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October 2018

October 12, 2018

Poetry Friday: “Lord, Sky”

The compelling narrative of “Lord, Sky,” set during the time of an election, is also...

October 10, 2018

Humans Love Heroes

In the video James Corden approaches a podium wearing a dark grey suit and a...

August 2018

August 06, 2018

Can a Racist Drive a Prius? Stereotypes and the Single Story

I think it's good for me when my stereotypes of others are challenged. Like this...

August 14, 2017

An American Body Politic

A show about Russian spies living in D.C. during the Cold War easily brings to...

June 2017

June 21, 2017

A Conversation with Lauren Winner, Part 2

By Mary Kenagy Mitchell Continued from yesterday. This post originally appeared as a web-exclusive feature accompanying Image issue 84....

May 2017

May 18, 2017

Trump and the Borgias: The Stuff of Great TV

It’s hard to imagine that anyone would look back on this period of American history...

May 15, 2017

The Madding Crowd

Why is it that we so often gain courage or cowardice to do bad from...

March 2017

March 30, 2017

Share If You Agree

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

March 02, 2017

I Am an American

I refresh the page, I refresh the page, I turn away for a few minutes,...

February 2017

February 27, 2017

Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Our Rumbling Nation

This is an age of the world when nations are trembling and convulsed. A mighty...

February 06, 2017

How To Arm Yourself Against Irrationality

If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have...

January 2017

January 31, 2017

The Casserole Dish Manifesto

By Tony Woodlief. I possessed a consummate ideology before I had children. It was a...

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...

November 02, 2016

The Best Words: Selections from the Sex Tapes of Tremendous Male Poets

I knew a woman, lovely in her bones, When small birds sighed, she would sigh...

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...

June 2016

June 27, 2016

Dead People: Leszek Kolakowski (1927-2009)

For Gregory Wolfe The following is an excerpt from Meis’s new book Dead People, published...

June 15, 2016

More Incisive, More Powerful, More Permanent: Cast Your Vote for Image!

A political season is upon us. I’m guessing that whatever your party affiliation or philosophical...

April 2016

April 04, 2016

Choose Life, North Carolina

This day, I call upon the heaven and the earth as witnesses: I have set...

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,...

March 15, 2016

Diego Rivera’s Detroit Industry

The Detroit Institute of Art (DIA) is obviously not a religious institution. But damn if...

February 2016

February 29, 2016

Love Your Enemies for Lent

Another campaign season is upon us with a vengeance. Actually it's campaign seasons—since the U.S....

December 2015

December 14, 2015

The Greater Evil: Proscription or Compulsion?

There’s a new law in China, and it’s aimed at weakening a faith. As the...

September 2015

September 10, 2015

A Lottery for Barbarians

From time to time in my unorthodox career, I’ve found myself teaching a class—be it...

May 2015

May 28, 2015

What Is a Christian?

According to recent survey by the Pew Research Center, the number of U.S. adults who...

April 2015

April 21, 2015

What Will Pass for Mercy

By Brian Volck “Do not say God is just. Justice has not been evident in...

April 01, 2015

Never Again: Netanyahu’s Holocaust Cliché

In the air, on the air, tunneling through cables, conquering newsrooms, occupying the mouths of...

February 2015

February 26, 2015

The Courage of Men

By Suzanne M. Wolfe Twenty one men dressed in orange jump-suits are kneeling in a...

January 2015

January 05, 2015

#BlackLivesMatter to Poets

Poets are rising to the cause, hands raised ("Don't shoot!") but hands also holding pencils...

October 2014

October 08, 2014

Renouncing the Gridiron

I gave up sports for the same reason I gave up politics and pornography. I...

September 2014

September 15, 2014

Detonating Jonah

When news broke this summer that Sunni extremists with ISIS, the Islamic State in Iraq...