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April 2018

April 20, 2018

Poetry Friday: “The Years Were Patient with Me”

I love this poem because it mirrors the passing of time, patiently guiding readers through...

June 2017

June 01, 2017

The Beauty Dialogues, Part 6

Today Gregory Wolfe continues his periodic exchanges on the nature of beauty with Image contributor...

May 2017

May 30, 2017

Preaching the End of the World

For my husband, Brian Jarboe I learned the news that guitarist Chris Cornell’s death had...

April 2017

April 05, 2017

The Beauty Dialogues, Part 4

The following is a response to Morgan Meis’s letter posted yesterday. Dear Morgan: I’m enjoying...

April 03, 2017

God’s Acquaintances

They say God won’t let you go under; but it seems he will let your...

March 2017

March 16, 2017

The Beauty Dialogues, Part 2

The following is a response to Morgan Meis’s letter posted yesterday. Dear Morgan: Thanks for...

March 15, 2017

The Beauty Dialogues, Part 1

Today Morgan Meis continues his periodic exchanges with Image founder Gregory Wolfe. Dear Greg, When...

January 2017

January 12, 2017

Making Contact: A Christian-Atheist Friendship, Part 2

An introduction: Decades ago, in the faraway land of Orange County, California, two young women...

September 2016

September 22, 2016

The Smell of Black Mold

By John Bryant I write in order that the ornery old bastard and toothless schizophrenic...

February 2016

February 17, 2016

Drive-By Memory

My first memory takes place in Lakewood, CA, a small suburb south of Los Angeles....

November 2015

November 10, 2015

The Evidence of Things Not Seen

Since I’ve been blogging here at Good Letters I have been contacted by several friends who knew...

June 2015

June 18, 2015

A Holy Habitation for Life’s Story

By Allison Backous Troy May the Lord bless thee out of Zion; and so shalt...

January 2015

January 26, 2015

Is My Truth Your Truth?

I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections Or the beauty of...

July 2014

July 02, 2014

Mangled Science, Mangled Truth, Part 2

Continued from yesterday. Mathematicians sometimes employ the imagery of a three-dimensional landscape to represent the...

July 01, 2014

Mangled Science, Mangled Truth, Part 1

It’s one of those intellectual nuggets you tuck away for dinner parties: A recent psychological...

November 2013

November 22, 2013

Opting for Paradox: 25 Years of Image

The poet Ezra Pound made the phrase “Make It New” the rallying cry of artistic...

November 15, 2013

Francis and the Via Negativa Part 2

Continued from yesterday. In retrospect, my reaction to Pope Francis’s election makes so much more...

October 2013

October 15, 2013

Why Should Darkness Seem Truer Than Light?

In her memoir, Pieces of Someday, my friend and periodic "Good Letters" guest writer Jan...

February 2013

February 01, 2013

What is Truth?

"It's a slippery slope when a companies don't deliver what they promise." Yes, "a companies."...