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2017-07-26T14:59:58-07:00

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Our Lady of Czestochowa

Last updated on: July 26, 2017 at 2:59 pm By Guest Contributor

Before a metastasizing cancer had fully whittled away her quality of life, my mother left me, on a cold November morning. I found her slumped over the bathtub in my New Hampshire home, just steps away from the guest room where she often slept. I did not rush to her rescue, or to move her from the odd position she was in. Though I said “Mom?” I knew she was dead. At the hospital, what I remember were my mother’s... Read more

2017-07-25T14:32:37-07:00

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Who Is This Aliveness I Am?

Last updated on: July 25, 2017 at 2:32 pm By Richard Chess

I am alive. I am alive. I am alive. Who is this aliveness I am? What is this aliveness I am? How is this aliveness I am? (more…) Read more

2017-07-18T11:34:18-07:00

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Poetry Friday: “Graveyard Prayer”

Last updated on: July 18, 2017 at 11:34 am By Image

In this poem, Robert Cording places himself in an unusual spot: “at the graveyard where I’ll be / buried” and even specifically sitting “on my gravesite.” The poem is a testing out of various tones toward this meeting place of the living moment and its inevitable future end. Teasingly, he calls himself “a Constable imposter” as he lies back gazing at the clouds. Mockingly, he sees his dead self as “steeping in my own juices,” beyond his current enjoyment of... Read more

2017-08-07T10:57:06-07:00

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Still Pilgrim

Last updated on: August 7, 2017 at 10:57 am By Peggy Rosenthal

Still Pilgrim. Just the title of Angela Alaimo O’Donnell’s new poetry collection makes you pause. Pun and paradox reverberate through the title terms. A pilgrim is someone on a journey…a spiritual journey. “Still” can mean unmoving, motionless (definitely not journeying). But, further, “still” can mean ongoing, as in “I’m still doing that.” These contradictory concepts lie at the heart of Still Pilgrim. And there’s more fluidity, too: the persona in the poems is often the poet herself, but can also... Read more

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2017-07-27T11:55:50-07:00

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The Baptisms on Pentecost

Last updated on: July 27, 2017 at 11:55 am By Guest Contributor

Our guests at the baptism on Sunday agreed, all of our friends and family, many of whom simply don’t care for church or really can’t stand church or usually wouldn’t be caught dead in a church, but all of them, all of them agreed: Yes, what a beautiful cathedral, and wasn’t the choir amazing, and the liturgy, all of it so rich, and well, honestly some of the prayers about renouncing Satan were kind of weird, and everyone drinking from... Read more

2017-07-27T11:56:11-07:00

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As Petals Fall

Last updated on: July 27, 2017 at 11:56 am By Guest Contributor

“Why are you in the dirt?” he asked, trundling to where I crouched. “I’m pulling weeds.” “Why?” “So that there’s there more room for the flowers.” “Why?” “Because I like the flowers.” “Why?” “Because they’re pretty.” By that time his mother arrived. “He’s three,” she said. “We hear a lot of why.” (more…) Read more

2017-07-12T16:00:20-07:00

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A Conversation with Ron Austin

Last updated on: July 12, 2017 at 4:00 pm By Guest Contributor

This post is a web-exclusive feature accompanying Image issue 93. In the conversation around faith and film, Ron Austin is an elder statesman. He has worked a lifetime in the entertainment industry, and his essays and books, including In a New Light: Spirituality and Media Arts, have influenced generations of filmmakers (much of his writing is also on his website). His seminal essay “The Spiritual Frontiers of Film” is reprinted in our summer issue. It’s a challenging and worthwhile read—but on... Read more

2017-07-18T11:22:23-07:00

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Poetry Friday: “On Value”

Last updated on: July 18, 2017 at 11:22 am By Image

I’m amazed by the flexibility of the sonnet form. When you first read Kelly Cherry’s delightful poem “On Value,” you wouldn’t notice that it’s a sonnet (except that I’ve just told you!). The enjambment of nearly every line swooshes you past the end-rhymes without your noticing them. You read Cherry’s meditation on the philosophical concept of “value”; you smile at the interpolations of what her hair is doing. It’s only on a second or third reading that you see how... Read more

2017-07-21T10:01:26-07:00

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The Businessman’s Faith

Last updated on: July 21, 2017 at 10:01 am By Brad Fruhauff

One year ago, I abandoned the nonprofit and academic world to become a freelance copywriter, a man whose goal was to help businesses share their stories with the world. I fancied myself something of an author-consultant, a skilled writer who could chart out the best alignment of speaker, message, and audience. I told people I was a marketer, or that I wrote webpages, blogs, and email newsletters for businesses. Occasionally, I would tell them I “had my own business.” Which... Read more

2017-07-19T09:35:20-07:00

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Summer’s Heartbeat

Last updated on: July 19, 2017 at 9:35 am By Natalie Vestin

On some summer nights, it seems the world is brighter, more visible in a quiet way, as if the dusk was created for your pleasure. On some summer nights, it seems you can see through the false dome of sky to what lies beyond, air glimmering just for you. There’s a vertiginous sense that the heavens are just about to fall, that strange unproven sense of doom we mistake for true prescience. It’s a symptom of a heart attack too—sense... Read more

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