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May 2016

May 12, 2016

A Poet Walks Into a Business Networking Event

The poet gives a young woman $15 for admission, squeezes her drink ticket like a...

May 09, 2016

Thin Places, Part 1

A few summers ago, my husband Tom and I were in Dublin for a week,...

May 02, 2016

Love in the Time of Bacteria

Last week, I walked up Dale Street from the train station. It's a perilous walk...

April 2016

April 28, 2016

Praise Bands, Lipstick, and other Futilities of the Faith

By E.D. The drummer in the rock band at my church, bangs on his drum,...

April 27, 2016

Annie Spans the Gap, Part 2

This editorial statement from issue 88 is continued from yesterday. Read Part 1 here. In...

April 19, 2016

The Wounds of Resurrection

As my husband prepared for an Easter sermon a few weeks ago, our dinnertime conversations...

April 18, 2016

Conference Envy: A Survival Guide

Yesterday I was running around the park in a T-shirt with a birthday party full...

April 15, 2016

Poetry Friday: “The Grackles” by Betsy Sholl

Here is a poem that silently enacts a conversion. The poem starts off with a...

March 2016

March 24, 2016

I Am a Digital Man

I couldn’t record it in my Flava journal app because the transformation happened slowly, like...

March 22, 2016

Refugees Are People, Not a Crisis

Sometimes the horrors in the news are so overwhelming that I’m left speechless. This is...

March 18, 2016

Dancing on the Way to Prison

By John Bryant I’m standing in a circle with thirty singing and swaying old men...

March 16, 2016

What Happened to Fun?

I was so good, and for such a long time, two weeks at least of...

March 03, 2016

My Sh’ma

By Judy Bolton-Fasman Sh’ma yisrael Adonai Elohanu Adonai echad—Hear O’ Israel the Lord is God,...

February 2016

February 09, 2016

Honey, Let’s Get Tattoos: Tattoos and Embodiment

Continued from a previous post. Read part 1 here. After my wife Katie and I...

January 2016

January 15, 2016

Honey, I Want a Tattoo

By Brad Fruhauff If Katie had had a tattoo when we met, I probably would...

January 06, 2016

Autistic Lives Matter

When I first met Daniel Bowman Jr. at the Festival of Faith and Writing, we...

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...

December 03, 2015

Above Calcutta

By Laura Bramon The summer before you died, I hid on the roof in Tollygunge....

December 01, 2015

Going to the Manger as She Is

By Ann Hedreen I drape a towel over Nick’s head and strap it in place...

November 2015

November 19, 2015

My Wish for My Students

Only this I wish for my students: this semester, I hope you will learn to...

October 2015

October 14, 2015

Driving the Dark Roads

The other day I got an email from a high-school boyfriend, which drove me headlong...

July 2015

July 17, 2015

The Eighth Day: Reclaiming a Neglected Novel

It must be a common occurrence—having certain inanimate things make periodic appearances throughout a life,...

July 14, 2015

Beauty, Christian Love, and Gay Marriage

Justice Anthony Kennedy, in the recent Supreme Court ruling legalizing same-sex marriage, wrote the following...

July 01, 2015

Dancing for My Life, Part 1

“ONE two three, LONG short short—don’t step on her!” Gulya is my dance instructor. She’s...

June 2015

June 09, 2015

The Thing Itself: Art and Poverty, Part 2

Continued from yesterday. How should we treat the poor? Among those who work on...

June 08, 2015

The Thing Itself: Art and Poverty, Part 1

The following is adapted from a presentation given at the Dominican School of Philosophy and...

May 2015

May 29, 2015

Triple Scoop

By Jessica Mesman Griffith My best friend died suddenly almost two years ago. She’d lived...

April 2015

April 22, 2015

For the Love of Money

My husband and I took a spring break trip to the central coast of California,...

April 20, 2015

My Mother, My Daughter, Myself

My daughter Anna Maria was born on Orthodox Easter Sunday—Pascha—six years ago. That year, the...

March 2015

March 16, 2015

Grace and the Incomplete Flush

Almost two years ago my husband and I bought a condo in a cool old...