Samuel Gray Anderson
Samuel Gray Anderson’s writing illustrates the slightly shocking thing about really reading, hearing, and viewing art, which we sometimes forget: it opens us up to others in a profoundly vulnerable way.
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of writers, artists, filmmakers, and musicians: At a time in human history when religious faith is called not only out-of-date but malignant, why do you believe?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
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.
Read interviews with David Bazan, Scott Russell Sanders, Terry Tempest Williams, Alice McDermott, and more...
The Rule of Life
D.L. Mayfield teaches English to East African immigrants and wonders if it’s the best way to help.
Unless a Kernel of Wheat Falls
Ryan Masters tells the story of his grief when his first child dies during birth.
Read essays on Kurt Vonnegut the Christ-loving atheist, Nick Cave’s enchanted world, and more...
The Everlasting Song
Simple Gifts: Great Hymns: One Man’s Search for Grace by Bill Henderson
Review by Beth Bevis
Into the Artworld
Seven Days in the Art World by Sarah Thornton
Artworld Prestige by Timothy Van Laar and Leonard Diepeveen
Review by Theodore L. Prescott

