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May 2018

May 09, 2018

Replace STEM with STAR

STEM stands for science, technology, engineering, and math—hyped now as the crucial core of an...

October 2017

October 23, 2017

The Best in Bedtime Reading

A therapist I once went to for help with insomnia advised me: “Stop reading a...

June 2017

June 27, 2017

Practicing Presence, Part 2

The following two-part post was originally delivered as the 2017 commencement address for Trinity Academy...

January 2017

January 18, 2017

Image’s 16 Most-Read of 2016

As I was looking over Image’s website analytics at the end of 2016, I confess...

October 2016

October 19, 2016

Reading (in) Walden

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

August 2016

August 29, 2016

Laura Ingalls Wilder and Me

At night at the Ingalls Homestead in DeSmet, SD, we can see the pale, translucent...

July 2016

July 26, 2016

From the Engine Room, Part II: Mountains of Time

By Mary Kenagy Mitchell Continued from yesterday. Up until this point, in describing what it’s...

July 25, 2016

From the Engine Room, Part I: The Problem with Efficiency

By Mary Kenagy Mitchell About a year ago we at Image dragged ourselves into the...

October 2015

October 05, 2015

Dr. Seuss and Dietrich Bonhoeffer

By Kathleen L. Housley I am reading a biography of the theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who...

April 2015

April 09, 2015

Literacy Class: Learning the Language of Love

This past week, I taught my last English class for quite some time. Three years...

January 2015

January 27, 2015

Kissing Sideways

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

September 2013

September 25, 2013

All I Needed to Know I Learned from the Phonebook

Sing in me, O Muse: That like Navin R. Johnson—the “I was born a poor...

August 2013

August 02, 2013

In Praise of the Printed Book, Part 2

By Warren Farha Guest Post Continued from yesterday. An increasing torrent of books and articles...

August 01, 2013

In Praise of the Printed Book, Part 1

By Warren Farha Guest Post Note: This post and the one following it have been...

June 2013

June 06, 2013

How Shall I Answer If God Calls My Name?

Here I am. Out of place. The computer terminal asks for my borrower's card ID....

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...