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August 2018

August 27, 2018

Jesus in Disguise

My memory of last summer is filled with Jesus. Jesus in many guises behind the...

May 2018

May 16, 2018

The Life-Changing Magic of Picking Nits

I was at work last Thursday when I received the call from the school that...

March 2018

March 26, 2018

Black Mirror and My Superego Nightmare

I watched Black Mirror’s “Crocodile” episode feeling as if writer/creator Charlie Brooker had gotten into...

June 2016

June 13, 2016

Eden at the Indy 500

I managed to live in Indiana for forty years before visiting the Indianapolis 500. A...

April 2016

April 08, 2016

Poetry Friday: “Smokers, Sunday Morning, 1975” by Bobby C. Rogers

This poem seems at first to be a straight-forward narrative: a childhood recollection of the...

April 07, 2016

Imitating the Saints

St. Therese once wished aloud that her own mother would die. When her mother scolded...

March 2016

March 10, 2016

Praying the Rosary

By Laura Bramon My first rosary is invisible: a string of children’s voices ricocheting off...

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 30, 2015

Scoliosis and the Statue of St. Francis

During a windstorm, our wooden statue of St. Francis is knocked over. I lean him...

November 2015

November 13, 2015

Poetry Friday: “Mixed Company” by Brett Foster

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

October 2015

October 27, 2015

Trauma’s Not a Sin

Recently I ran across the following sentences in a status update and, in short, wanted...

August 2015

August 03, 2015

Original Sin and the Warp Effect

One of the great writers—to my recollection, Flannery O’Connor—said something to the effect that everything...

March 2015

March 20, 2015

My Only Begotten Sin

Because I remain restless and impatient even in middle age, I am often only halfway...

March 11, 2013

The Preacher’s Kid Returns

My sister my brother and I are right now, from three separate states, trying to...

February 2013

February 20, 2013

Bible Thumping

I once saw a girl beaned in the head with a Bible. Her attacker was...

December 2012

December 27, 2012

The State of Things to Come

With relation to time, Walker Percy once compared the present to the tape head on...

December 17, 2012

God Help Me

Center-frayed I begin to ponder—in the way one probes an aching tooth with the tongue—whether...

December 16, 2012

The Christmas I Sat Next to a Sex Offender

Last year my husband and I celebrated our first Christmas with our infant daughter. She...

September 2012

September 27, 2012

We Should Raze But Not Erase Evil

The arrival of so many small children at the tiny train station at Hattenheim could...

July 2012

July 02, 2012

My Kingdom Come

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

June 2012

June 18, 2012

Ray Bradbury Lives Forever

Guest Post On Labor Day weekend in 1932, a twelve year-old boy from Waukegan, Illinois,...