How a Five Year Old Took Five Minutes To Make a Difference

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In Cedar Hills, Texas, a five-year-old girl took a stand for her faith. While eating in a restaurant with her father, she saw two police officers and approached their table. She asked if she could pray for them. According to her father’s Facebook post, the two say that they have “never had anyone pray with them and that her prayer …

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Poetry Friday: Four Sonnets

Sonnets meditating on illuminated manuscripts of the Middle Ages may sound a bit sanctimonious, even borderline pompous, but like all the best sonnets, Melissa Range’s subvert expectations. The sonnets, each named for a pigment monks used to color the manuscripts, explore the seedy underbelly of each pigment. For starters, they are all highly toxic. Also, kermes-red [Read More...]

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Just THINKING About Marriage Inspires More Responsibility in Young Adults

Sociologically, we know that marriage, itself, socializes people.  For instance, very few violent crimes are  committed by married men as opposed to single or cohabiting men.   It turns out, however, that new research shows that even the thought that “I want to be married in the next five years” inspires greater responsibility and maturing [Read More...]

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A Different Kind of Fatherhood for All Men?

A guest blog by Pastoral Solutions Institute pastoral counseling associate, Dave McClow, M.Div., LISW, LMFT. The Ultimate Challenge, at least in this column, is about men and faith.  But today I will use an example of a fictional female character to illustrate a different kind of fatherhood. C.S. Lewis’ The Great Divorce tells the story of a [Read More...]

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Against “Amazing Grace”

In a world in which it seems that just about everything seems to be complained about online—bitch, bitch, bitch, moan, moan, moan—ad infinitum, here’s a little beef I’d like to proffer, that I don’t recall having seen anywhere yet: I despise “Amazing Grace.” Mind you, I’m not complaining about the notion of grace itself, God’s [Read More...]

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Why Most Bad Parenting Advice Begins with “But My Pediatrician Said…”

Let me say up front, this is NOT an article bashing the medical professions in general, or pediatricians, in particular.  I LOVE physicians.  I LOVE pediatricians ESPECIALLY.  They do tremendous (and often thankless) work.  Contrary to a lot of stupid opinions on the internet, when it comes to treating sick children, there is no one [Read More...]

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Dispatch from Detroit

We are living in a world that is absolutely transparent, and God is shining through it all the time… —Thomas Merton There were young men out in the streets of Hamtramck blowing things up last night. God knows what they’d gotten their hands on. Could have been small sticks of dynamite for the blast it [Read More...]

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From the Engine Room, Part II: Mountains of Time

By Mary Kenagy Mitchell Continued from yesterday.  Up until this point, in describing what it’s like to read Image’s unsolicited manuscripts, I have not said much that an editor at any journal might not say, but of course, Image is not any journal. “Art, faith, mystery” is on our masthead—and we have a long history [Read More...]

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What’s Up With All Those Catholic “Rules” About Marriage?

My latest for OSV Newsweekly… I recently received the following question about the Church’s requirements for weddings and marriages: “My girlfriend is a Protestant, and her mother recently asked her a question that I haven’t been able to find much information on. She asked, ‘Why can’t a Protestant and a Catholic have a Protestant marriage [Read More...]

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From the Engine Room, Part I: The Problem with Efficiency

By Mary Kenagy Mitchell About a year ago we at Image dragged ourselves into the twentieth century and started accepting unsolicited submissions online. We had held off partly because we were worried that the numbers would balloon—and the amount of work we receive did immediately triple. (We’ve added another reader to help us keep up, [Read More...]

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5 Ways Spiritual Direction Can Change YOUR Life

A guest blog by Deacon Dominic Cerrato, Ph.D., Director of the Pastoral Solutions Institute’s Spiritual Direction Program. Traditionally, spiritual direction was most closely associated with clergy and religious as part of growth in the interior life. Throughout the history of the Church, few lay people received formal spiritual direction relying instead on the confessional and [Read More...]

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Presidential Poll Reversals / Likely Voters

Original title: “Past Presidential Polls Mid-Race and Contrary Outcome in November” John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon taken prior to their first debate at WBBM-TV in Chicago: 26 September 1960 (Asociated Press) [public domain / Wikimedia Commons] ***** [I originally posted this about a month ago (6-24-16) on my Facebook page. Presently I will simply add [Read More...]

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Catholic “Trump Wars” & Civil Discourse

Photograph from Pexels.com [CC0 license; free for any use with no attribution] ***** [the initial impetus for this article came from learning about a friend who opposes Trump, who expressed that she had been deeply hurt by friends] There is plenty of vitriol on both sides. No one has a monopoly on it. We need to condemn [Read More...]

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Poetry Friday: “Sometimes I Am Permitted”

On my first reading of this poem, I felt disoriented by all the non sequiturs, all the disconnected images leaping here and there. But then I thought: isn’t this how my own attention works (or doesn’t work)? The poem skips in a breath from winter snow to the red line train to the speaker’s sins [Read More...]

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My Money, My Life

My money is the Tao te Ching, translated and introduced by David Hinton. My $12.87 turned into this teaching: Once it’s full of jade and gold your house will never be safe. Proud of wealth and renown you bring on your own ruin. (#9) My money is a boarding pass for American Airlines flight 5469 [Read More...]

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Twice As Much Sex Makes Relationships About Half As Good.

Sorry, guys. CARNEGIE MELLON RESEARCHERS FIND MORE SEX DOESN’T LEAD TO INCREASED HAPPINESS By Shilo Rea Countless research and self-help books claim that having more sex will lead to increased happiness, based on the common finding that those having more sex are also happier. However, there are many reasons why one might observe this positive [Read More...]

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Why We Write

What is it about words that so moves those of us who are writers? We take the most common of media—language—and can’t resist caressing it, playing with it, taking it apart and putting it together again in some new shape. Why do I love to write, even need to write? I’ve been pondering this question [Read More...]

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Risen

In a well-written and well-acted scene from Kevin Reynolds and Paul Aiello’s recent film, Risen, the Roman tribune, Clavius (played by Joseph Fiennes), questions one of the guards left to watch the tomb of the crucified Jesus. The guard, drunk in his cups, has been pardoned by the prefect, Pontius Pilate. Clavius knows that the [Read More...]

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Got Spiritual Direction? New Service Makes Catholic Spiritual Direction Available to Everyone.

You don’t have to be a saint to want to draw closer to God or have more confidence in what he wants for your life. Spiritual direction is an important ministry that helps people at every stage of the spiritual walk draw closer to God and have more confidence in his will for their lives. [Read More...]

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Some Questions about Politics and the Imagination

The following appears as the editorial statement in Image issue 89. Q. Would you mind if I asked you some questions the current political situation, given the upcoming presidential election and turmoil in Europe? A. I do mind, as a matter of fact. I have nothing to say about such matters. They’re far too complex. [Read More...]

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Poetry Friday: “I Am Poured Out Like Water”

What attracts me to this poem is something deliberately absent yet evocatively present: baptism in a river. Starting from the very first line—during monastic prayer, the speaker’s mis-chanting “Lord’s forever” as “Lord’s river”—rivers are central to each vignette. There’s the creek where, as a kid, the speaker “took a girl down to the river to [Read More...]

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C.S. Lewis, Less the Magical

I first encountered C.S. Lewis in Mere Christianity, then quickly consumed The Screwtape Letters, The Great Divorce, and The Abolition of Man before feeling like we’d hit a good place in our relationship. I tend to be cautious like that with authors. I don’t want to lose the (perhaps childish) affection that first obsessed me. [Read More...]

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Antidepressants for a Bad Marriage Yield Depressing Results.

New research shows that doctors regularly diagnose patients as “depressed” when they complain about marital and relationship problems.  The problem is, being sad about a bad marriage isn’t depression, and anti-depressants can’t treat marital woes. From PsychCentral New research finds that psychiatrists nearly always respond with prescriptions for antidepressants when clients complain of bad marriages. The medical [Read More...]

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The Cult of Emotion

As a newish, struggling Christian recovering from two years in a fundamentalist youth group, I committed to starting afresh in college. I was going to get fellowship right this time. My high school church had been all about the rules: No secular music (unless oldies from the 1950s). No shorts with hems higher than the [Read More...]

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Parents vs. iPhone: A Problem of Liturgy?

A guest blog by Pastoral Solutions Institute clinical counseling associate, Dave McClow, M.Div., LMFT, LISW. A 13-year-old boy, Peter, was anxious, even compulsive, melting down whenever his parents asked something of him, especially to get off his iPhone or iPad and re-engage in the human race–specifically, his family life.  I know this is not extremely uncommon.  I [Read More...]

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When Daddy Doesn’t Go To Church….

I was honored to be asked for input on a terrific article by Marisa Sandora at For Her on this painful topic.  Here’s a sample. So how can those of us in this situation try to convince our non-practicing spouse to attend church services? “The same way we get our spouse to do anything,” says [Read More...]

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Eat the Delicious Earth

A year ago, I started cooking and learning how to prepare and love food in new ways. How to spend time with it, think about how it comes apart and together, how it draws lines back to heritage and times when I loved my insides, when love had all kinds of ungraspable meanings. I’m lucky [Read More...]

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Gotta Dance

My mother was a dancer. I use the term dancer in the most flexible possible way, to mean: “One who dances.” She said that she had always wished to be a ballerina—an image that didn’t compute with my childhood understanding of my mother, a labor room nurse who played racquetball at the YMCA, and otherwise [Read More...]

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Poetry Friday: “Again to Port Soderick”

To behold God’s creation and to praise it with language is this poem—and it is also the poem’s subject. For what is God’s creation to the devoted poet but a reminder that, as a piece of that creation, she herself is an instrument of God in service of love? To sense creation’s magnificence, to point [Read More...]

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New Study Finds, “More Church = Less Porn”

From PsychCentral. A new study finds that attendance of religious services by young people is associated with a reduction in viewing pornography over time. The study findings appear in the Journal of Adolescence. “We were able to determine that there is a barrier effect at play wherein religious social control encourages adolescents to view less pornography over [Read More...]

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The Vegan at Our Chicken Slaughter

A few years ago, we invited the newest neighbor in our rural intentional Christian community to help us slaughter the chickens we had raised for meat. Our neighbor told us about his guest up the hill; he was visiting from the city and he was a strict ethical vegan. Our neighbor warned his vegan friend, [Read More...]

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Undeniably God

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Sometimes, amazing things happen in your life. It is hard to accept that they are from God; we like to call them coincidences. It doesn’t matter if you have been searching for a job for a long time and the perfect job suddenly pops into your life. We like to boil it down to simple coincidences, nothing more. However, there …

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Boyhood and the Incarnation of Time

The hardest part of watching Boyhood for me wasn’t the film itself but going back to the main menu. You’ve just been immersed in this family’s life for twelve years, and now suddenly you see select moments of that life assembled together in a collage of stills as that soft, wistful song, “Hero,” plays: So [Read More...]

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Adam Zagajewski’s Trench Warfare

“Writing poems is a duel / that no one wins…” As I’m reading the poem that opens with these words, I think: this could be describing my life. The poem is called “Writing Poems.” It’s by the superb contemporary Polish poet Adam Zagajewski, in his new collection, Unseen Hand. And in fact, nearly all the [Read More...]

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Poetry Friday: “For Whom the Resurrection Is the Full Moon Rising” by Mark Wagenaar

This is a poem to stretch the mind. It begins by stretching our imagination to a cosmic event: a “moondog,” which is a rare bright spot in the moon’s halo. It’s formed by a “mirage of light & cloud & ice”—an image which then brings the speaker down to earth, into his own life. But [Read More...]

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Do You Talk About Your Faith?

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Are you proud to be a Christian? Do people know you are a Christian? Being a Christian is something to be proud of, not in a bad way, but it is not something you should hide. If you are hiding your faith, I must ask why? Oh, I have been there. I can be a conversation stopper. It can be …

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