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January 2015

January 02, 2015

This Dark World is Precious to Me: 14 Songs for 2014

Guest post by Joel Heng Hartse This is my seventh yearly playlist for Good Letters....

December 2014

December 31, 2014

Arts & Faith Ecumenical Jury Awards: The Top Ten Films of 2014

Guest post by Kenneth R. Morefield In my post announcing the formation of the Arts...

December 30, 2014

Barry Moser: I Knew I was Home, Part 2

Guest post by Barry Moser The following post, continued from yesterday, is adapted from a...

December 23, 2014

The Ardent Whisper of God

Guest post by A.N. Muia The following post is adapted from a talk given at...

December 19, 2014

Over the Rhine: Finding Our Tribe

Guest post by Linford Detweiler The following post is adapted from a talk given at...

October 2014

October 17, 2014

Inside Matisse’s Chapel of Cut-Outs

At the end of his life, Henri Matisse made art for a chapel. It was...

October 10, 2014

Pasternak: Artist and Holy Fool

As I read the essay “The Writer and the Valet” in my latest issue of...

August 2014

August 29, 2014

Fiction is Truer than Fact

In Jill Lepore’s extraordinary biography of Ben Franklin’s sister Jane, Book of Ages, a short...

August 19, 2014

Susan Sontag, Simon Weil, and the Pursuit of Seriousness

I could stare for many hours at that famous 1975 picture of Susan Sontag lying...

May 2014

May 06, 2014

What Now?

Guest Post By Scott Cairns Image has just published its 25th anniversary issue (#80). We’re...

March 2014

March 27, 2014

Creation, Evolution, and the Over-Active Imagination, Part 2

Guest post By Jeremy Begbie In yesterday’s post I had to skip over a lot...

January 2014

January 06, 2014

The Problem with Waiting, Part 1

I don’t have much time. I’m sitting in a coffee shop less than a mile...

December 2013

December 30, 2013

Face to Face: The Imago Dei Project

Guest Post by Kathleen L. Housley In November, I attended a colloquy presented by Image...

December 27, 2013

Making It New: The Image Fall Appeal

Consider the coffee table. It’s a venerable and eminently practical piece of furniture. Most of...

August 2013

August 26, 2013

The Mill and the Cross

In Breughel’s panoramic painting, “The Procession to Calvary,” the fallen Savior, collapsed under the cross beam,...

August 15, 2013

Genius(es) Wanted

Guest Post By Santiago Ramos Where do literary geniuses come from? Or should the question...

July 2013

July 15, 2013

What We Learn

As he is evacuated from a battle zone, Chris Taylor—Oliver Stone’s protagonist in Platoon—marches us...

May 2013

May 20, 2013

Why We Make Art

“Who you actually are is far bigger than the narrative you construct about who you...

May 06, 2013

Tuck In Your Artifice, It’s Showing

When someone shared Michael Chabon’s New York Review of Books blog post about the movies...

April 2013

April 29, 2013

Partaking and Passing On: The Work of Luci Shaw

The world is not with us—enough. O taste and see. –Denise Levertov, “Taste and See”...

April 26, 2013

Luci Shaw’s Poetry of Hope and Humility

The pale bits—twigs, fibers, pine needles—sun struck, fall through the lazy air as if yearning...

March 2013

March 01, 2013

Feeling the Questions: A Serious Man and Footnote

“Why does he make us feel the questions if he won’t give us the answers?”...

February 2013

February 24, 2013

Arts and Faith Oscars 2013 Chat

Join Image's Arts and Faith discussion community for a live Oscars Night chat below! All...

February 11, 2013

Top 25 Films on Marriage

Arts & Faith's Top 25 Films on Marriage list was recently released by Image Journal, in...

January 2013

January 29, 2013

Beauty Is as Beauty Does

The current issue of Image (#75) is full of rich mini-essays on some of the...

January 11, 2013

Whispers of Faith in a Postmodern World

The Wall Street Journal featured this article by Image founder and editor Gregory Wolfe on Friday,...