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October 2016

October 20, 2016

A Conversation with John Terpstra

This interview originally appeared as a web-exclusive feature for Image issue 63. John Terpstra has...

October 13, 2016

A Conversation with Scott Cairns

This post originally appeared as web-exclusive content in Image issue 68. Scott Cairns, the author...

October 05, 2016

The Art of Steve Prince

This post originally appeared as web-exclusive content in Image issue 78. Steve Prince, a New...

September 2016

September 29, 2016

A Conversation with Claire Holley

This post originally appeared as a web-exclusive interview accompanying Image journal issue 58. Mary Kenagy Mitchell...

September 22, 2016

The Smell of Black Mold

By John Bryant I write in order that the ornery old bastard and toothless schizophrenic...

September 16, 2016

Poetry Friday: “Homily”

Last Sunday I was trying to decide whether to go church or take a walk...

August 2016

August 17, 2016

Florence Foster Jenkins, Holy Fool

By Asher Gelzer-Govatos In many respects the new film Florence Foster Jenkins takes a paint...

August 12, 2016

Poetry Friday: “More Strange”

This poem coaxes me to inhabit a story I’ve heard many times, and makes it...

August 02, 2016

Attending to the Body, Part II

Continued from yesterday. The following is excerpted from Attending Others: A Doctor’s Education in Bodies...

August 01, 2016

Attending to the Body, Part I

By Brian Volck The following is excerpted from Attending Others: A Doctor’s Education in Bodies...

July 2016

July 29, 2016

Poetry Friday: Four Sonnets

Sonnets meditating on illuminated manuscripts of the Middle Ages may sound a bit sanctimonious, even...

July 26, 2016

From the Engine Room, Part II: Mountains of Time

By Mary Kenagy Mitchell Continued from yesterday. Up until this point, in describing what it’s...

July 25, 2016

From the Engine Room, Part I: The Problem with Efficiency

By Mary Kenagy Mitchell About a year ago we at Image dragged ourselves into the...

July 15, 2016

Poetry Friday: “I Am Poured Out Like Water”

What attracts me to this poem is something deliberately absent yet evocatively present: baptism in...

July 08, 2016

Poetry Friday: “Again to Port Soderick”

To behold God’s creation and to praise it with language is this poem—and it is...

July 01, 2016

Poetry Friday: “For Whom the Resurrection Is the Full Moon Rising” by Mark Wagenaar

This is a poem to stretch the mind. It begins by stretching our imagination to...

June 2016

June 24, 2016

Poetry Friday: “Daybreak, Winter” by Betsy Sholl

I have a complicated relationship with the sun, having grown up in southern California and...

June 21, 2016

Knee Walk

By Grace Talusan We stumbled onto the bus in Lisbon, sleepy after the overnight flight...

June 20, 2016

My HIV Test

By Paul Luikart Here’s something I never told my parents: some years ago I got...

June 10, 2016

Poetry Friday: “Quantum Theory” by Victoria Kelly

A friend said to me once, if time were flat, if everything were always happening...

June 08, 2016

The Strength of God’s Gaze

By Laura Bramon The first time I saw her, I made up a story about...

May 2016

May 25, 2016

Impounded by Poetry

By Cathy Warner After one glass of wine, one poetry reading, and two hours, my...

May 17, 2016

Grief and the Weight of Glory

The wind whips through the quilts and sheets on our clothesline, cracking now and then...

April 2016

April 28, 2016

Praise Bands, Lipstick, and other Futilities of the Faith

By E.D. The drummer in the rock band at my church, bangs on his drum,...

April 25, 2016

The Cave of My Imagination

By Jason K. Friedman Ma’arat Ha-machpelah, the alliterative name sounded as magical to me as...

April 19, 2016

The Wounds of Resurrection

As my husband prepared for an Easter sermon a few weeks ago, our dinnertime conversations...

April 18, 2016

Conference Envy: A Survival Guide

Yesterday I was running around the park in a T-shirt with a birthday party full...

April 12, 2016

Charles of the Desert

By Rebecca A. Spears One early June, traveling to a wedding in San Diego, I’d...

April 07, 2016

Imitating the Saints

St. Therese once wished aloud that her own mother would die. When her mother scolded...

March 2016

March 31, 2016

A Rabbi, a Priest, and a Wedding: Part 2

Read Part 1 here. By Danielle Leshaw Judaism tells us how to leave. Leaving the...