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June 2017

June 01, 2017

The Beauty Dialogues, Part 6

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

March 2017

March 16, 2017

The Beauty Dialogues, Part 2

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

February 2017

February 28, 2017

Dinner with Dona Adélia

Jessica Goudeau’s translations of the work of Adélia Prado, Brazil’s foremost living poet, appear in...

January 2017

January 19, 2017

Now is the Time to Read The Man in the High Castle

Imagine an alternate history in which a regime arose in the United States that believed...

December 2016

December 08, 2016

Why Annie Dillard Supports Image

Dear readers, When Image was founded in 1989, we turned to a few literary exemplars...

December 01, 2016

Good Letters Is My Devotional

By Cathy Warner I came to Christianity in my mid-twenties and joined a Protestant church...

November 2016

November 23, 2016

The Gift of Interdependence

By Camellia Freeman This story has many beginnings. It begins with the great state of...

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...

September 2016

September 08, 2016

The New Critics and the Barbarians

The poet and writer Dana Gioia penned an essay for the December 2013 issue of...

September 02, 2016

My Own Commencement, Part 2: The Uses of Confusion

This post is excerpted from Gregory Wolfe’s final commencement address as director of the Seattle...

August 2016

August 22, 2016

Sitting Together: A Week at the Glen Workshop

I’m an introvert who loves to talk, an often confusing combination that can leave me...

March 2016

March 04, 2016

Learning Poetry, Unlearning God

By Natasha Oladokun In my sophomore year of college, I wrote a poem. Though I...

February 2016

February 19, 2016

Fiat Lux: Cathedral of the Pines

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

January 2016

January 13, 2016

Winners: Arts & Faith Ecumenical Jury Awards for 2015, Part 2

By Kenneth R. Morefield. Continued from yesterday. Read Part 1 here. Coninuing yesterday’s list of...

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...

November 2015

November 18, 2015

Christian Kerfuffles, Taking Offense, and the Poetry of Li-Young Lee

In late October, I had the privilege of teaching two workshops at the Indiana Faith...

November 02, 2015

My Soul Thirsts

My children’s Michigan fact book says you can’t go more than eight miles without hitting...

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...

October 12, 2015

Lucia Berlin: A Master of Catholic Fiction, Part 1

By Jenny Shank In September, Lucia Berlin’s posthumous collection of selected short stories A Manual for...

October 07, 2015

Life-Saving Moments of Art

In August, the musical duo Alright Alright, composed of husband and wife Seth and China...

September 2015

September 25, 2015

The Harboring Silence, Part 2

Continued from yesterday. The following editorial statement from issue 86 of Image is adapted from...

August 2015

August 25, 2015

How To Begin a Book

I’m a bit Type A for a poet—or for what people perceive as one. I...

August 13, 2015

No Better Place to End, Part 2

By Brian Volck Continued from yesterday. In describing the nature of things, the sciences and...

August 12, 2015

No Better Place to End, Part 1

By Brian Volck This post was made possible through the support of a grant from...

August 10, 2015

What Is the Future?

It’s the end of summer in the academic South, and I’m working on syllabi for...

July 2015

July 09, 2015

Art on Fire: The Life and Work of Melissa Weinman, Part 2

By Richard Cole Continued from yesterday. When Weinman completed her fellowship in Europe, she came...

July 08, 2015

Art on Fire: The Life and Work of Melissa Weinman, Part 1

By: Richard Cole In a recent painting by Melissa Weinman, a small, white rose floats...

June 2015

June 30, 2015

The Dissonant Note

This post was made possible through the support of a grant from The BioLogos Foundation’s...

June 22, 2015

The Art of the Authentic: Bill Baer’s Times Square

In 1973, Orson Welles made a documentary, F for Fake, in which he followed the...