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March 2018

March 30, 2018

Poetry Friday: “Manifest, by Reason of Birth”

Throughout her poetry, Pattiann Rogers observes and describes the natural world with profound detail, compassion,...

January 2018

January 31, 2018

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’s Hidden Identity

My annual family Christmas letter swelled from a single paragraph into a sixteen-page spread before...

November 2016

November 14, 2016

How Do You Write?

Do you write with a pen? Do you write with the wind? Do you pray...

October 2015

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...

June 2015

June 04, 2015

A Place Where We Can Talk

By Brian Volck "Somewhere is better than anywhere." —Flannery O'Connor In my sophomore year of college,...

June 03, 2015

The Science and Sundayness of Play

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

June 01, 2015

Charlie Hebdo and the Inner Soul of Humor

My friend Justin Smith recently wrote a piece for Harper’s Magazine. Justin is a brilliant...

May 2015

May 27, 2015

What Cannot Be Fixed

I remember the time when "entropy" was all the rage. It must have been in...

May 06, 2015

My Rainbow Connection, Disconnected

By Chad Thomas Johnston It was a Saturday night and my wife, Becki, wanted to...

March 2015

March 23, 2015

The Healing Art: Doctors Prescribing Poems

My hematologist, who has monitored my leukemia for the past ten years, copied me into...

March 03, 2015

The Arts and Faith Top 25 Films on Memory

By Ryan Holt For me, there is no more acute reminder of the passing of...

February 2015

February 20, 2015

Back to the Drawing Board

To say I can't draw myself out of a cardboard box is to assume I...

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 27, 2015

Kissing Sideways

“I want to write,” people often tell me, eager to talk about the myriad ways...

December 2014

December 23, 2014

The Ardent Whisper of God

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

January 2014

January 15, 2014

Waking My Mother: Lost and Found

When someone dies, we say to the surviving family members, “I’m sorry for your loss.”...

August 2013

August 15, 2013

Genius(es) Wanted

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

July 2013

July 09, 2013

A Baby Smaller Than Roosevelt’s Eye

Guest Post By Lindsey DeLoach Jones For most new parents, the first glimpse of the...

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 10, 2013

A Theology of Singleness, Part 2

Guest Post By J. M. Samuelson Continued from yesterday. Alan Jacobs recently made a wise...

April 2013

April 22, 2013

The Inestimable Value of Clichés

In his great work, Earthly Powers, Anthony Burgess has the main character—Kenneth Toomey, a doddering,...

April 03, 2013

The Poems Left In Me

With gratitude to the poets whose poems gave me this. The poems left in me...

November 2012

November 08, 2012

The Fool and the Beloved: Part One

Guest Post By Stuart Scadron-Wattles I recently gave a guest lecture for a graduate...

October 2012

October 04, 2012

Words both Real and True

I belong to a movie group that meets monthly in one another’s living rooms...

October 03, 2012

The Tower of Light

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth and the makings of a...

June 2012

June 27, 2012

Writing on Empty

Last week, I finished the fifth revision of my fifth novel, and got notice from...

June 25, 2012

Art at the Crossroads, Part 2

Continued from Friday In order to start treating being an artist more like a...

June 22, 2012

Art at the Crossroads, Part One

Have leisure and know that I am God. —Psalm 65:11 For a long time...