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June 2014

June 18, 2014

The Mercy of Sickness before Death

Just so you understand: I am dying. I am in the end stage of metastatic...

June 17, 2014

Inner Peace Part 2: Mirror and Furnace

Yesterday I traced the spirituality of a Zen Garden stroll, then of meditation based on...

June 16, 2014

Inner Peace Part 1: Zen Gardens

Zen gardens were all the rage when I installed a modified version in my backyard...

June 13, 2014

Can We Bridge the Racial Divide?

Recently, after I’d just watched the documentary about food deserts called A Place at the...

June 12, 2014

Appreciating Andrew Wyeth

I’ve had a few nasty discoveries of late. All too often, I’ve found out that...

June 11, 2014

Where Is the Human Touch?

These days, we’re besieged by merchants marketing in myriad ways: boulevards blighted with billboards, postboxes...

June 10, 2014

Experimenting on the Lambs

News from Alabama is that researchers obscured risks of blindness, brain damage, and death in...

June 09, 2014

Ripping Out My Past

I’m in the attic staring at boxes. One is labeled Journals, 1979-1985. Another is Journals,...

June 06, 2014

A Jew Prays in Venice, Part 2

Continued from yesterday. On the pleasant train ride from Florence to Venice, my wife Laurie...

June 05, 2014

A Jew Prays in Venice, Part 1

In Venice, in the Santa Maria della Salute church, in the presence of Madonna della...

June 04, 2014

My Date with One-Eared Joe

I didn’t get many dates in high school. At the time, I thought I was...

June 03, 2014

This Crazy Pope

“Good Letters” is pleased today to welcome Morgan Meis as a regular contributor. Read Image’s...

June 02, 2014

Can’t a Dad Hug His Boy?

When I sat down to work at my computer yesterday morning, I checked my email...

May 2014

May 30, 2014

Courage in Community: 25 Years of Image

Guest post by Hunter Sharpless To celebrate Image’s twenty-fifth anniversary we are posting a series...

May 29, 2014

At a Loss for Words

I’m told there are words in Romanian (“dor”) and in Portuguese (“saudade”)—those two outposts in...

May 28, 2014

You Tell ’Em, Duke Porn Star

Like everyone else with a lick of moral sense, I was shamed and saddened by...

May 27, 2014

Mystery and (Southern) Manners

It’s a chicken-and-egg kind of question I get all the time, but I don’t think...

May 23, 2014

Scientific Passions

The nerd world felt a slight disturbance in the force a few weeks back, when...

May 22, 2014

Light One Candle

Every week after Mass I light a candle. I love the smell of hot wax...

May 21, 2014

Graciously Effaced: Saintseneca’s Dark Arc

Guest post by Isaac Anderson Last August, Billy Corgan, of Smashing Pumpkins fame, got some...

May 20, 2014

Prado’s Ex-Voto: Dumbfounded By Mystics and Clothing Stores

What might it be like to truly live with God? Not in the way I...

May 19, 2014

Matteo’s Shoes: An Observation from the Way of Saint James

I wrapped the thick terry robe around me, refreshed by the bubble bath I’d taken...

May 16, 2014

Avoiding the Mirror

Guest post by Cathy Warner I have circled around this story several times, trying to...

May 15, 2014

That Woman is Gone: Discovering Postpartum Depression

On some spring mornings, even nine years later, a remnant returns: red-winged blackbirds wake me...

May 14, 2014

Sunday in Sweet Afton

Last Sunday my wife decided to celebrate the end of our semester by taking a...

May 13, 2014

Ruin and Possibility in David Gordon Green’s Joe

How many of our triumphs in a long and confusing life are accountable not to...

May 12, 2014

The Great iAm

My lovely mother, God bless her, is cursed. And having just spent a weekend with...

May 09, 2014

A Day Wide Enough for Wonder

To recap: my cup of Awake is half empty. What's left is cooler now than...

May 08, 2014

Did Dante Convert Me?

Many years ago, my husband took a job in Rochester, New York, four hundred miles...

May 07, 2014

Christians in the Age of Sincerity

Guest Post By Dyana Herron Image has just published its 25th anniversary issue (#80). We’re...