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April 2017

April 11, 2017

Take, Eat

By Sneha Abraham. I clutch the edge of the cracked leather seat and close my...

April 06, 2017

Muddy River

By Jen Pollock Michel. It was the summer of Leiby Kletzy, the eight-year-old Hasidic boy...

March 2017

March 29, 2017

My Bad Italy Novel

February is offseason in Rome, so today the city is a little gray, a little...

March 21, 2017

Calling the Lapsed

By E.D. The parish party was a bust. As a member of the Parish Council,...

March 20, 2017

Inheriting Trauma

By Callie Feyen. Until a few months ago, I thought Aleppo, Syria was one word....

March 14, 2017

Souvenirs from the Waste Land: An Interview with Alastair John Gordon, Part 2

Continued from yesterday. Alastair John Gordon’s newest exhibit, “Souvenirs from the Waste Land,” draws on...

March 13, 2017

Souvenirs from the Waste Land: An Interview with Alastair John Gordon, Part 1

By Nicole Miller. Historically, modern art has prized originality and authenticity. But alongside this tradition...

March 07, 2017

An Interview with George Saunders, Part 2

Beloved fiction writer George Saunders just published his first novel, Lincoln in the Bardo, an...

March 06, 2017

An Interview with George Saunders, Part 1

Beloved fiction writer George Saunders has long been known for his daring short stories, collected...

March 01, 2017

Bible Thumping

By Dyana Herron. I once saw a girl beaned in the head with a Bible....

February 2017

February 28, 2017

Dinner with Dona Adélia

Jessica Goudeau’s translations of the work of Adélia Prado, Brazil’s foremost living poet, appear in...

February 16, 2017

Epiphany in the Memory Unit

By Cameron Dezen Hammon. The priest’s wife handed me her half full can of beer....

February 08, 2017

Literacy Class: Learning the Language of Love

By D.L. Mayfield. This past week, I taught my last English class for quite some...

January 2017

January 31, 2017

The Casserole Dish Manifesto

By Tony Woodlief. I possessed a consummate ideology before I had children. It was a...

January 26, 2017

To Run and Not Grow Weary, Part 2

By Jeffrey Overstreet. Maybe it was instinct that sent me back to relive the 1924...

January 25, 2017

To Run and Not Grow Weary, Part 1

By Jeffrey Overstreet. So, why Chariots of Fire? Why is that what I chose for...

January 11, 2017

Making Contact: A Christian-Atheist Friendship, Part 1

An introduction from Tania Runyan: Decades ago, in the faraway land of Orange County, California,...

January 09, 2017

Hea i ka Haku

By Marlene Muller On day two we fired the harpist. “The music is really very...

January 02, 2017

Poem for the New Year: “In the Candleroom at Saint Bartholomew’s on New Year’s Eve” By Heather Sellers

This poem moves me and impresses me with its sense of almost-but-not-quite arriving at connection....

December 2016

December 29, 2016

Quaecumque Vera: 16 Songs for 2016

By Joel Heng Hartse You do not have to feel guilty about loving music. Please...

December 26, 2016

A Love Supreme: The Surprising Art of Sedrick Huckaby

This essay is a web exclusive accompanying Image journal’s current issue, #90. By Bruce Herman...

December 21, 2016

On the Front Lines

By Paul Anderson Seven months ago, I was teaching writing to high school seniors at...

December 15, 2016

A Conversation with Scott Derrickson, Part 2

Continued from yesterday. Scott Derrickson is a director whose films include The Exorcism of Emily Rose,...

December 14, 2016

A Conversation with Scott Derrickson, Part 1

Interviewed by Nick Olson Scott Derrickson is a director whose films include The Exorcism of Emily Rose,...

December 13, 2016

Keeping Vigil

By Suzanne M. Wolfe These are dark times. Here in the northern hemisphere the sun...

December 12, 2016

Stopping the Press

By Mary Kenagy Mitchell This is the time of year when we work on Image’s...

December 01, 2016

Good Letters Is My Devotional

By Cathy Warner I came to Christianity in my mid-twenties and joined a Protestant church...

November 2016

November 23, 2016

The Gift of Interdependence

By Camellia Freeman This story has many beginnings. It begins with the great state of...

October 2016

October 25, 2016

A Conversation with Pinckney Benedict

This post originally appeared as a web-exclusive feature accompanying Image journal issue 57. Mary Kenagy Mitchell...

October 21, 2016

Poetry Friday: “Hive Boxes” by Megan Snyder-Camp

The sounds in this poem! I love its compactness and humming—its slender shape on the...