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Nancy Naomi Carlson
Carlson reveals more in her hushed tone than could ever be kept silent. And maybe that is what mystery is meant to be—not a need for secrets, but the eternal potential for ever more nuanced truth.
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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...
Lord God Bird
Isaac Anderson reflects on the intermittence of experiencing God.
Best American Essays
Honorable Mention 2013
Love Letters
Lee Isaac Chung on Hollywood’s American dream as seen through the eyes of Korean immigrants.
The Cloud of Unknowing
Kevin Honold ponders probation and frames his existence through migration and the words of an anonymous fourteenth century English priest.
Into Deep Waters
Laura Bramon Good frames her musings on the body through pregnancy and her aging grandmother.
Read essays on Kurt Vonnegut the Christ-loving atheist, Nick Cave’s enchanted world, and more...
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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 Landscape of Art & Faith
What is the contemporary literary climate like for writers of faith? How will they fare in the future?
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of writers, artists, filmmakers, and musicians: At a time in human history when religious faith is called not only out-of-date but malignant, why do you believe?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 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.