Skip to content

Log Out

×

Two Faiths, One God?

By Vic SizemoreMarch 9, 2012

In 1990 and 1991 I was a combat engineer with the 5th Marines, and we were part of the invasion of Iraq during Desert Storm. I saw the nifty new technology, the almost playful ways we had devised to murder one another, and a deep sadness sank into my heart. It felt a lot like…

Read More

This is Your Brain on Art

By Vic SizemoreJanuary 24, 2012

I went to a middle school dance the other night to watch my son’s band play the four songs they know. What I observed probably won’t surprise you. The boys at the dance reacted to the rock & roll. They jumped and wiggled—some even did what might be considered dancing—and ran and threw their bodies…

Read More

Tree of Life, Tree of Light

By Vic SizemoreDecember 30, 2011

Ever since Greg Wolfe started a Facebook thread about the movie, I’ve been thinking about Tree of Life—particularly the section depicting the birth of the universe. At first it appears to be a cinematic non-sequitur, and it seems also never to end. It does end, after almost twenty minutes away from the narrative. The big bang…

Read More

A Hero of the Soul

By Vic SizemoreNovember 17, 2011

Every year on 10 November friends from long ago wish me a happy birthday. The thing is: it isn’t my birthday. When I was eighteen I decided I was sick of everybody telling me what to do, so I decided to get free—so I joined the Marines. Ten November is the Marine Corps’ birthday. Every…

Read More

Choose Ye This Day Thy Paradox

By Vic SizemoreOctober 27, 2011

I am not overly interested in the so called battle between Science and Religion. I have my opinions, but my deep interest is elsewhere. It just seems to keep popping up around me lately. In response to my last post, Beth Bevis wrote that what she noticed was how “people need a sense of transcendence…

Read More

Happy and Unhappy Families

By Vic SizemoreSeptember 29, 2011

When Tolstoy says that happy families are all alike, what he means is that they are all alike in this one thing: they are boring, not worth writing about. Unhappy families. Now those are interesting. Last night my wife and I—and our two teenage boys and pre-teen girl—celebrated our third wedding anniversary. In these three…

Read More

Church for Husbands: What Music Means to Me

By Vic SizemoreAugust 15, 2011

Music might be the thing that in the end helps me keep my faith. I haven’t admitted this to my wife or kids, because I’ve made it abundantly clear that I don’t like the TV show Glee. I really don’t like it; most of the time it annoys the hell out of me. However, we…

Read More

Among the Train Hoppers

By Vic SizemoreJuly 27, 2011

I drink with train hoppers. I seek them out, hang with them. My wife is fine with it. She accepts my fascination with them, even if she doesn’t fully understand it. Here in Lynchburg, Virginia, in among the train hoppers is where I find the gang I’m looking for: a cluster of former Liberty University…

Read More

Receive ImageUpdate, our free weekly newsletter featuring the best from Image and the world of arts & faith

* indicates required