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November 2016

November 11, 2016

Poetry Friday: “Plowboy’s Bible” by Austin Segrest

When I read Austin Segrest’s “Plowboy’s Bible,” I began to realize that the entire poem...

November 04, 2016

Poetry Friday: “Winter Song” by Amy McCann

What do we understand? What do we even mean by “understanding”? A poem can pose...

October 2016

October 28, 2016

Poetry Friday: “Poverty of Spirit” by Fleda Brown

“Blessed are the poor in spirit.” This beatitude has always puzzled me: what, I’ve wondered,...

October 26, 2016

The Debate About Beauty

I’ve been engaged in an ongoing wrangle with Gregory Wolfe about the status of Christian...

October 21, 2016

Poetry Friday: “Hive Boxes” by Megan Snyder-Camp

The sounds in this poem! I love its compactness and humming—its slender shape on the...

October 14, 2016

Poetry Friday: “Nothing More” by Todd Davis

Whenever I first meet a long skinny poem, I ask myself: Why has the poet...

October 07, 2016

Poetry Friday: “Intercession: For My Daughter” by Brett Foster

We pass into this world at birth. We pass out of it at death. And...

October 05, 2016

The Art of Steve Prince

This post originally appeared as web-exclusive content in Image issue 78. Steve Prince, a New...

September 2016

September 30, 2016

Poetry Friday: “After” by Marjorie Stelmach

Grief is a state of being that almost defies articulation. When you’re in it, it...

September 23, 2016

Poetry Friday: “Visitation Rights” by Jeffrey Harrison

I sometimes talk to friends who have died. Especially to friends who acted as spiritual...

September 16, 2016

Poetry Friday: “Homily”

Last Sunday I was trying to decide whether to go church or take a walk...

September 09, 2016

Poetry Friday: “The News”

What do I do with the daily news of disasters? Do I mumble a quick...

August 2016

August 26, 2016

Poetry Friday: “The Embrace”

Poetry can recall us to the sensuousness of ordinary experience. Elizabeth Smither does this in...

August 19, 2016

Poetry Friday: “Recovery”

What I like about this poem is how it slides almost unnoticeably from a simple,...

August 12, 2016

Poetry Friday: “More Strange”

This poem coaxes me to inhabit a story I’ve heard many times, and makes it...

August 05, 2016

Poetry Friday: “Onesimus”

In this month of painful national and international news, Tania Runyan’s poem “Onesimus” offers a...

July 2016

July 29, 2016

Poetry Friday: Four Sonnets

Sonnets meditating on illuminated manuscripts of the Middle Ages may sound a bit sanctimonious, even...

July 21, 2016

Poetry Friday: “Sometimes I Am Permitted”

On my first reading of this poem, I felt disoriented by all the non sequiturs,...

October 2015

October 07, 2015

Life-Saving Moments of Art

In August, the musical duo Alright Alright, composed of husband and wife Seth and China...

September 2015

September 25, 2015

The Harboring Silence, Part 2

Continued from yesterday. The following editorial statement from issue 86 of Image is adapted from...

September 24, 2015

The Harboring Silence, Part 1

The following editorial statement from issue 86 of Image is adapted from a commencement address...

July 2015

July 16, 2015

A Conversation with Artist Natalie Settles, Part 2

By Natalie Settles Continued from yesterday. Image: Natalie, a lot of your recent artwork is...

July 15, 2015

A Conversation with Artist Natalie Settles, Part 1

By Natalie Settles This post was made possible through the support of a grant from...

June 2015

June 09, 2015

The Thing Itself: Art and Poverty, Part 2

Continued from yesterday. How should we treat the poor? Among those who work on...

June 08, 2015

The Thing Itself: Art and Poverty, Part 1

The following is adapted from a presentation given at the Dominican School of Philosophy and...

March 2015

March 12, 2015

Signs, Parables, and The Lord of the Rings

I’m reading The Lord of the Rings trilogy for the first time. I inwardly cringed...

February 2015

February 20, 2015

Back to the Drawing Board

To say I can't draw myself out of a cardboard box is to assume I...

February 17, 2015

The Inner Life of Everyday Objects

On a morning when I was doing laundry, I was also reading Edward Dougherty's new...

February 06, 2015

My God Is Better Than Yours

What a miracle! They had been freed, the Israelites, from Egypt, but moments after they...

January 2015

January 30, 2015

The House Where Beauty Lives

"Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe...