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February 2018

February 01, 2018

My Frankenstein

My Frankenstein is first and foremost a novel. A custard-colored Pound Classic published by Penguin...

August 2017

August 07, 2017

The Iron Cross, Part 1

This post originally appeared on “Good Letters” on October 13, 2014. I didn’t know Julia...

December 2016

December 08, 2016

Why Annie Dillard Supports Image

Dear readers, When Image was founded in 1989, we turned to a few literary exemplars...

November 2016

November 17, 2016

There is More to See: A Letter from Gregory Wolfe

Dear friends, We are entering a season of thanksgiving, and soon we’ll begin a season...

October 2016

October 19, 2016

Reading (in) Walden

What are the classics but the noblest recorded thoughts of man? They are the only...

October 03, 2016

T.S. Eliot, Agent of His Own Demise

In my last post for Good Letters, I took minor issue with a point my...

September 2016

September 08, 2016

The New Critics and the Barbarians

The poet and writer Dana Gioia penned an essay for the December 2013 issue of...

September 02, 2016

My Own Commencement, Part 2: The Uses of Confusion

This post is excerpted from Gregory Wolfe’s final commencement address as director of the Seattle...

July 2016

July 14, 2016

C.S. Lewis, Less Than Magical

I first encountered C.S. Lewis in Mere Christianity, then quickly consumed The Screwtape Letters, The...

January 2016

January 05, 2016

A Metaphorical God, Part 2

Continued from yesterday. In some ways, “mystery” is perhaps the boldest term we chose as...

January 04, 2016

A Metaphorical God, Part 1

The following is adapted from the preface to The Operation of Grace: Further Essays on...

November 2015

November 10, 2015

The Evidence of Things Not Seen

Since I’ve been blogging here at Good Letters I have been contacted by several friends who knew...

September 2015

September 29, 2015

Save the Economy: Read the Classics

I was reading Pope Francis's encyclical Laudato Si when I began an article called "What...

July 2015

July 06, 2015

The Bearable Weightiness of Being

By Amy Peterson I was restless this spring, edging manic. I think my kids noticed....

April 2015

April 24, 2015

The Soul of the Law

At the beginning of the old Norton Anthology of English Literature (4th Ed.) appeared this...

September 2014

September 22, 2014

The Demons That Possess Us

When I graduated from Seattle Pacific’s MFA program, I was sorely disappointed to hear Greg...

September 23, 2013

The Image Top 50 Contemporary Writers of Faith

By Gregory Wolfe Last week we posted a list of The Top 25 Contemporary Writers...

June 2013

June 04, 2013

Booked: Reading My Way Back to Faith

I accidentally read my way back to church in graduate school. I hadn’t been any...