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My favorite music reviewer/columnist Andy Whitman writes about other things too, with just as much passion and insight. (more…)

Think for a moment about the short list of films usually recommended in Christian media.

If you do that, you will probably be surprised — nay, thunderstruck — at the list of the Top 100 movies as voted on by many who spend their days pondering the intersection of art and faith. Yes, Image has just announced the latest, greatest edition of the Arts and Faith Top 100 Films!

You’ll be boggled by what made the list. You’ll be even more surprised at what didn’t… (more…)

That’s my question in my latest article at Image’s Good Letters blog. (more…)

I’ve been following Laura Bramon Good’s writing since she spent some time at SPU as the year’s Milton Fellow, leading the Milton Center writers’ group. She’s an excellent writer with a big heart, and I love her contributions to the Good Letters blog at Image.

This week, she’s written on the new Soderbergh film, The Girlfriend Experience. Here’s an excerpt:

I’ve seen The Girlfriend Experience twice: once, under the guise of professional development for my anti-human trafficking day-job, and again, because I was eager to show Ben something that I thought had real worth in the larger conversation about the economy of sex.
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I haven’t seen Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stalker. That’s something I must rectify soon, especially since Tarkovsky’s Mirror, Andrei Rublev, and The Sacrifice are among the most memorable films I’ve seen in the last two decades.

Here’s Gregory Wolfe reflecting on Stalker, and what it has to do with his ongoing work with Image journal.

All in one issue.

You’ll get this 20th Anniversary Issue of Image free when you subscribe: here.

Come join the fun, the inspiration, the awe…

Anne and I will be visiting the Glen Workshop for the fifth summer in a row. It’s our favorite week of the year. We call it a “sneak preview of heaven.”

And just look at the list of intriguing special guests who will be teaching workshops…

• Andy Crouch
• B.H. Fairchild
• Marilyn Nelson
• Valerie Sayers
• Lauren Winner
• Mark St. Germain
• Lynn Aldrich
• Joel Sheesley
• Barry Moser
• Over the Rhine
• Debbie Blue

And let us not forget: A meeting of The Thomas Parker Society.