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March 2017

March 20, 2017

Inheriting Trauma

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

March 16, 2017

The Beauty Dialogues, Part 2

The following is a response to Morgan Meis’s letter posted yesterday. Dear Morgan: Thanks for...

March 08, 2017

Photos, Love, and Karyotypes

I recently found remnants from college and grad school genetics classes: karyotypes—sheets of paper with...

March 02, 2017

I Am an American

I refresh the page, I refresh the page, I turn away for a few minutes,...

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 14, 2017

Weddings, Women, Sweets, and Wishes

My heirloom cookbook was born during a Washington D.C. snowstorm in February of what was...

February 13, 2017

Visiting Martin Luther in Minneapolis

A few weeks ago, I visited the Martin Luther: Art and the Reformation exhibit at...

February 09, 2017

Ready to Run

Midway along the journey of our life I woke to find myself in a dark...

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...

February 06, 2017

How To Arm Yourself Against Irrationality

If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have...

February 02, 2017

Wrestling

My son who is autistic wrestles in high school because he doesn’t mind pain. My...

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 30, 2017

The Next Abraham

A few days ago, I was blessed to be present at my grandson Abraham’s bris,...

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 23, 2017

The World at Midday

I spent Christmas Eve with my mom last month for the first time in years....

January 12, 2017

Making Contact: A Christian-Atheist Friendship, Part 2

An introduction: Decades ago, in the faraway land of Orange County, California, two young women...

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 10, 2017

Meeting Islam in Interfaith Friendships

In 1993 my husband George Dardess began visiting our local Islamic Center: first to learn...

January 09, 2017

Hea i ka Haku

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

January 05, 2017

There Is No Free Breakfast

When I joined the gym, I was given two free personal training sessions to help...

January 03, 2017

Transcendence: A Tribute to William Christenberry (1936-2016)

“The art of losing isn’t hard to master,” Elizabeth Bishop said, with irony. Still, it’s...

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 28, 2016

Thirty Minutes Without My Phone

The fact that a half-hour meal alone in an IHOP occasions its own blog post...

December 19, 2016

I Miss Gwen Ifill

For Kate Keplinger It is the blight man was born for It is Margaret that...

December 13, 2016

Keeping Vigil

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

December 07, 2016

The Patron Saint of Losers, Part 2

This post, which appears as the Editorial Statement in Image issue 90, is continued from...

December 06, 2016

The Patron Saint of Losers, Part 1

This post appears as the Editorial Statement in Image issue 90. One of the stranger conversations...