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March 2014

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 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 05, 2014

Risen Words

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

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 18, 2014

The Beltway Catechesis

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

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 11, 2014

A Blaze of Holy Unease, Part 2

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

January 2014

January 30, 2014

The Second Coming of Flannery O’Connor

The ongoing conversation about contemporary literature and faith that I have been having with Dana...

January 09, 2014

The Contemporary Novel of Belief, Part 2

In yesterday’s post I wrote about author and critic Paul Elie’s contention that few contemporary...

January 08, 2014

The Contemporary Novel of Belief, Part 1

Writing a response to a published essay can be seen as public service, a way...

January 07, 2014

The Problem With Waiting, Part 2

Continued from yesterday. Gioia seems to be suggesting two conditions necessary for a resurgence...

January 06, 2014

The Problem with Waiting, Part 1

I don’t have much time. I’m sitting in a coffee shop less than a mile...

December 2013

December 31, 2013

These Boots Are Made For…Beauty

Guest Post by Tania Runyan I’m washing dishes while my third-grade daughter and her friend...

December 30, 2013

Face to Face: The Imago Dei Project

Guest Post by Kathleen L. Housley In November, I attended a colloquy presented by Image...

December 27, 2013

Making It New: The Image Fall Appeal

Consider the coffee table. It’s a venerable and eminently practical piece of furniture. Most of...

December 24, 2013

The Cave of the Heart

Not long ago a young man announced on a video chat site that he intended...

December 20, 2013

Blue Christmas

A few years ago, I learned about a church—an Evangelical Free Church—that holds an annual...

December 19, 2013

Blow on the Coal of the Heart

I light the first candle of Advent. We have no wreath. This is our first...

December 05, 2013

This Great Hunger

“Right there is where it started,” he says, pointing out the window to emerald pastures...

December 02, 2013

Living Advent

“What should I do for Advent this year, Bill?” The year was 1993. Bill had...

November 2013

November 25, 2013

My Soul Thirsts

My children’s Michigan fact book says you can’t go more than eight miles without hitting...

November 13, 2013

I Don’t Have Time

In our current Western culture, we think we have control of time. With our watches...

November 05, 2013

What We Wish For, What We Think Is True, Part 2

Guest Post By Isaac Anderson Continued from yesterday. After we've gone our separate ways to...

November 04, 2013

What We Wish For, What We Think Is True, Part 1

Guest Post By Isaac Anderson We are always reasoning from the seen to the unseen....

October 2013

October 23, 2013

Only God is an Atheist, Part 2

It was not out of sheer flattery that Thomas Merton compared Flannery O’Connor to Sophocles,...

October 22, 2013

Only God is an Atheist, Part 1

When she was twenty-one years old, far from home and as yet uncelebrated, Flannery O’Connor...

September 2013

September 29, 2013

Wabi-sabi: Living with Beauty and Ugliness

Yesterday, a man might have killed me. Both receptionists were away from the counter when...

September 20, 2013

Roots Trip to the Castles in My Bloodline, Part 2

Continued from yesterday. A tempest of Winters temper—mine—had blown through the Highlands of Scotland...

September 19, 2013

Roots Trip To the Castles in My Bloodline, Part 1

If you grew up in the Seventies as I did, you might recall a popular...