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July 2017

July 17, 2017

Necessary Images, Part 1

This post appears as the Editorial Statement in Image issue #93 on the art of film guest edited by...

July 13, 2017

The Beautiful Boy

It’s barely even summer and already, in our house it is the Summer of the...

July 12, 2017

Your Attention, Please

Dear Friends: I received two emails recently from writers you likely know and admire. Like...

July 11, 2017

The Case For Charlie Gard

Charlie Gard, the English child you see here, will likely die—indeed, by the time this...

July 10, 2017

Rectifying 2017

During its four seasons from 2013 to 2016, Rectify was no stranger to critical praise....

July 06, 2017

How To Intuit a Book Title

How do poets and writers choose their book titles? I didn’t have a good answer...

July 05, 2017

The Mysteries of Revision

When a former MFA professor asked me to come to her class and speak on...

July 03, 2017

Nonviolence and the Virtue of Hope

It was nonviolence that initially brought me to my spiritual director, Fr. Bill Shannon. I...

June 2017

June 29, 2017

My Own Desert (Tortoise) Father

This post originally appeared on “Good Letters” on July 21, 2014. I didn’t spend enough...

June 28, 2017

New Names for Old Gods

For modern man, a loss of the religious center resulted in all kinds of maladies.

June 27, 2017

Practicing Presence, Part 2

The following two-part post was originally delivered as the 2017 commencement address for Trinity Academy...

June 26, 2017

Practicing Presence, Part 1

The following two-part post was originally delivered as the 2017 commencement address for Trinity Academy...

June 22, 2017

Courting Babel

This month I thought it would be a good idea to take four hours of...

June 19, 2017

Reading Love Nailed to the Doorpost

If you want to be submerged in the depths of Jewish spirituality, this is the...

June 15, 2017

A Prayer for Kendrick Lamar

It occurs to me each time I listen to Kendrick Lamar’s new album, Damn: The award winning...

June 14, 2017

The Beauty Dialogues, Part 7

Today philosopher Santiago Ramos steps in with the last word (we think) of “The Beauty Dialogues,” a...

June 13, 2017

Do Atheists Dream of Pearly Gates?

Yes even when I don’t believe there is a place in me inaccessible to unbelief...

June 12, 2017

A Book Without a Spine

The picture you see to the left is of a bookshelf in a local Starbucks....

June 09, 2017

Sufjan Stevens’ Planetarium in Paradise

By Adam Tyler Horn When Dante finally sees Beatrice near the end of the Purgatorio, he...

June 08, 2017

Thine is the Transkingdom

Jasmine Temple, laboratory technician at New York University Lagone Medical Center, Institute for Systems Genetics,...

June 07, 2017

Cutting Down the Butterfly Garden

When we bought our new house, a jungle of weeds marked the front yard. I...

June 06, 2017

Movements of the Lord

As I was saying my rosary this morning on my walk, it occurred to me...

June 05, 2017

On the 50th Anniversary of the Six-Day War

What I didn’t know in June of 1967 was that this month and year for...

June 01, 2017

The Beauty Dialogues, Part 6

Today Gregory Wolfe continues his periodic exchanges on the nature of beauty with Image contributor...

May 2017

May 31, 2017

The Beauty Dialogues, Part 5

Today Morgan Meis continues his periodic exchanges on the nature of beauty with Image founder...

May 30, 2017

Preaching the End of the World

For my husband, Brian Jarboe I learned the news that guitarist Chris Cornell’s death had...

May 25, 2017

A Conversation with Van Gessel

By Mary Kenagy Mitchell Van Gessel has been Shusaku Endo’s primary English translator since the...

May 24, 2017

Alleluia for the Easter Season

I used to find Easter a letdown. Lent is so full of the self-improvement activities...

May 23, 2017

Inventing the Kingdom, Part 2

This post, which appears as the Editorial Statement in Image issue 92, is continued from yesterday....

May 22, 2017

Inventing the Kingdom, Part 1

This post appears as the Editorial Statement in Image issue 92. When The Kingdom landed on...