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October 2014

October 17, 2014

Inside Matisse’s Chapel of Cut-Outs

At the end of his life, Henri Matisse made art for a chapel. It was...

October 16, 2014

Holding the Blade of Sacrifice

I had fallen asleep thinking about the Sacrifice of Isaac: The account, given in Genesis,...

October 15, 2014

Smelling a Rat

Guest post by Suzanne M. Wolfe About a year ago I felt an overpowering urge...

October 14, 2014

The Iron Cross: An Observation from the Way of Saint James, Part 2

Continued from yesterday. The Way of Saint James—El Camino de Santiago—is a pilgrimage that began...

October 06, 2014

The Self and the Shadow

Guest post by Holly LeCraw Lately, I am drawn more and more to the thought...

October 01, 2014

Who Lives? A Meditation for the Days of Awe 5775

“And who by fire, who by water, / Who in the sunshine, who in the...

September 2014

September 29, 2014

Jesus and the Junkie in My Car

You learn a lot about your neighborhood when you drive a junkie from the laundromat...

September 24, 2014

Rubble and Re-Creation

“Good Letters” is pleased today to welcome Chris Hoke as a regular contributor. In the...

September 19, 2014

Surrendering the Lead: An Observation from the Way of Saint James, Part 2

Continued from yesterday. On our seventh day walking El Camino de Santiago, my husband and...

September 17, 2014

We All Have a Place on the Great Chain of Being

Somewhere along the Great Chain of Being, we all have our place. That’s an old...

September 09, 2014

Slogans in Ruins: Land for Peace, Two State Solution

“Hope lost and fear won,” said Udi Segal, the diplomatic correspondent for Israel’s Channel 2...

September 08, 2014

My Garden, the Book of Joel, and God’s Plagues

First came the vine borers. These are moths. The females lay their eggs inside the...

August 2014

August 28, 2014

The Creationist Crisis Reprise

Several months ago I blogged about the Ken Ham Bill Nye debate at Liberty University....

August 25, 2014

We Who Are Left Behind

“Why’d you let go?” Conrad Jarrett shouts at the ceiling, in a climactic scene in...

August 21, 2014

The Gift of Gravy Days

Well, I’ve reached my three score and ten years. It must sound positively ancient to...

August 15, 2014

Our Mother Mary

Today is the Feast of the Dormition (the “falling asleep”) of the Mother of God....

June 2014

June 03, 2014

This Crazy Pope

“Good Letters” is pleased today to welcome Morgan Meis as a regular contributor. Read Image’s...

May 2014

May 30, 2014

Courage in Community: 25 Years of Image

Guest post by Hunter Sharpless To celebrate Image’s twenty-fifth anniversary we are posting a series...

May 27, 2014

Mystery and (Southern) Manners

It’s a chicken-and-egg kind of question I get all the time, but I don’t think...

May 21, 2014

Graciously Effaced: Saintseneca’s Dark Arc

Guest post by Isaac Anderson Last August, Billy Corgan, of Smashing Pumpkins fame, got some...

May 20, 2014

Prado’s Ex-Voto: Dumbfounded By Mystics and Clothing Stores

What might it be like to truly live with God? Not in the way I...

May 08, 2014

Did Dante Convert Me?

Many years ago, my husband took a job in Rochester, New York, four hundred miles...

May 07, 2014

Christians in the Age of Sincerity

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

May 06, 2014

What Now?

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

April 2014

April 28, 2014

Pennies from Heaven

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

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 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...

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 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 17, 2014

The Shroud of Turin

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