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October 2015

October 27, 2015

Trauma’s Not a Sin

Recently I ran across the following sentences in a status update and, in short, wanted...

October 26, 2015

A Good Fight: Deux Jours, Une Nuit (Two Days, One Night)

If a pair of writer/directors exists that can rival Joel and Ethan Coen for a...

October 23, 2015

Hamster Hospice: Caring for God’s Tiny Creatures

For my son, Alex In the final months before our hamster died, I would lie...

October 22, 2015

Blessed Are the Tentmakers

For my daughter, Evangeline Sofia, who celebrated her first birthday on the second day of...

October 21, 2015

The Rothko Chapel: The Dark Before the Dawn

By Rebecca A. Spears The few years I lived in Houston’s Menil neighborhood, right behind...

October 20, 2015

The Beast Without

“Isaac’s being a jerk,” my seven year-old, Isaiah, says about his older brother. They have been...

October 19, 2015

Here at Last is Love: The Poems of Dunstan Thompson

I get tingly with anticipation when I'm about to meet a new poet. I don't...

October 16, 2015

The Way of Saint James

My Uncle Jimmy died in September at the age of ninety. Born in Sicily, he...

October 15, 2015

The Art of the Realist Crime Novel: From Dashiell Hammett to Henning Mankell

The Swedish crime writer Henning Mankell died October 5, 2015. He was sixty-seven years old....

October 14, 2015

Driving the Dark Roads

The other day I got an email from a high-school boyfriend, which drove me headlong...

October 13, 2015

Lucia Berlin: A Master of Catholic Fiction, Part 2

By Jenny Shank Continued from yesterday. Catholic imagery appears throughout Lucia Berlin’s A Manual for...

October 12, 2015

Lucia Berlin: A Master of Catholic Fiction, Part 1

By Jenny Shank In September, Lucia Berlin’s posthumous collection of selected short stories A Manual for...

October 09, 2015

Our Lady’s Football Team

Every Saturday morning in fall I wake up and feel a tinge of disappointment that...

October 08, 2015

Brush With a Famous Writer

By Ann Conway I was walking down a concourse in the Philly airport when I...

October 07, 2015

Life-Saving Moments of Art

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

October 06, 2015

Tale of the Lucky and the Star-Crossed

They say that luck is where hard work meets opportunity. But often the ones who...

October 05, 2015

Dr. Seuss and Dietrich Bonhoeffer

By Kathleen L. Housley I am reading a biography of the theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who...

October 02, 2015

Wonder Woman, Flying, Part 2: Beauty and Sacrament

Continued from yesterday. In this scene from Batman’s first meeting with Wonder Woman in Trinity,...

October 01, 2015

Wonder Woman, Flying, Part 1: Transcendent Hope

It’s one of my favorite images of Diana of Themyscira, a.k.a. Wonder Woman: her proud,...

September 2015

September 30, 2015

Beauty Will Save the Seventh Grade

By Callie R. Feyen The school administrator wants to know when my students will experience...

September 29, 2015

Save the Economy: Read the Classics

I was reading Pope Francis's encyclical Laudato Si when I began an article called "What...

September 28, 2015

My Days of Awe, 5776

Impatience. Anger. Wastefulness. Restlessness. Desire. Haughtiness. Greed. Judgement. Pride. § I’ve been paying...

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...

September 23, 2015

The Holy Wafer on the Floor

Sometimes I take the Host in the mouth, other times I take it in the...

September 22, 2015

Canticle of Creation

By Brian Volck This post was made possible through the support of a grant from...

September 21, 2015

Let Me Die Like This

When I die, Lord, let me go in a plane crash, spiraling down, earthward, earthward,...

September 18, 2015

Becoming Food

At five a.m. this morning, my husband woke me while taking money from my wallet...

September 17, 2015

I Found Him at Subway

By John Bryant I found him at Subway, an old man in a brown jacket,...

September 16, 2015

Not Your Mother’s Book Tour

In my world, a typical book signing involves sitting behind a small publisher’s table at...