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July 2018

July 06, 2018

Poetry Friday: “Pray That the Creek Don’t Dry Up”

Here is a poem about making a poem. The first stanza, a single sentence, stretches...

May 2018

May 28, 2018

I Am Not a Mother: I’m a Human Being

“You’re not a good mom!” My ten-year-old daughter shouted as she stomped up to her...

April 2018

April 27, 2018

Poetry Friday: “hydrangea”

This is the time of year when I anxiously wait for flowers to reappear. Our...

April 24, 2018

God’s Call and American Idol: Part 1

I love American Idol and could hardly wait until this spring when the show was revived after...

April 18, 2018

On the Path to Freedom

First seder, Passover 5778. Esther recalls climbing Mt. Pisgah in the early ’80s. She was...

November 2017

November 17, 2017

Poetry Friday: “Flying Letters”

I admire the way this poem speaks indirectly to the incomprehensible loss of military life...

October 2017

October 11, 2017

The Road to Dogmascus

I’ve clearly missed some important cultural boat, for people love so many things that I...

June 2015

June 19, 2015

Is the Gospel Good News or Bad?

Continuing a little bit what I started with my essay “What Is a Christian?,” I’ve...

September 2014

September 25, 2014

Better Red(head) than Dead

One day my mother came home from the interior decorating shop where she worked, very...

September 23, 2014

Bar Rescue, the Wedding at Cana, and Me

Guest post by Lisa Ampleman I hardly ever go to bars, and when I do,...

September 12, 2014

The Machinery of Cowardice Fails the Children of Rotherham

My children once heard someone address me as “Doctor,” and so they asked me if...

September 08, 2014

My Garden, the Book of Joel, and God’s Plagues

First came the vine borers. These are moths. The females lay their eggs inside the...

September 05, 2014

An American Girl’s Tale

Dave Ramsey, the millionaire evangelical Christian money coach who’s famous for telling his clients they...

August 2014

August 20, 2014

The Weary Lion and the Wary Lamb

Author’s note: Like many Jews around the world, I've been following the news out of...

April 2014

April 29, 2014

The Heaven of Animals: A Coin in the Mouth

Guest Post By Jen Hinst-White “I have this mystical-schmystical idea,” one of my writing teachers...

April 08, 2014

The Grace of the Unexpected, Part 2

In the first part of my post yesterday, I lamented our contemporary lack of risk,...

December 2013

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...

September 2013

September 24, 2013

Art Is Long, Life Is Short

My wife and I were in Chicago over the summer, and as part of our...

September 23, 2013

The Image Top 50 Contemporary Writers of Faith

By Gregory Wolfe Last week we posted a list of The Top 25 Contemporary Writers...

September 01, 2013

Art, Risk, & Image‘s Near-Death Experience, Part 2

Guest Post by Stuart Scadron-Wattles Read Gregory Wolfe's part 1 post here. The irony of the...

August 2013

August 30, 2013

Art, Risk, & *Image’*s Near-Death Experience

When I chose “Art and Risk” as the theme for Image journal’s 2013 Glen Workshops,...

August 23, 2013

Words for Good and Evil, Part II

Continued from yesterday. “Why is it possible,” asked Richard Feynman a year before he won...

June 2013

June 28, 2013

Remembering Deacon Patenotte

On Wednesday, June 12, 2013, at more or less the same time that I was...

June 27, 2013

The Fragrance of the Unknown, Part 2

Continued from yesterday From my mindfulness meditation practice, I’ve learned the value of looking closely...

June 05, 2013

Cathedrals of Consumption

Many years ago now, not long after I had been received into the Orthodox Church,...

May 2013

May 01, 2013

This Is the Way the World Ends

Confucius thought that social unrest could stem from dissociation between language and reality. A “rectification...

March 2013

March 12, 2013

The Hobbit, the Holy Spirit, and Calculus

It was my eleven-year-old’s turn to pick a movie, and he chose The Hobbit, just...

March 08, 2013

Can I Offer Up My Suffering?

“Pain is an evil, suffering is an evil. We mustn’t desire it. We don’t desire...

March 07, 2013

The Wonderful Contradiction of Abstract Painting

A Guest Post by Daniel Siedell My approach to abstract painting changed forever fifteen years...

February 2013

February 24, 2013

Arts and Faith Oscars 2013 Chat

Join Image's Arts and Faith discussion community for a live Oscars Night chat below! All...