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January 2017

January 26, 2017

To Run and Not Grow Weary, Part 2

By Jeffrey Overstreet. Maybe it was instinct that sent me back to relive the 1924...

January 25, 2017

To Run and Not Grow Weary, Part 1

By Jeffrey Overstreet. So, why Chariots of Fire? Why is that what I chose for...

January 24, 2017

Kenneth Lonergan’s Manchester by the Sea

It’s impossible to speak of Kenneth Lonergan’s film Manchester by the Sea without alluding to...

January 23, 2017

The World at Midday

I spent Christmas Eve with my mom last month for the first time in years....

January 19, 2017

Now is the Time to Read The Man in the High Castle

Imagine an alternate history in which a regime arose in the United States that believed...

January 17, 2017

Black Lives, Black Art

I happened to be re-reading Uncle Tom’s Cabin when the current issue of Image (#90)...

January 16, 2017

Martin, Everett, and Me

I am writing this essay on the fortieth anniversary of my father’s death, so my...

January 12, 2017

Making Contact: A Christian-Atheist Friendship, Part 2

An introduction: Decades ago, in the faraway land of Orange County, California, two young women...

January 11, 2017

Making Contact: A Christian-Atheist Friendship, Part 1

An introduction from Tania Runyan: Decades ago, in the faraway land of Orange County, California,...

January 10, 2017

Meeting Islam in Interfaith Friendships

In 1993 my husband George Dardess began visiting our local Islamic Center: first to learn...

January 09, 2017

Hea i ka Haku

By Marlene Muller On day two we fired the harpist. “The music is really very...

January 06, 2017

Listening to Silence

I arrived at the advanced screening for Martin Scorsese’s new film, Silence, in the worst...

January 05, 2017

There Is No Free Breakfast

When I joined the gym, I was given two free personal training sessions to help...

January 04, 2017

A Song of Songs for These American Days

With thanks and apologies to the Beatles, Leonard Cohen, Emily Dickinson, Neil Young, Wallace Stevens,...

January 03, 2017

Transcendence: A Tribute to William Christenberry (1936-2016)

“The art of losing isn’t hard to master,” Elizabeth Bishop said, with irony. Still, it’s...

January 02, 2017

Poem for the New Year: “In the Candleroom at Saint Bartholomew’s on New Year’s Eve” By Heather Sellers

This poem moves me and impresses me with its sense of almost-but-not-quite arriving at connection....

December 2016

December 29, 2016

Quaecumque Vera: 16 Songs for 2016

By Joel Heng Hartse You do not have to feel guilty about loving music. Please...

December 28, 2016

Thirty Minutes Without My Phone

The fact that a half-hour meal alone in an IHOP occasions its own blog post...

December 26, 2016

A Love Supreme: The Surprising Art of Sedrick Huckaby

This essay is a web exclusive accompanying Image journal’s current issue, #90. By Bruce Herman...

December 22, 2016

Gird Yourselves, Yet Be Shattered

Of Lanecia A. Rouse Tinsley’s small encaustic Advent paintings, my favorite is Meditation on the...

December 21, 2016

On the Front Lines

By Paul Anderson Seven months ago, I was teaching writing to high school seniors at...

December 20, 2016

Kathleen Wakefield’s Invisible Stenographer

You’ve got to meet this character. She’s a stenographer by trade: From the outset she...

December 19, 2016

I Miss Gwen Ifill

For Kate Keplinger It is the blight man was born for It is Margaret that...

December 15, 2016

A Conversation with Scott Derrickson, Part 2

Continued from yesterday. Scott Derrickson is a director whose films include The Exorcism of Emily Rose,...

December 14, 2016

A Conversation with Scott Derrickson, Part 1

Interviewed by Nick Olson Scott Derrickson is a director whose films include The Exorcism of Emily Rose,...

December 13, 2016

Keeping Vigil

By Suzanne M. Wolfe These are dark times. Here in the northern hemisphere the sun...

December 12, 2016

Stopping the Press

By Mary Kenagy Mitchell This is the time of year when we work on Image’s...

December 07, 2016

The Patron Saint of Losers, Part 2

This post, which appears as the Editorial Statement in Image issue 90, is continued from...

December 06, 2016

The Patron Saint of Losers, Part 1

This post appears as the Editorial Statement in Image issue 90. One of the stranger conversations...

December 05, 2016

The Nightingale Floors

In Kyoto, Japan, seventeenth-century Nijo Castle contains an architectural feature meant to protect the ruling...