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2017-05-09T11:55:55-07:00

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Love Nailed to the Doorpost

Last updated on: May 9, 2017 at 11:55 am By Richard Chess

The commandment to love is nailed to my doorpost. Ritualistically written on a little piece of parchment, rolled up, tucked inside a beautifully painted ceramic case, and nailed aslant to the doorpost. I almost never notice it. Not when I’m rushing out of the house in the morning, book bag and gym bag slung over my shoulder, head down, rushing to the car, desperate to get to campus before the last available parking spot is taken in the lot at... Read more

2017-03-20T21:12:50-07:00

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The Landscape of Grief

Last updated on: March 20, 2017 at 9:12 pm By Christiana N. Peterson

Grief is like a long valley, a winding valley where any bend may reveal a totally new landscape. —C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed I drag my three children outside for a walk. They are too young to understand how desperately I need to take advantage of the warm weather even if it’s a landscape of dormant fields, melting mud, brittle gray plants that line the bridge and sides of the road, a bright red barn against yellowed grass. Lest I... Read more

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Christiana N. Peterson

2017-05-09T12:18:51-07:00

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Calling the Lapsed

Last updated on: May 9, 2017 at 12:18 pm By Guest Contributor

By E.D. The parish party was a bust. As a member of the Parish Council, I had promised—yet not followed through—on calling the database of lapsed Catholics the Council had acquired by asking parishioners to fill out notecards during Sunday Mass, listing friends and family members who had fallen away. Of the targeted invitees, the lapsed Catholics, only one showed up. And the Council attendees ambushed her, four of us at once, smiling so hard our faces hurt. I needed... Read more

2017-05-09T12:19:03-07:00

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Inheriting Trauma

Last updated on: May 9, 2017 at 12:19 pm By Guest Contributor

By Callie Feyen. Until a few months ago, I thought Aleppo, Syria was one word. I’d never seen it in print, only heard it, and just once, from the lips of my grandmother. “I was born in Aleppo, Syria,” she said, and since there was no pause between the “o” and the “s” I figured she was referring to a country somewhere in the Middle East. “You know, Damascus?” That’s what she said next. I know because I have it... Read more

2017-03-08T16:57:06-07:00

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Poetry Friday: “In Tandem”

Last updated on: March 8, 2017 at 4:57 pm By Image

Here is a poem that takes aim at our clichés about aging and death. It does so with subtle cleverness, by putting “in tandem” an old spruce tree and the nursing home resident to whom the poem is addressed. Though there’s no stanza break, the poem divides into two parts, each of nine lines. The first part is all negatives: the clichés (like “it had a good life”) that we would not apply to the tree if it toppled over... Read more

2017-03-20T21:13:14-07:00

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The Beauty Dialogues, Part 2

Last updated on: March 20, 2017 at 9:13 pm By Gregory Wolfe

The following is a response to Morgan Meis’s letter posted yesterday. Dear Morgan: Thanks for throwing down this particular gauntlet. Yes, we adopted Dostoevsky’s phrase from The Idiot, where one of the characters attributes the saying “beauty will save the world” to the eponymous hero of the novel, Prince Myshkin. I’m well aware that any slogan or mantra can quickly become a stand-in for real thought, for Jacob-and-the-angel wrestling with difficult, complex subjects. Neither I nor the extended Image community... Read more

2017-03-20T21:13:22-07:00

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The Beauty Dialogues, Part 1

Last updated on: March 20, 2017 at 9:13 pm By Morgan Meis

Today Morgan Meis continues his periodic exchanges with Image founder Gregory Wolfe. Dear Greg, When we first started our conversation (see posts here, here and here for background), I thought we were having a debate about the declining relevance of religious intellectuals in today’s public realm. But that’s not what it was really about. At its heart, this conversation has always been about beauty. So, I think we should get right to that, to beauty. I don’t know the story... Read more

2017-03-10T16:13:10-07:00

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Souvenirs from the Waste Land: An Interview with Alastair John Gordon, Part 2

Last updated on: March 10, 2017 at 4:13 pm By Guest Contributor

Continued from yesterday. Alastair John Gordon’s newest exhibit, “Souvenirs from the Waste Land,” draws on the postcard collection of Howard and Roberta Ahmanson, philanthropists and art collectors in L.A. Their collection includes mementos from their travels, scenes of architectural interest, and reproductions of works of art—over 18,500 postcards in all. I spoke with Gordon by phone and over email to discuss his interest in both the gallery and the gift shop. Nicole Miller: Viewers may not recognize the features of... Read more

Souvenirs from the Wasteland

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2017-05-09T12:19:24-07:00

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Souvenirs from the Waste Land: An Interview with Alastair John Gordon, Part 1

Last updated on: May 9, 2017 at 12:19 pm By Guest Contributor

By Nicole Miller. Historically, modern art has prized originality and authenticity. But alongside this tradition runs another set of practices: replication and tactics of illusion. The Romans made copies of Greek sculptures; Northern Europeans in the seventeenth century practiced an illusionistic approach to still life painting called quodlibet, or “what you will”; American pop art reproduced images of mass-produced, consumer goods. Alastair John Gordon’s work is indebted to these traditions and to mass media print culture. The London-based artist’s new... Read more

Souvenirs from the Wasteland

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2017-03-08T16:29:28-07:00

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Poetry Friday: “Grief Daybook: A Love Supreme”

Last updated on: March 8, 2017 at 4:29 pm By Image

It’s fairly common for a poem to be inspired by (or be in conversation with) a famous painting. Less often, though, do we find poems engaging with a musical work. Yet that’s just what happens in Carol Davis’s poem “Grief Daybook: A Love Supreme.” Fans of the brilliant jazz saxophonist and composer John Coltrane will immediately recognize in Davis’s title the name of Coltrane’s masterpiece, “A Love Supreme.” And a line from the final movement of this work, “Psalm,” is... Read more

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