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August 2014

August 01, 2014

Eiseley, Darwin, and the Weird Portentous

Loren Eiseley was born in 1907. He died in 1977. For many years and until...

July 2014

July 31, 2014

The Destruction of a Man

This year 233,000 American men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer, while almost the same...

July 30, 2014

Losing the Thread

Guest post by Michael Leary After someone commits suicide you begin to filter through everything...

July 29, 2014

Sitting with Pain in Gaza and Israel

This morning, as I tried to awaken from a fitful night’s sleep, I turned to...

July 28, 2014

Everyone Deserves Clean Grout and Starched Linen

For my junior high school Home Economics teacher, Mrs. Lesca Black, who taught me how...

July 24, 2014

God, Guilt, and Aronofsky’s Noah, Part 2

Yesterday I wrote about the film Noah and the believing soul’s ambivalence to God. Today...

July 23, 2014

God, Guilt, and Aronofsky’s Noah, Part 1

As it has become too expensive for our family of five to go to the...

July 22, 2014

Lavender and Pennies

Whenever you detect the mysterious smell of lavender in a house, it means a friendly...

July 21, 2014

My Own Desert (Tortoise) Father

I didn’t spend enough time with Oscar this summer. For forty years I've believed time...

July 18, 2014

Caught in the Crosshairs: the Children at Our Border

I write this on a Sunday, when people who spent the week shouting at busloads...

July 17, 2014

Ovarian Cancer and a Circumcised Heart

Circumcise therefore the thickness about your hearts. —Deuteronomy 10:16 Her dying and death circumcised...

July 16, 2014

Made Whole Again: 25 Years of Image

To celebrate Image’s twenty-fifth anniversary we are posting a series of essays by people who...

July 15, 2014

Everybody Should Write Poetry

People who read poetry but don’t write it are like those who have just heard...

July 14, 2014

The Gay Science and Nietzsche’s Prayer Rant

There’s a place in Nietzsche’s The Gay Science where he really lets Christians have it....

July 11, 2014

Cheers to the World Cup

I met a friend in the local hipster bar to watch what was to be...

July 10, 2014

Moving to Stillness

Last Thursday morning I got up, made my son’s lunch, made sure that both children...

July 09, 2014

A Christian Writer Drops the F-Bomb: 25 Years of Image

To celebrate Image’s twenty-fifth anniversary we are posting a series of essays by people who...

July 08, 2014

Quitting the Cancer Battle

I am not a hero. After my last post, some readers wanted to know how...

July 07, 2014

Seeing The World As It Is

“My religious commitment: to stay in conversation with Jewish stories.” That’s Nancy Fuchs Kreimer in...

July 03, 2014

Hymn to the Fourth of July

The Fourth of July is coming up, and if there’s any time of the year...

July 02, 2014

Mangled Science, Mangled Truth, Part 2

Continued from yesterday. Mathematicians sometimes employ the imagery of a three-dimensional landscape to represent the...

July 01, 2014

Mangled Science, Mangled Truth, Part 1

It’s one of those intellectual nuggets you tuck away for dinner parties: A recent psychological...

June 2014

June 30, 2014

Moving Inland: Stephen Mason and Jars of Clay

Guest post by Angela Doll Carlson Over the last twenty years of his musical career...

June 27, 2014

Dodging Bullets

They arrived as strangers—freshmen at Seattle Pacific University who’d come to take a course in...

June 26, 2014

These Frigates, These Chariots

Guest post by Kathleen Housley It is a sunny morning in early June. A sabbath...

June 25, 2014

The Benediction of Place

I’ll turn forty in three years. I recognize upon approaching this third score of years...

June 24, 2014

Emily Dickinson Erased

Don’t go to Emily Dickinson’s house in Amherst, Massachusetts. There isn’t anything there. Not her...

June 23, 2014

Snapshots from the Imperial City

1. My children attend a school that sits in rented space in the middle of...

June 20, 2014

Maya Angelou’s Caged Bird and Me

But a plea, that upward to Heaven he flings —Paul Lawrence Dunbar, “Sympathy” I...

June 19, 2014

Medicating the Religious Mind

I’ve been taking an antidepressant for six months now. Psychiatry wins: I’m a more functional...