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March 2014

March 24, 2014

When the Matches Go Out

When Marie-Henri Beyle visited Florence, that city named for its place among waters, he thought...

March 21, 2014

A Misguided Manual for Civilization

When I was a schoolboy, I used to plan for the world’s end. What would...

March 20, 2014

Scott Cairns and his Idiot Psalms

Guest Post By Angela Doll Carlson W.H. Auden has said, “A poet is, before anything...

March 19, 2014

Stumbling into the Waterfall: 25 Years of Image

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

March 18, 2014

Memory: Jubilee and Knell

A friend mentioned a line from Hannah and Her Sisters the other day: “But in...

March 17, 2014

The Shroud of Turin

If you asked me about the Shroud of Turin, I could speak for hours. Before...

March 14, 2014

In the Kingdom of the Ditch

I used to find “nature poetry” boring. Descriptions of wind through the trees, hilltop vistas,...

March 13, 2014

The Creationist Crisis

Recently my brother had a DNA test done to see what our nationality/ethnicity breakdown is....

March 12, 2014

The United Cinematic States of America

Guest post by Gareth Higgins “You have to be a stranger to the landscape to...

March 11, 2014

Tuesday Morning at the Old Asylum, Part 2

Continued from yesterday. For most of the fall after we moved to Northern Michigan, I...

March 10, 2014

Tuesday Morning at the Old Asylum, Part 1

It’s probably not okay to call it the insane asylum. It’s officially the Village at...

March 07, 2014

Her and Him: Digital Love and Divine Analogues

Sunday at the Oscars, Spike Jonze deservedly won Best Original Screenplay for Her, his dystopian...

March 06, 2014

The Feast Days of Snowfall

Dedicated to Amy Chevalier Efantis Aside from any private celebrations hosted by the Tulane alumni...

March 05, 2014

Risen Words

A book was sleeping inside me. It was somewhere deep and warm, somewhere just beneath...

March 04, 2014

Hearing Voices

Let the words find you, you who have been hiding from them for so long....

March 03, 2014

God For Us An Interview with Beth Bevis

Image, the sponsor of this blog, played a central role in the publication of God...

February 2014

February 28, 2014

Blaze: David Wilcox Opens the Heart, Part 2

This interview with singer-writer David Wilcox, whose new album blaze released this week, is continued...

February 27, 2014

Blaze: David Wilcox Opens the Heart, Part 1

David Wilcox describes himself as a “father, a husband, a citizen and a songwriter…a traveler—an...

February 26, 2014

The Arts and Faith Top 25 Divine Comedies

Guest post by Steven D. Greydanus A joke can be so big that it breaks...

February 25, 2014

Letting It All Hang Out

I was zoning out at a red light when a shiny object—or, shall I say,...

February 24, 2014

The Rich, the Poor, and Jesus

In November of 2013, Oxfam International released the results of a study that found an...

February 21, 2014

What Our Children See

“Your child,” says the executive director of a national sex-education organization, “is going to look...

February 20, 2014

You Could Be a Winner

I just entered the Publisher’s Clearing House Sweepstakes. I’ve never done anything like that before....

February 19, 2014

Pope Francis’s Beauty and Art

“Proclaiming Christ means showing that to believe in and to follow him is not only...

February 18, 2014

The Beltway Catechesis

Now that our son is almost ten, he has begun to feel his oats a...

February 14, 2014

My Valentine

Only after I hung up the first time we spoke on the phone did it...

February 13, 2014

The Contemporary Literature & Faith Debate: Weblinks

As many of our readers know, there has been a lively debate over the past...

February 12, 2014

God’s Grandeur

Guest Post By Jeanne Murray Walker I’m up at 5:30 in the morning, packing, then...

February 11, 2014

A Blaze of Holy Unease, Part 2

Continued from yesterday. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin saw creation as dynamic in matter and spirit,...

February 10, 2014

A Blaze of Holy Unease, Part 1

"Great are the works of the Lord; they are pondered by all who delight in...