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July 2018

July 25, 2018

Life Is Short; Art is Long

As part of our tourist rounds in Chicago my wife and I visited the Art...

March 2018

March 22, 2018

Halos and Other Important Things

In second grade my mom put me in an art class taught by a fluffy-haired...

October 2017

October 16, 2017

The Arm, the Girl, and the Guard

In a long room with three doorways in Tokyo's National Museum of Modern Art, somewhere...

June 2017

June 14, 2017

The Beauty Dialogues, Part 7

Today philosopher Santiago Ramos steps in with the last word (we think) of “The Beauty Dialogues,” a...

June 08, 2017

Thine is the Transkingdom

Jasmine Temple, laboratory technician at New York University Lagone Medical Center, Institute for Systems Genetics,...

June 01, 2017

The Beauty Dialogues, Part 6

Today Gregory Wolfe continues his periodic exchanges on the nature of beauty with Image contributor...

May 2017

May 31, 2017

The Beauty Dialogues, Part 5

Today Morgan Meis continues his periodic exchanges on the nature of beauty with Image founder...

April 2017

April 27, 2017

Brunelleschi’s Balancing Act

The story goes that one day Filippo Brunelleschi, the goldsmith who would go on to...

April 25, 2017

When Art Disrupts Religion: An Interview with Philip Salim Francis

Just released by Oxford University Press, When Art Disrupts Religion: Aesthetic Experience and the Evangelical...

April 05, 2017

The Beauty Dialogues, Part 4

The following is a response to Morgan Meis’s letter posted yesterday. Dear Morgan: I’m enjoying...

April 04, 2017

The Beauty Dialogues, Part 3

Today Morgan Meis continues his periodic exchanges with Image founder Gregory Wolfe. Dear Greg, Thanks...

March 2017

March 29, 2017

My Bad Italy Novel

February is offseason in Rome, so today the city is a little gray, a little...

March 16, 2017

The Beauty Dialogues, Part 2

The following is a response to Morgan Meis’s letter posted yesterday. Dear Morgan: Thanks for...

March 15, 2017

The Beauty Dialogues, Part 1

Today Morgan Meis continues his periodic exchanges with Image founder Gregory Wolfe. Dear Greg, When...

March 08, 2017

Photos, Love, and Karyotypes

I recently found remnants from college and grad school genetics classes: karyotypes—sheets of paper with...

January 2017

January 17, 2017

Black Lives, Black Art

I happened to be re-reading Uncle Tom’s Cabin when the current issue of Image (#90)...

December 2016

December 26, 2016

A Love Supreme: The Surprising Art of Sedrick Huckaby

This essay is a web exclusive accompanying Image journal’s current issue, #90. By Bruce Herman...

November 2016

November 16, 2016

What We Talk About When We Talk About Beauty

I have beauty on the mind. No doubt a result of my ongoing debate with...

October 2016

October 26, 2016

The Debate About Beauty

I’ve been engaged in an ongoing wrangle with Gregory Wolfe about the status of Christian...

April 2016

April 07, 2016

Imitating the Saints

St. Therese once wished aloud that her own mother would die. When her mother scolded...

March 2016

March 21, 2016

A Space Program

The tenth item on a list entitled “How to Watch This Film,” which accompanies Tom Sachs' A...

March 17, 2016

Changing Positions: A Meditation for Campaign Season

(With help from Donovan, D. T. Suzuki, Qingyuan Weixin, Wallace Stevens, democracy, REM, Bonnie Raitt,...

March 15, 2016

Diego Rivera’s Detroit Industry

The Detroit Institute of Art (DIA) is obviously not a religious institution. But damn if...

February 2016

February 23, 2016

Poetry in a Season of Lament, Part 2

Two Poets Laureate On Grief, Detachment, and Finding New Ways to Live, Part 2 By...

February 19, 2016

Fiat Lux: Cathedral of the Pines

This summer in Paris, on the morning before we flew home, I took my husband...

February 08, 2016

Why Art?

I'm propped in bed reading my current bedtime novel. Pausing to reflect on a particularly...

January 2016

January 27, 2016

Where to Hang Your Grief

My daughters Lydia and Becca, ages 12 and 10, are thoroughly delighted by the contemporary...

January 05, 2016

A Metaphorical God, Part 2

Continued from yesterday. In some ways, “mystery” is perhaps the boldest term we chose as...

January 04, 2016

A Metaphorical God, Part 1

The following is adapted from the preface to The Operation of Grace: Further Essays on...

October 2015

October 21, 2015

The Rothko Chapel: The Dark Before the Dawn

By Rebecca A. Spears The few years I lived in Houston’s Menil neighborhood, right behind...