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November 2017

November 24, 2017

Poetry Friday: “Saint Francis Appears at the Scene of an Accident, Then Joins the Murmuration”

Reflecting on a strange or disturbing story as a distant narrator can often have a...

November 21, 2017

The Night I Read Flannery O’Connor’s College Journal

I am. This is not pure conceit. My tea (Irish Breakfast, decaf, as it’s nearly...

November 16, 2017

A Feminine Corollary To Machismo? Part 2

My companions and I had overstayed our moment in the bishop’s suite, which was by...

November 15, 2017

A Feminine Corollary to Machismo? Part 1

After the keynote speaker at the conference, everyone in my immediate vicinity wanted a drink,...

November 06, 2017

Arcade Fire at the Empty Tomb

The end of Arcade Fire’s latest album finds the band somewhere unexpected: the tomb of...

November 01, 2017

Remembering Richard Wilbur (1921-2017), Part 2

Richard Wilbur was always a formalist at heart, but one attuned to the rhythms of...

October 2017

October 31, 2017

Remembering Richard Wilbur (1921-2017), Part 1

It was back in the summer of 1995 during Image’s Glen Workshop that I had...

October 18, 2017

Looking For Release

This post originally appeared at Good Letters on May 9, 2012. Dayne, my mother’s ex-boyfriend,...

October 17, 2017

Silent Mysteries

Lately, it seems, everyone is talking about silence—how they have less of it, how they...

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 06, 2017

The Tattoo Monologues

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

August 2017

August 30, 2017

My Tears Had Names

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

August 17, 2017

Life, Death, Bread, Host

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

August 15, 2017

Miscarriage

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

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 01, 2017

Our Lady of Czestochowa

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

July 2017

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 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...

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...

June 2017

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 09, 2017

Sufjan Stevens’ Planetarium in Paradise

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

May 2017

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 04, 2017

Singing the Qur’an in Different Voices

I sat through the meeting distracted, nervous. I should have been at ease. After all,...

May 02, 2017

Endurance Test

By Matt Newcomb. My father held the wall to work his way from the bed...

April 2017

April 25, 2017

This Place is an Altar

By Jason Bruner. Pastor David—strong, sincere, and confident in his pressed shirt and polished shoes—greets...

April 19, 2017

Always Becoming

The following is adapted from an address given at the Seattle Pacific University MFA in...