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January 2016

January 26, 2016

What Shall I Know at the End of My Days?

When I come to the end of my days, what shall I say I know...

January 25, 2016

Listening to Simone

By Christiana N. Peterson The woman stands in the entryway of our common building just...

January 22, 2016

The Glory of the World

By Alissa Wilkinson The Glory of the World—now running at the Brooklyn Academy of Music—is...

January 21, 2016

Wilberforce: An Interview with H.S. Cross, Part 2

By Gregory Wolfe and H. S. Cross Continued from yesterday. Read Part 1 here. GW: Religion and...

January 20, 2016

Wilberforce: An Interview with H.S. Cross, Part 1

By Gregory Wolfe and H. S. Cross In September 2015, Farrar, Straus and Giroux published Wilberforce,...

January 19, 2016

Eden’s Border: Where Objects Have Stories

We’ll have to go back to the gun shop today. There’s no way around it....

January 18, 2016

Poetry as a Weapon of Jihad

“Strap on a suicide vest? Join a global mission whose leaders preach hatred and acts...

January 15, 2016

Honey, I Want a Tattoo

By Brad Fruhauff If Katie had had a tattoo when we met, I probably would...

January 14, 2016

Learning Detachment in the Attic

By Elizabeth Duffy When my cousin became a Dominican sister, she gave away all of...

January 13, 2016

Winners: Arts & Faith Ecumenical Jury Awards for 2015, Part 2

By Kenneth R. Morefield. Continued from yesterday. Read Part 1 here. Coninuing yesterday’s list of...

January 12, 2016

Winners: Arts & Faith Ecumenical Jury Film Awards for 2015, Part 1

By Kenneth R. Morefield The 2015 Arts & Faith Ecumenical Jury Film Awards had a decidedly...

January 11, 2016

Sign-Seeking in the Dark

January is for sleeplessness. Maybe its cause is the temperature inversion that presses pollution down...

January 08, 2016

George Scialabba and the Problem of Critical Distance

George Scialabba retired from his job this October. He had worked at Harvard University for...

January 07, 2016

My Luxury, My Privilege

Though the Dalai Lama has yet to use a computer, the 1990s “Think Different” ad...

January 06, 2016

Autistic Lives Matter

When I first met Daniel Bowman Jr. at the Festival of Faith and Writing, we...

January 05, 2016

A Metaphorical God, Part 2

Continued from yesterday. In some ways, “mystery” is perhaps the boldest term we chose as...

January 04, 2016

A Metaphorical God, Part 1

The following is adapted from the preface to The Operation of Grace: Further Essays on...

December 2015

December 31, 2015

To Illuminate a Small Field: 15 Songs for 2015

By Joel Heng Hartse At the end of each year, I compile a list of...

December 30, 2015

Scoliosis and the Statue of St. Francis

During a windstorm, our wooden statue of St. Francis is knocked over. I lean him...

December 29, 2015

God is Sacrificial Love

If God is love, as we’re told, then what kind of love is he? In...

December 28, 2015

Precious Things Come from Staying

Joan Didion’s family, she says, are a tribe of leavers. In her 2004 book Where...

December 25, 2015

Snow on Snow

Snow had fallen, snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak mid-winter Long ago....

December 23, 2015

Repression, Oppression, Suppression: A Life of Domestic Routine

Somewhere in the middle of Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles, the eponymous...

December 22, 2015

Prayer: When You Can’t Find the Words, Make Them Up

I spent much of this past summer watching my friend’s three-year-old girl, Mia, as my...

December 21, 2015

Come, Lord Jesus

I've always loved Advent's "O" Antiphons. These are the prayers traditionally voiced during the final...

December 17, 2015

For the Love of Hank Stuever, Part 2

Continued from yesterday. Hank Stuever’s 2005 collection of essays Off Ramp: Adventures and Heartache in...

December 16, 2015

For the Love of Hank Stuever, Part 1

It’s been a rotten day. The Fed Ex package didn’t arrive; a typo slipped through...

December 15, 2015

How to Win the War on Christmas

After thirteen years of parenting, my husband and I still know virtually nothing about raising...

December 14, 2015

The Greater Evil: Proscription or Compulsion?

There’s a new law in China, and it’s aimed at weakening a faith. As the...

December 11, 2015

Poetry Friday: “Annunciation” by Katharine Coles

Each Friday at Good Letters we feature a poem from the pages of Image, selected and...