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February 2016

February 18, 2016

Everyone’s Waiting for the Victory Song

Everyone knows what happened. Everyone lifts a steaming spoon of cinnamon oatmeal to their lips....

December 2015

December 11, 2015

Poetry Friday: “Annunciation” by Katharine Coles

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

June 2015

June 18, 2015

A Holy Habitation for Life’s Story

By Allison Backous Troy May the Lord bless thee out of Zion; and so shalt...

June 12, 2015

Sunday Morning at Wegmans, Prince George’s County, Maryland

It is the Feast of Pentecost on the Eastern Orthodox calendar, the annual commemoration of...

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...

May 2015

May 26, 2015

Self-Hating Jew: A Love Story, Part 1

In response to “Never Again: Netanyahu’s Holocaust Cliché,” a recent post of mine on Good...

May 22, 2015

The Two Lists

Seven-year old Isaiah found a small desk in the back of our garage and claimed...

May 21, 2015

While My Pen Gently Weeps

My daughter Gracie was helping me prepare dinner one evening. We were doing the bœuf...

May 14, 2015

Contemplative Questions: An Interview on Spirituality and Prayer with Fr. Raymond Shore, OP, Part 2

Continued from yesterday. Jan Vallone: You say that joy is the knowledge of the possession...

May 13, 2015

Contemplative Questions: An Interview on Spirituality and Prayer with Fr. Raymond Shore, OP, Part 1

Spurred by both confusion and curiosity, I recently took a graduate course on contemporary spirituality...

May 06, 2015

My Rainbow Connection, Disconnected

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

April 2015

April 17, 2015

Jesus Through Poets’ Eyes

In my Catholic faith, Easter lasts for seven weeks, until Pentecost; so I'm not too...

March 2015

March 19, 2015

The Bible, Science, and Higher Education

By Vic Sizemore In an evening church service at Thomas Road Baptist Church in Lynchburg,...

January 2015

January 23, 2015

American Idol: A Guide for Hearing God’s Voice, Part 2

Continued from yesterday. While many desires prompt goodness, others trigger evil and thus can’t be...

January 22, 2015

American Idol: A Guide for Hearing God’s Voice, Part 1

I love American Idol and could hardly wait until this month when the fourteenth season...

March 2014

March 12, 2014

The United Cinematic States of America

Guest post by Gareth Higgins “You have to be a stranger to the landscape to...

January 2014

January 10, 2014

Each Woman Mary, Each Child Christ

I found respite recently in Jeanne Murray Walker’s essay on Alice Munro in Image, describing...

October 2013

October 29, 2013

Eve, the Apple, and the Need To Know: The Imago Dei Project

I’ve been thinking about Genesis lately. In this past month, the lectionary included Eve’s succumbing...

July 2013

July 26, 2013

The Truth Told Slant

Every winter I plunge into darkness. As Seattle days shorten to eight hours with clouds...

July 24, 2013

The Poetry of Self-Absorbed Young Love

Until I was thirty-two, I was afraid to think about God. I panicked at what...

July 15, 2013

What We Learn

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

June 2013

June 27, 2013

The Fragrance of the Unknown, Part 2

Continued from yesterday From my mindfulness meditation practice, I’ve learned the value of looking closely...

June 26, 2013

The Fragrance of the Unknown, Part 1

With less than two days before the retreat began, and only a grain of time...

January 2013

January 25, 2013

Advice for My Little Sister

Twelve years passed, almost to the day, between my birth and the birth of my...

August 2012

August 14, 2012

Shaping the Heart

The following post is an edited version of the commencement address given at the graduation...

July 2012

July 19, 2012

A Holy Habitation for Life’s Story

May the Lord bless thee out of Zion; and so shalt thou behold the good...

July 02, 2012

My Kingdom Come

“For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall...

June 2012

June 28, 2012

Who Needs to Read Anymore?

At the community college where I teach—actually in the state capitol two hours away—a massive...