander Giessen-Reitsma
  • Deborah Haak
  • Henry Bakker
  • Elisabeth Wenger
  • Rob Vander Giessen-Reitsma
  • S. Alexandra Harper
  • mt
  • the daily asterisk
  • Marjorie Maddox
  • Alex Joyner
  • Katie Hoogendam
  • Karissa Knox Sorrell
  • Alex Quick
  • William Overbeeke
  • Amy Carpenter-Leugs
  • Laura Menze
  • Naomi Wenger
  • Bethany Beachum
  • Tom Springer
  • Brett Beasley
  • Name Withheld
  • Deborah Lewis
  • Carol Stephen
  • Aline Lindemann
  • Kathryn T. Jones
  • Raechelle Kennedy
  • Bill Boerman-Cornell
  • Scott Peterson
  • Uche Ogbuji
  • Brother Abraham Newsom
  • Robert Andy Coombs
  • Lisa Witz
  • Elisabeth McClanahan
  • Neil E. Das
  • Gail Heffner
  • Alek Frost
  • Luke Johnston
  • Ian Randall Wilson
  • John Pierce
  • Sylvia Keesmaat
  • Chris Bullard
  • Katie Karnehm-Esh
  • Denise Frame Harlan
  • A. Non
  • Jeff Gundy
  • Randy Smit
  • J.C. Elkin
  • Monica Sharman
  • Christine Darragh
  • Joy Riggs
  • David Stewart
  • Amy Nemecek
  • John Davis Jr.
  • Ingrid Lochamire
  • Nora Kirkham
  • Peter Freedman-Doan
  • Rick Kempa
  • Kendra Stanton Lee
  • Amanda Hiland
  • Julie Keefer
  • Sara Sterley
  • Lynne S. Viti
  • Larry Kamphausen
  • Christopher Smit
  • Devon Balwit
  • Travis Poling
  • Jennifer Crow
  • Jacob Miller
  • Jeff Santosuosso
  • Valerie Bacharach
  • Thomas Swann
  • Robert Peace Jordan
  • Gail Walters
  • Daniel Silliman
  • D.S. Leiter
  • Matt Prater
  • Lee Hull Moses
  • Paul Douglas McNeill II
  • Christie Walkuski
  • Deborah Bowen
  • Amy Oestreicher
  • Lynn White
  • Laura Fabrycky
  • Carolyn Adams
  • Amelia Rhodes
  • Jill McDonough
  • Lindsy Wallace
  • Donald Illich
  • Rachel Marie Stone
  • Kathy Fenton-Miller
  • Heather Hutchison
  • Ched Myers
  • Nate Maxson
  • Lorraine Caputo
  • Larry-Michael Hackenberg
  • Jeff Burt
  • Jacque Rowe Fields
  • Daniel Roy Connelly
  • Sam Gesch
  • Christopher Smith
  • Catherine Woodiwiss
  • Lauren Wayne
  • Eileen R. Kinch
  • Hannah Thyberg
  • Jennifer Hernandez
  • Andy Rogers
  • Shawndra Miller
  • Katie Reich
  • Michael Penny
  • June Mears Driedger
  • Kenneth Arthur
  • Jennifer Martelli
  • Claire Ibarra
  • Alexa Shearer
  • Danielle Germaine
  • Nathan Van Hoff
  • Nicole Carlin
  • Nina Bannett
  • Lea Page
  • Mary Ann Honaker
  • Marylu Dykstra
  • Heidi Fettig Parton
  • Mike Wilson
  • Gwen DiPietro
  • Joel Schueler
  • Ruth Asher
  • Wm. Anthony Connolly
  • Matthew Deames
  • Elisavietta Ritchie
  • Joy-Elizabeth Lawrence
  • Erin O'Connor-Garcia
  • Sophie Blanc
  • Cat Dixon
  • Geneva Langeland
  • Stefanie Möser Zitö
  • Clinton Inman
  • Nate Al Attas-Bradford
  • Kierstan Barbre
  • Tamra Carraher
  • Ann Klotz
  • Joyce H. Munro
  • Chris Fuller
  • Gary Guthrie
  • Amy Hetletvedt
  • Samuel J. Fox
  • Brandon Marlon
  • Kurt Armstrong
  • Griffin Paul Jackson
  • Celine B. Roque
  • John Yohe
  • Denise Vredevoogd
  • Vincent A. Cellucci
  • Jerry Berrigan
  • Nathaniel Harper-Brees
  • Erica Schemper
  • Debra Dieppa
  • Stephanie Nikolopoulos
  • Kate Bowman-Johnston
  • Mark Andrew Heathcote
  • Aaron Nell
  • Katie Rendon Kahn
  • Kendall Vanderslice
  • Ben Brazil
  • Hardeep Sabharwal
  • Mike Finley
  • Kristina England
  • Zach Bartz
  • Karen Fitz La Barge
  • Jim Schmotzer
  • Grant Elgersma
  • Amanda Cleary Eastep
  • Emily Ulmer
  • L. L. Barkat
  • Josh MacIvor-Andersen
  • Jennifer Monroe
  • Katie Houston
  • Jeremy Huggins
  • Matthew Landrum
  • Amie Adams
  • Barbara Ruth
  • Alan Van Wyk
  • Jacqueline Ristola
  • Rebecca Wolff
  • Jeffrey Allen Mays
  • Robert Stout
  • Michael Knowles
  • Rob Testing

Join Topology

We're looking for writers, artists, practitioners, and more to contribute to the magazine. Please get in touch or join our contributor e-mail list to receive our regular pitch calls.

Featured

  • The violence of frenzy
    The violence of frenzy
  • The sound of roots
    The sound of roots
  • Summer's lease
    Summer’s lease
Copyright © 2017-18 *culture is not optional
Back to top
Posting....