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September 2017

September 12, 2017

American Fool: The Theology of Denis Johnson

Denis Johnson died this past summer at the age of 67. Many have said that...

September 11, 2017

Remembering 9/11 in Washington D.C.

Sixteen years later, 9/11 seems so distant that it is merely a touchstone for rhetoric....

September 07, 2017

Still on the Line

I will not claim credit for many things, but one virtue I own is that...

September 06, 2017

The Tattoo Monologues

Getting a tattoo is not only about deciding what to etch onto one’s body forever,...

September 05, 2017

Dark Forest on Fire

"We've got five years, that's all we've got," sang Ziggy Stardust forty-five years ago. Did...

August 2017

August 31, 2017

Holmes, Help My Unbelief

There on my bookcase was a row of nine matching hardbacks. On their spines, a...

August 30, 2017

My Tears Had Names

Guest Post The phone rang. My newborn must have been asleep—I have no recollection of...

August 24, 2017

Global Neighbors

This post originally appeared in Good Letters on October 20, 2011 In the last few...

August 23, 2017

The Sweetness These Days

On the phone, he says, Your mother throws me over her shoulder and carries...

August 22, 2017

Susan B. Anthony: Failure is Impossible

Just a few miles from my home in Rochester, NY, is the house where Susan...

August 21, 2017

Prowling the Woods

My father told me that when he used to bird hunt through the Kilgore Hills...

August 17, 2017

Life, Death, Bread, Host

Guest Post by Laura Bramon This post originally appeared at "Good Letters" on August 18,...

August 16, 2017

Entering the Age of Subtraction

I am entering the Age of Subtraction. Almost as if there existed an imperceptible fulcrum...

August 15, 2017

Miscarriage

Guest Post One of the first official symptoms of pregnancy is an out of character...

August 14, 2017

An American Body Politic

A show about Russian spies living in D.C. during the Cold War easily brings to...

August 10, 2017

Guns N’ Roses in This Lifetime

The first time I encountered Guns N’ Roses, it was a flag hanging on the...

August 09, 2017

Possessed

It refused to rain during the hot, middling July weeks the summer I turned fifteen....

August 08, 2017

The Iron Cross, Part 2

This post originally appeared on “Good Letters” on October 14, 2014. Continued from yesterday. The...

August 07, 2017

The Iron Cross, Part 1

This post originally appeared on “Good Letters” on October 13, 2014. I didn’t know Julia...

August 03, 2017

Smelling A Rat

This post originally appeared on “Good Letters” on October 15, 2014. About a year ago...

August 02, 2017

Rules for the Male Gaze

Once, in high school, a guy in the trombone section brought a Playboy to band...

August 01, 2017

Our Lady of Czestochowa

Before a metastasizing cancer had fully whittled away her quality of life, my mother left...

July 2017

July 31, 2017

Who Is This Aliveness I Am?

I am alive. I am alive. I am alive. Who is this aliveness I...

July 27, 2017

Still Pilgrim

Still Pilgrim. Just the title of Angela Alaimo O’Donnell’s new poetry collection makes you pause....

July 26, 2017

The Baptisms on Pentecost

Our guests at the baptism on Sunday agreed, all of our friends and family, many...

July 25, 2017

As Petals Fall

“Why are you in the dirt?” he asked, trundling to where I crouched. “I’m pulling...

July 24, 2017

A Conversation with Ron Austin

This post is a web-exclusive feature accompanying Image issue 93. In the conversation around faith and...

July 20, 2017

The Businessman’s Faith

One year ago, I abandoned the nonprofit and academic world to become a freelance copywriter,...

July 19, 2017

Summer’s Heartbeat

On some summer nights, it seems the world is brighter, more visible in a quiet...

July 18, 2017

Necessary Images, Part 2

This post, continued from yesterday, appears as the Editorial Statement in Image issue #93 on the art of film guest...