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Kathleen Wakefield
Through her poems, Kathleen Wakefield looks at the world with great tenderness. We like to think that her poems see people and things the way God sees them, with the eyes of patience and affection.
The We of Me: Varieties of Kinship in American Nonfiction
Darling: A Spiritual Autobiography by Richard Rodriguez
White Girls by Hilton Als
Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward
Review by Isaac Anderson
How Else Would God Enter?
The Corpse Flower: New & Selected Poems by Bruce Beasley
Mary’s House: New & Selected Poems by David Craig
Some Heaven by Todd Davis
Apropos of Nothing by Richard Jones
Review by Peggy Rosenthal
The Heart of the Whole
Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
The Pale King by David Foster Wallace
Review by Santiago Ramos
Read interviews with David Bazan, Scott Russell Sanders, Terry Tempest Williams, Alice McDermott, and more...
An Apprenticeship in Affliction: Waiting with Simone Weil
Peggy Rosenthal is influenced by one philosopher’s unconventional religious philosophy and development of self.
Lady Undressing
Anne Welch makes sense of her career as a hospital secretary—a career that ended with a tragedy.
Language as Sacrament in the New Testament
Franz Wright is astounded that Jesus would call him his friend.
Lord God Bird
Isaac Anderson reflects on the intermittence of experiencing God.
Best American Essays
Honorable Mention 2013
Heart’s Companion: Listening to Leonard Cohen
Bill Coyle on Leonard Cohen’s use of lyricism as the acknowledgment of brokenness.
Bent Body, Lamb
Molly McCully Brown offers a tender, comic reflection on her reluctant journey into the Catholic Church and coming to terms with her body’s limitations.
Read essays on Kurt Vonnegut the Christ-loving atheist, Nick Cave’s enchanted world, and more...
The Glen Workshop, a program of Image, began in 1995 as an innovative event combining the best elements of a workshop, an arts festival, and a spiritual retreat.
Special Topics
The Word-Soaked World: Troubling the Lexicon of Art & Faith
This collection of short essays demonstrates the push-pull relationship believing artists have with words: We are in pursuit of a God who is revealed through the poetry of the oldest Psalms, but whose true name is impossible to pronounce.
Film
Road films. Horror films. Films on marriage. Divine comedies. We love movies. Do you? We’ve got you covered.
Why Believe in God?
We put it to a group of writers, artists, filmmakers, and musicians: At a time in human history when religious faith is called not only out-of-date but malignant, why do you believe?
The Landscape of Art & Faith
What is the contemporary literary climate like for writers of faith? How will they fare in the future?
Editorials
“Not since O’Connor’s Mystery and Manners has there been such bracing insight on the pile-up where art and faith collide.”
—Annie Dillard