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July 2017

July 18, 2017

Necessary Images, Part 2

This post, continued from yesterday, appears as the Editorial Statement in Image issue #93 on the art of film guest...

July 17, 2017

Necessary Images, Part 1

This post appears as the Editorial Statement in Image issue #93 on the art of film guest edited by...

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 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 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...

December 2016

December 16, 2016

Poetry Friday: “A Christmas Story”

In “A Christmas Story,” Robert Cording evokes Aleksander Wat (1900-1967), a Polish poet that converted...

December 09, 2016

Poetry Friday: “Advent” by Bruce Bond

I’ve heard many people say we’ve never needed poetry more than we do now, but...

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...

October 24, 2016

Glorying in Flawless Skin and God’s Love

Driving in the car recently, my daughter pulled down the visor in front of her...

July 2016

July 12, 2016

Eat the Delicious Earth

A year ago, I started cooking and learning how to prepare and love food in...

May 2016

May 24, 2016

Purple Light in Sarajevo

My fellowship liaison, Sevko, drove, and his gaze flicked across teenagers spilling over the sidewalks....

May 17, 2016

Grief and the Weight of Glory

The wind whips through the quilts and sheets on our clothesline, cracking now and then...

April 2016

April 15, 2016

Poetry Friday: “The Grackles” by Betsy Sholl

Here is a poem that silently enacts a conversion. The poem starts off with a...

March 2016

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,...

February 2016

February 01, 2016

How Much God Loves Us

By John Bryant He was born with cerebral palsy and he has it all the...

November 2015

November 04, 2015

Listening to a Stranger’s Story

I am boarding a plane to Detroit, and so is she, her thick coat falling...

October 2015

October 13, 2015

Lucia Berlin: A Master of Catholic Fiction, Part 2

By Jenny Shank Continued from yesterday. Catholic imagery appears throughout Lucia Berlin’s A Manual for...

September 2015

September 30, 2015

Beauty Will Save the Seventh Grade

By Callie R. Feyen The school administrator wants to know when my students will experience...

February 2015

February 17, 2015

The Inner Life of Everyday Objects

On a morning when I was doing laundry, I was also reading Edward Dougherty's new...

January 2015

January 30, 2015

The House Where Beauty Lives

"Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe...

January 09, 2015

Wearing a Coat of Many Colors

Around eight years ago, I bought a coat. I hardly ever bought brand-new clothes, and...

July 2014

July 15, 2014

Everybody Should Write Poetry

People who read poetry but don’t write it are like those who have just heard...

June 2014

June 20, 2014

Maya Angelou’s Caged Bird and Me

But a plea, that upward to Heaven he flings —Paul Lawrence Dunbar, “Sympathy” I...

May 2014

May 14, 2014

Sunday in Sweet Afton

Last Sunday my wife decided to celebrate the end of our semester by taking a...