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May 2018

May 15, 2018

Notes on Heresy

I haven’t any major gripes with the Roman Catholic Church. On the whole, I feel...

April 2018

April 26, 2018

Do I Have Anything Left to Say?

When the email came in from my editor, I wasn’t sure how to answer. What...

August 2017

August 24, 2017

Global Neighbors

This post originally appeared in Good Letters on October 20, 2011 In the last few...

August 17, 2017

Life, Death, Bread, Host

Guest Post by Laura Bramon This post originally appeared at "Good Letters" on August 18,...

July 2017

July 26, 2017

The Baptisms on Pentecost

Our guests at the baptism on Sunday agreed, all of our friends and family, many...

July 12, 2017

Your Attention, Please

Dear Friends: I received two emails recently from writers you likely know and admire. Like...

May 2017

May 01, 2017

Passover and Government Presence

“In what ways do you experience the presence of government—city, county, state, federal—in your life,...

March 2017

March 30, 2017

Share If You Agree

I have had it with the rage. It might drive me off social media. At...

February 2017

February 07, 2017

The Song of the Desert

“The Word of God which is his comfort is also his distress. The liturgy, which...

January 2017

January 30, 2017

The Next Abraham

A few days ago, I was blessed to be present at my grandson Abraham’s bris,...

January 20, 2017

Poetry Friday: “Sister Storm”

I love the drama of this poem. Its title recalls St. Francis’s “Canticle of Brother...

December 2016

December 19, 2016

I Miss Gwen Ifill

For Kate Keplinger It is the blight man was born for It is Margaret that...

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 29, 2016

A Farmer’s Lament

Last weekend, I cooked lunch for three farmers. One of them was my husband. The...

November 15, 2016

Stiff Necked Church Lady

Church Ladies. Most of them are pretty darn good souls. They’re at the church every...

October 2016

October 31, 2016

The Resurrection Volvo

Just about nine months ago—the Tuesday after Valentine’s Day, to be exact—I hit a carload...

September 2016

September 13, 2016

My September 11 Story, and Ours, Part II

For Scott Simon, and for Bill Craven Continued from yesterday. In the back of my...

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...

July 2016

July 15, 2016

Poetry Friday: “I Am Poured Out Like Water”

What attracts me to this poem is something deliberately absent yet evocatively present: baptism in...

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 18, 2016

Dancing on the Way to Prison

By John Bryant I’m standing in a circle with thirty singing and swaying old men...

February 2016

February 16, 2016

Your Ideal Church

I don't mean to brag, but I attend your ideal church. If you’re a millennial...

January 2016

January 25, 2016

Listening to Simone

By Christiana N. Peterson The woman stands in the entryway of our common building just...

November 2015

November 13, 2015

Poetry Friday: “Mixed Company” by Brett Foster

Each Friday at Good Letters we feature a poem from the pages of Image, selected and...

October 2015

October 16, 2015

The Way of Saint James

My Uncle Jimmy died in September at the age of ninety. Born in Sicily, he...

October 09, 2015

Our Lady’s Football Team

Every Saturday morning in fall I wake up and feel a tinge of disappointment that...

October 07, 2015

Life-Saving Moments of Art

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

August 2015

August 05, 2015

Kent Haruf and the Tie that Binds

By Rebecca A. Spears When you know people all your life you try to understand...

July 2015

July 15, 2015

A Conversation with Artist Natalie Settles, Part 1

By Natalie Settles This post was made possible through the support of a grant from...

June 2015

June 26, 2015

Divine Drudgery

Two weeks after we moved to the Mennonite community in rural Illinois, a baby was...