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Joanne Nelson mindfully considers the intersection of meditation and her morning cup of coffee.

Caroline Stowell learns the difference between loving and converting.

Adam Joyce reviews Stanley Hauerwas’s new book, The Work of Theology, looking at what it can teach us about the use of the essay as a form of theological reflection.

Jason Byassee examines fatherhood, mortality, resurrection, and the hope of a good surf.

Paul Jaussen reviews Žižek and Milbank’s THE MONSTROSITY OF CHRIST.

In Part I of this interview, Gregory Wolfe discusses beauty, and in Part II he continues this discussion, riffing on the history of IMAGE journal and the importance of sleeping well.

In Part I of this interview, Gregory Wolfe discusses beauty, and in Part II he continues this discussion, riffing on the history of IMAGE journal and the importance of sleeping well.

In this lyrical essay, Jessie van Eerden reflects on her upbringing in a rural West Virginia church and wonders “if the words of our childhood faith-lives—words like worship, praise, holiness—have any real clout for us when we really stare them in the face as adults and when, out of the corner of our eyes, we see more and more brokenness in the world.”

In this creative nonfiction piece, a woman recycles her dead lover’s computer and discovers the difficulty of letting go.