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July 2018

July 09, 2018

Won’t You Be My Neighbor?

Our son Eric was four years old. My husband George, after teaching all day at...

August 2017

August 22, 2017

Susan B. Anthony: Failure is Impossible

Just a few miles from my home in Rochester, NY, is the house where Susan...

May 2017

May 01, 2017

Passover and Government Presence

“In what ways do you experience the presence of government—city, county, state, federal—in your life,...

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 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 30, 2017

The Next Abraham

A few days ago, I was blessed to be present at my grandson Abraham’s bris,...

January 16, 2017

Martin, Everett, and Me

I am writing this essay on the fortieth anniversary of my father’s death, so my...

October 2016

October 18, 2016

Creative Tension in the White Imagination

Tension Isn’t Usually Pretty A Facebook video shows a deputy sheriff getting in the face...

October 05, 2016

The Art of Steve Prince

This post originally appeared as web-exclusive content in Image issue 78. Steve Prince, a New...

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...

September 2015

September 11, 2015

Seeking Refuge

By Shannon Huffman Polson I’d just put my two young sons to bed when I...

September 04, 2013

Today’s Child Sacrifice

The following will be delivered as a d’var Torah, reflections on the Torah reading on...

August 2013

August 28, 2013

The March on Washington: A Personal Anniversary

Guest Post By Christine A. Scheller “Many of our white brothers…have come to realize...

July 2013

July 05, 2013

Women Who Make America

Imagine that you’re in grade school in the 1950s. At Thanksgiving, Uncle Richard turns to...

June 2013

June 28, 2013

Remembering Deacon Patenotte

On Wednesday, June 12, 2013, at more or less the same time that I was...

April 2013

April 25, 2013

Israel at 65: Caught in a Homeland Trap

“People caught in a homeland-trap,” writes the late Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai in “National Thoughts,”...

March 2013

March 25, 2013

The New Improved Golden Rule

Our neighbor Jack is a retired widower. He goes to a mainline Baptist church. It’s...

November 2012

November 09, 2012

The Fool and the Beloved: Part Two

Guest Post By Stuart Scadron-Wattles Continued from yesterday. At one time during our church life...

October 2012

October 18, 2012

The Three Deadliest Words in the World: It’s a Girl

The woman in this picture has just related to a film crew how she killed...