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February 2013

February 18, 2013

A Matched Pair of Restraining Orders

Guest Post by Cathy Warner One Sunday during my first year of parish ministry, I...

February 13, 2013

What are You Doing for Lent?

“So what are you doing for Lent this year, Bill?” This was my annual question...

February 11, 2013

Top 25 Films on Marriage

Arts & Faith's Top 25 Films on Marriage list was recently released by Image Journal, in...

February 06, 2013

Visiting My Own Grave

Guest Post by Christine A. Scheller “My father is Jewish, my mother is Jewish, I...

January 2013

January 31, 2013

An Embarrassment of Riches: The Good Letters Archives

Since 2008, Image Journal’s Good Letters blog has amassed over a thousand posts. In our...

January 30, 2013

Learning to See Beauty

When I taught Spanish in public school I projected Hispanic and Latino artwork on my...

January 25, 2013

Advice for My Little Sister

Twelve years passed, almost to the day, between my birth and the birth of my...

January 13, 2013

The Poetics of Painting

Part Four: Tradition Guest Post By Daniel Siedell Today’s post concludes our occasional series on...

January 08, 2013

Traditional New Year’s Food

At the end of December I talked to a friend of mine who lives in...

January 04, 2013

Reynolds Price and Me: The Tale of Two Rhodes Scholars

Part Two Guest Post By Casey N. Cep Continued from yesterday. Years passed and fewer...

January 03, 2013

Reynolds Price and Me: The Tale of Two Rhodes Scholars

Part One Guest Post By Casey N. Cep Fifty years ago Reynolds Price slithered onto...

December 2012

December 31, 2012

Home is the Place: Twelve Songs for 2012

Guest Post by Joel Heng Hartse Robert Frost wrote, “Home is the place where, when...

December 17, 2012

God Help Me

Center-frayed I begin to ponder—in the way one probes an aching tooth with the tongue—whether...

December 16, 2012

The Christmas I Sat Next to a Sex Offender

Last year my husband and I celebrated our first Christmas with our infant daughter. She...

December 13, 2012

The Hobbit on Steroids

In a public library, there waited The Hobbit. And in a cineplex, there screened The...

December 10, 2012

Seasons of the Soul

Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday morning since August I’ve walked a long wooded path to...

November 2012

November 19, 2012

The Poetics of Painting: Part Three

Part Three: Standing Before a Painting Guest Post By Daniel A. Siedell A painting is...

November 15, 2012

My Grandmother and the Hurricane, Both Gone Now

To live in the mercy of God. Awe, not comfort…. And awe suddenly passing beyond...

October 2012

October 20, 2012

Join Us for a Good Letters Event in Washington, DC, November 14

Words. Made Flesh. An Evening With Gregory Wolfe and the Writers of Image journal's "Good...

October 16, 2012

The Poetics of Painting: Part Two

Part Two: Beyond the Image Guest Post By Daniel Siedell Have you ever been underwhelmed...

September 2012

September 10, 2012

A Heart Exposed

By Jessica Eddings-Roeser Guest Post My husband is asleep in bed, snuggled under our powder...

August 2012

August 30, 2012

The Poetics of Painting: Part One

Part One: Pigments on a Canvas Guest Post By Daniel Siedell With this post we...

August 27, 2012

Orthodoxy and the Returns of Love

This summer marks the eleventh year of my conversion. I’ve spent the past eleven years...

August 23, 2012

The Rock-afire Explosion and Pizza Parlor Tricks

Pay no attention to the man—or rather, the band—behind the curtain. Like Dorothy and her...

August 22, 2012

I am Barack Obama/Mitt Romney/Adonai and I Approve This Message

Listen to me: America doesn’t need an outsourcing pioneer in the oval office. Listen to...

August 16, 2012

Gethsemane Companions

To David T., David R., Anna, Tyler, Jamie, Jenny, Jake, Jillian, and the rest Over...

August 15, 2012

Parenting 101

The latest fashionable parenting wisdom is that a parent’s wisdom doesn’t matter. Some public intellectuals...

August 10, 2012

The Final Chapter in a Promising Young Life

I was driving when it occurred to me that it has been twenty years since...

July 2012

July 11, 2012

The Bleeding Woman: an Imagining

—This story was inspired by Mark 5:21-43, the gospel reading for Sunday, July 1. Twelve...