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May 2014

May 06, 2014

What Now?

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

May 05, 2014

Let’s Hear It for the Dull Habit

"Good Letters" is pleased today to welcome D.G. Myers as a regular contributor. In early...

May 02, 2014

Corporate Insanity Starts with Us

Imagine you paid someone to build a house for your child, and imagine one night...

May 01, 2014

The Passion of Relisha Rudd

The first ominous sign that the Relisha Rudd case was slipping from the local Washington,...

April 2014

April 30, 2014

Slumping Toward the Altar

Congratulations to Jessica Mesman Griffith and Amy Andrews, who won a 2014 Christopher Award for...

April 29, 2014

The Heaven of Animals: A Coin in the Mouth

Guest Post By Jen Hinst-White “I have this mystical-schmystical idea,” one of my writing teachers...

April 28, 2014

Pennies from Heaven

I’ve never really been into crosses. Like fire hydrants or Starbucks, there are so many,...

April 25, 2014

Sex and Power and Christian Education

My wife and I are always behind on television shows because we wait for them...

April 24, 2014

Voices in the Methow Valley

Spring in the Methow Valley of Northeastern Washington comes quietly, a gradual warming, winter grass...

April 23, 2014

Crying Ocean

Guest post by Natalie Vestin In Judith Kitchen’s essay “Direction,” she writes of traveling with...

April 22, 2014

I Sing the Body Eclectic

No doubt Walt Whitman would have sounded his barbaric yawp from the steaming rooftop pool...

April 21, 2014

An Hour Upon the Stage

Among the variety of strange notions that we get into our heads, one of the...

April 17, 2014

Saint Death and Easter

Guest Post By Chris Hoke I got a call from a number I didn't recognize....

April 16, 2014

25 Years of Image, 18 of Glen Workshops

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

April 15, 2014

Oasis: An Observation from The Way of Saint James

I almost passed it by. When the offer came in January, I was too busy...

April 14, 2014

New Plagues This Passover

As I write this, Passover is just a little more than a week away. This...

April 11, 2014

Poetry at the Goodwill

When I was a soccer-obsessed fifteen-year-old, I had no use for poetry. I endured my...

April 10, 2014

Keeping Up with the Writing Joneses

By the time this post runs, I’ll be in Grand Rapids at the Calvin Festival...

April 09, 2014

The Prodigal Bears His Scars

My last communion was during a brief suspension of my former church’s policy of forbidding...

April 08, 2014

The Grace of the Unexpected, Part 2

In the first part of my post yesterday, I lamented our contemporary lack of risk,...

April 07, 2014

The Grace of the Unexpected, Part 1

Listen up, brothers and sisters—what follows here is the only sermon I know how to...

April 04, 2014

The Notecards of Paradise: 25 Years of Image

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

April 03, 2014

Beauty’s Victory

I go on binges. For days, weeks, months—well, usually not months—but days and weeks anyhow,...

April 02, 2014

Against Gratitude

The other day a Facebook friend linked to a blog post on fifteen ways to...

April 01, 2014

My Dinners with Philip Levine

“Poetry makes nothing happen,” W.H. Auden famously claimed—famously and perhaps disingenuously, for if nothing else...

March 2014

March 31, 2014

Henri Nouwen, Reaching Out: 25 Years of Image

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

March 28, 2014

Lectio Divina for a Life

My friend Cindy’s memorial service was at the Quaker Meeting she’d attended for years. The...

March 27, 2014

Creation, Evolution, and the Over-Active Imagination, Part 2

Guest post By Jeremy Begbie In yesterday’s post I had to skip over a lot...

March 26, 2014

Creation, Evolution, and the Over-Active Imagination, Part 1

Guest post By Jeremy Begbie Much is said these days about the importance of the...

March 25, 2014

Letter to Stephen Dunn

Dear Steve, I’ve had to look away for most of three decades now—away from your...