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February 2013

February 18, 2013

A Matched Pair of Restraining Orders

Guest Post by Cathy Warner One Sunday during my first year of parish ministry, I...

February 13, 2013

What are You Doing for Lent?

“So what are you doing for Lent this year, Bill?” This was my annual question...

February 11, 2013

Top 25 Films on Marriage

Arts & Faith's Top 25 Films on Marriage list was recently released by Image Journal, in...

February 11, 2013

Jesus Died for Somebody’s Sins (But Not Mine)

For Pastor Matt, who hopes to convert my skeptical ears to belief in bluegrass, and...

February 08, 2013

The Little Sisters of the Poor: Religious Conscience and Government Mandates

When you’re poor for your entire life, it’s possible to become somewhat inured to misery....

January 2013

January 29, 2013

Beauty Is as Beauty Does

The current issue of Image (#75) is full of rich mini-essays on some of the...

January 21, 2013

Writing in the Age of Unbelief

Years ago I was at a panel discussion featuring several Catholic authors when someone asked...

January 15, 2013

Silence Wounds, Silence Heals

It was there all along. Troubling me. It hurt me and aroused my sympathy for...

January 11, 2013

Whispers of Faith in a Postmodern World

The Wall Street Journal featured this article by Image founder and editor Gregory Wolfe on Friday,...

January 10, 2013

Clinging to Christmas

I cling to Christmas. I’d like to say that I have some tradition to which...

January 09, 2013

Soul Friends

“One’s ‘spiritual life’ isn’t apart from the rest of one’s life, something that goes on...

January 04, 2013

Reynolds Price and Me: The Tale of Two Rhodes Scholars

Part Two Guest Post By Casey N. Cep Continued from yesterday. Years passed and fewer...

January 03, 2013

Reynolds Price and Me: The Tale of Two Rhodes Scholars

Part One Guest Post By Casey N. Cep Fifty years ago Reynolds Price slithered onto...

December 2012

December 27, 2012

The State of Things to Come

With relation to time, Walker Percy once compared the present to the tape head on...

December 24, 2012

St. Linus the Evangelist

An Encore Post ABC recently ran its annual showing of A Charlie Brown Christmas, one...

December 20, 2012

Thomas Merton: Contemplative Outlaw

On December 10, 1968, Thomas Merton stepped out of the shower in his Bangkok hotel...

December 17, 2012

God Help Me

Center-frayed I begin to ponder—in the way one probes an aching tooth with the tongue—whether...

December 16, 2012

The Christmas I Sat Next to a Sex Offender

Last year my husband and I celebrated our first Christmas with our infant daughter. She...

December 11, 2012

Alone at Christmas

By Shannon Huffman Polson I went alone that Christmas to a place far away from...

December 07, 2012

The Eclipse of the Airport Chapel

The San Francisco International Airport has a yoga room, but no chapel. At least that’s...

November 2012

November 09, 2012

The Fool and the Beloved: Part Two

Guest Post By Stuart Scadron-Wattles Continued from yesterday. At one time during our church life...

November 08, 2012

The Fool and the Beloved: Part One

Guest Post By Stuart Scadron-Wattles I recently gave a guest lecture for a graduate...

October 2012

October 24, 2012

A Tale of Two Rivers

“In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing. We lived...

October 22, 2012

King of Kings and Showrunner of Showrunners

With the fall season of primetime television underway, the knives are out and the chopping...

October 10, 2012

Make Your Life an Altar

I recently came across a short devotional on the Abraham and Isaac story. You know...

October 09, 2012

An Original, Revised Torah

The tablets were God’s work, and the writing was God’s writing, incised upon the tablets....

October 03, 2012

The Tower of Light

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth and the makings of a...

October 03, 2012

The Evidence of Things Not Seen

Since I’ve been blogging here at Good Letters I have been contacted by several friends...

September 2012

September 21, 2012

The Theological Imagination of David Foster Wallace, Part Two

Continued from yesterday. In his now infamous 2005 commencement speech at Kenyon College, David Foster...

September 20, 2012

The Theological Imagination of David Foster Wallace, Part One

When David Foster Wallace committed suicide in 2008 there was much speculation and spilling of...