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2017-06-02T12:43:14-07:00

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On the 50th Anniversary of the Six-Day War

Last updated on: June 2, 2017 at 12:43 pm By Richard Chess

What I didn’t know in June of 1967 was that this month and year for Jews around the world was the moment of great triumph, the moment of saying to Hitler and his legions, you lose, you lose, you lose. Pride moved like a fever throughout Kingston Estates Swim Club, from the Jewish mother with her iced tea to the Jewish mother seated with mahjong tiles spread out before her, from the Jewish father at the plate to the Jewish... Read more

2017-05-30T11:26:52-07:00

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Poetry Friday: “June Prayer”

Last updated on: May 30, 2017 at 11:26 am By Image

How to pray for someone bent over by grief when nature is stretching upward in the June sunshine? This is the question posed by Robert Cording’s “June Prayer.” We learn in the course of the poem that the young son of a woman “I love” has died months ago, and that she asks the poet to pray for relief from her grief. Much of this poem’s action takes place in the final words of lines whose grammar runs into the... Read more

2017-05-30T12:15:49-07:00

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The Beauty Dialogues, Part 6

Last updated on: May 30, 2017 at 12:15 pm By Image

Today Gregory Wolfe continues his periodic exchanges on the nature of beauty with Image contributor Morgan Meis. Dear Morgan, Well, yesterday you took your swing all right. I just can’t tell if you’ve decked me or…whiffed. In either case, I’m certainly dazed! I told you last time that I have no formal philosophical training, so in one sense I’m helpless to answer you in kind. If only you’d challenged me to a close reading of Finnegans Wake…. Now that you’ve... Read more

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2017-05-19T10:05:13-07:00

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The Beauty Dialogues, Part 5

Last updated on: May 19, 2017 at 10:05 am By Morgan Meis

Today Morgan Meis continues his periodic exchanges on the nature of beauty with Image founder Gregory Wolfe. Dear Greg, In your last letter, you asked me not to hesitate in taking a “real swing” at you, philosophically speaking. (Or were you suggesting that this tête-à-tête must inevitably culminate in the back of an alley somewhere?) I’ve been setting up the foundation for doing so over the last couple of letters. But maybe it is time to draw the threads together... Read more

2017-05-30T11:15:40-07:00

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Preaching the End of the World

Last updated on: May 30, 2017 at 11:15 am By Caroline Langston

For my husband, Brian Jarboe I learned the news that guitarist Chris Cornell’s death had been declared a suicide on Thursday, May 18—which also happened to be the fourth day in a row I had not managed to get over to the pharmacy to pick up my antidepressant prescription. Which meant that I had not taken my medicine for at least four, maybe five, days. I felt vaguely apprehensive about the prospect, for sure, but I’m not a major sufferer... Read more

2017-05-24T12:50:22-07:00

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Poetry Friday: “The Key”

Last updated on: May 24, 2017 at 12:50 pm By Image

I love this poem for its exuberance. The fat bee, “big as a blackberry,” bumping heavily against the pane. The impossibility of an acorn’s power. The very idea of “infant waterfalls.” Each vivid, particular thing of beauty from the natural world that Friman presents to us bears itself simply and humbly– yet appears remarkable when dressed in Friman’s carefully chosen verbs. There are few poems about happiness that demand my attention in quite this way (Malena Morling’s “Happiness” is one),... Read more

2017-05-19T10:38:51-07:00

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A Conversation with Van Gessel

Last updated on: May 19, 2017 at 10:38 am By Image

By Mary Kenagy Mitchell Van Gessel has been Shusaku Endo’s primary English translator since the 1970s. He has translated eight of his novels and worked as a consultant on Martin Scorsese’s adaptation of Silence. I asked him about the previously untranslated Endo story in Image issue 92, and about what Endo’s work has to say to the West. Image: Can you tell us a little about the history of the story “Hymn to the Blessed Mother”? How did you first come... Read more

2017-05-19T10:04:37-07:00

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Alleluia for the Easter Season

Last updated on: May 19, 2017 at 10:04 am By Peggy Rosenthal

I used to find Easter a letdown. Lent is so full of the self-improvement activities of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving. I typically add a midday prayer to my usual Morning and Evening Prayer. I decide what organizations I want to give alms to: a different one each week of Lent. And fasting: not from food (my health doesn’t allow for that), but from something I feel is keeping me from closeness to God. The past few years it has been... Read more

2017-05-19T10:04:46-07:00

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Inventing the Kingdom, Part 2

Last updated on: May 19, 2017 at 10:04 am By Gregory Wolfe

This post, which appears as the Editorial Statement in Image issue 92, is continued from yesterday. [Link to yesterday’s post here] “I consider myself a sort of portrait artist,” Carrère says, and his other books bear this out, but in The Kingdom most of the best portraits are of the bit players. Carrère’s rendering of Saint Paul, on the other hand, is straight out of central casting: a vain megalomaniac, a sort of Gnostic heresiarch eager to escape the world and... Read more

2017-05-19T10:04:53-07:00

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Inventing the Kingdom, Part 1

Last updated on: May 19, 2017 at 10:04 am By Gregory Wolfe

This post appears as the Editorial Statement in Image issue 92. When The Kingdom landed on my desk with a thud, I could tell that it would pose a challenge—that it would be a book I had to contend with. In addition to being a substantial tome, it comes with the cultural imprimatur conveyed by its publisher, the venerable Farrar, Straus and Giroux, whose backlist includes the likes of Czeslaw Milosz, Seamus Heaney, and Flannery O’Connor. From the publicity materials I learned... Read more

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