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The Image Podcast
by The Image Podcast
The Image Podcast brings you the best in all things Art, Faith, and Mystery. Tune in for conversations with our favorite writers and artists, along with book, film, and movie reviews. We'll also feature exclusive content from the pages of Image Journal, read out loud.
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The Spiritual Discipline of Inspiration: Carey Wallace
Carey Wallace is the author of The Blind Contessa's New Machine, which tells the story of the invention of the typewriter in 1808 by an Italian count for a blind woman so that she could write him letters. It’s a love story, but it’s also about the imagination and how it fails us. Patti Smith, one...
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Opening the Door: A Conversation with Abstract Painter Lanecia Rouse Tinsley
Lanecia Rouse Tinsley is an abstract artist based in Houston, Texas. She creates out of a desire to make the invisible landscapes within us known, using texture, form and color to speak to life in ways she feels words cannot. She says she is drawn to the “negative spaces” in life—times of…
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Keep Death in Halloween: A Conversation with Elizabeth Harper
Halloween kicks off the Octave of the Dead, eight days when Christians traditionally prayed for the souls of the departed. For this episode of the podcast I talked to Elizabeth Harper, whose essay, “The Cult of the Beheaded,” in Image 102, explores one culture’s particular history of praying with...
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Friendship and Faith at the Movies: A Conversation with Jeffrey Overstreet and Morgan Meis
On the importance of artistic and spiritual friendships to our work and faith, how both church and friendship have served to break us down and put us back together, and how our favorite films do that too: from Mike Leigh’s Another Year and the documentaries of French filmmaker Agnès Varda to The...
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Belief and the Body with Molly McCully Brown
Poet Molly McCully Brown’s prizewinning first collection, The Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded, is about a real, state-run residential hospital for people with serious mental and physical disabilities that was the epicenter of the American eugenics movement in the first half…
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Writing and Womaning Online with Tara Isabella Burton, Kaya Oakes, and Natasha Oladokun
Social media has given women writers more opportunities, more power, and more authority in the public sphere and also in the church. But there’s also enormous pressure from publishers to create your brand. To establish platforms of countless followers before you even publish a book. To live up...
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In This Here Place, We Flesh: Black Bodies in Art and Church
Black people are producing—have always produced—creative works of theology that must be seriously considered within the mainstream of Christian tradition if we are to dismantle white supremacy. The post In This Here Place, We Flesh: Black Bodies in Art and Church appeared first on Image Journal.
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Touching Eternity: A Conversation with Scott Cairns and Malcolm Guite
Malcolm Guite is a priest, poet, songwriter, and chaplain of Girton College, Cambridge. He’s also served as a chaplain at our Glen Workshops in Santa Fe. I came to know Guite’s work through the online community Sick Pilgrim, where his book, Sounding the Seasons, a collection of sonnets inspired…
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Faith, Justice, Beauty: Carolyn Forché’s Levertov Award Lecture
Image is a religious journal, but maybe not in the way you’d expect. Our executive editor, Mary Kenagy Mitchell, says that “we give voice to writers who are devout, or full of doubt. The grapplers, the joyful, the angry, the bereaved, the confused. The connecting thread is the effort to get...
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Mourning Faith: A Conversation with R.O. Kwon
In the novel The Incendiaries by R.O. Kwon, a young woman at an elite American university is drawn into a religious cult. Phoebe Lin is wealthy, beloved, popular, but she’s secretly overcome by grief. She doesn’t tell anyone she blames herself for her mother’s recent death. Over the course of the...
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Have Faith in Art: A Conversation with Aaron Rosen
Today’s conversation is with Image’s new visual arts editor, Aaron Rosen. Aaron is Professor of Religion & Visual Culture and Director of the Henry Luce III Center for the Arts & Religion at Wesley Theological Seminary. But he also generates and participates in conversations about religion and…
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Something to Push Against: A Conversation with Shane McCrae
When my guest, poet Shane McCrae, was in high school, he made what he calls a “serious existential commitment” to quit life. The child of a black father and a white mother, has was raised in part by his maternal grandparents, who were white supremacists and denied that he was black. By the… The...
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We Are All Small Things: A Conversation with Chigozie Obioma
Nigerian writer Chigozie Obioma has been hailed as the heir to Chinua Achebe. He was born into a family of 12 children in the southwestern part of Nigeria, where he grew up speaking Yoruba, Igbo, and English. His first novel, The Fishermen, published in 2015, was short-listed for the Man Booker...
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Why Do We Need the Arts? A Conversation with James K. A. Smith
We are best catechized by our senses. We learn from parables and fairy tales, stories with the same homespun elements in infinite arrangements that we come to know by heart. It’s why I so often say that it is art and story that drew me back to the practice of faith, not theology. “The… The post…
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The Monster Christ with Katie Kresser
I recently contributed a poem to a zine called Ethel. When the editor shared the cover art for the issue, it shocked the group of women in which it was shared–Christians, agnostics, churched and unchurched. The cover features a collage by artist Sara Lefsyk, in which an image of Mary as the…
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Episode 12: Inside The Flannery Issue
If you’ve been keeping up with us here at Image, you know that our fall issue featured the never-before-published college journal of Flannery O’Connor entitled “Higher Mathematics.” On a special episode of our podcast, Gregory Wolfe sits down with Mark Bosco, SJ, who was instrumental in the...
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Episode 11: The Art of Criticism with Alissa Wilkinson
Today’s podcast guest has many titles: staff film critic at Vox.com, associate professor of English and Humanities at The King’s College in New York City, published co-author, with Robert Joustra, of How to Survive the Apocalypse (Eerdmans), and a 2013 graduate of the Seattle Pacific University…
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Ep 10: Chasing the Language with Scott Cairns
“To be a poet, you have to write more than you know.” Scott Cairns engages with this idea throughout his interview with Image editor and founder Greg Wolfe, as the pair discuss language, meaning-making, and faith. A recipient of Image’s Denise Levertov award who has been published in our pages…
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Episode 9: Going Underground with Chris Hoke
“I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.” These words from the Book of Matthew are quoted often, but it’s rare to see someone living them out, and inviting the rest of us to join him. This week… The post Episode 9: Going...
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Episode 8: Carolyn Forché and the Poetry of Witness
At the Glen Workshop in August, Image editor Greg Wolfe recorded a nearly hour-long conversation with poet and social activist, Carolyn Forché. Hailed not only for her exquisite poetry but also for her work in promoting greater awareness of “the poetry of witness,” Forché is at once gentle and...
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Ep. 7: Paul Willis, Poet of the Wild
In today’s episode, Greg Wolfe sits down with poet, fantasy writer, and essayist Paul Willis to discuss his new poetry collection Getting to Gardisky Lake. Widely considered one of our best living nature writers, Willis is the former Poet Laureate of Santa Barbara, CA and a professor at Westmont...
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Ep. 6: Harrison Scott Key, The World’s Funniest Memoirist
Harrison Scott Key’s debut memoir “The World’s Largest Man,” is the winner of the 2016 Thurber Prize for American Humor. His wry, dead-pan prose has drawn comparisons to David Sedaris and Mark Twain, yet Key’s voice is entirely original. In today’s episode, he tells Gregory Wolfe about his path...
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Episode 3: Science, Faith, and Horse Racing
The Image Podcast welcomes Susanne Antonetta, whose award-winning non-fiction blends memoir, family history, spirituality, and deep scientific research. Here, she discusses topics like neuroscience and astrophysics with Gregory Wolfe, then Mary Kenagy Mitchell and Greg unpack C.E. Morgan’s horse...
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Episode 2: Gina Ochsner and the Power of Useless Art
Gina Ochsner, author of The Hidden Letters of Velta B. joins us to discuss the power of “childish” art forms like folk and fairy tales. Also, Greg Wolfe and Paul Anderson sit down to discuss Lincoln in the Bardo, George Saunders’s bizarre debut novel. The post Episode 2: Gina Ochsner and the…
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The Image Podcast: Richard Rodriguez
In the first episode of the Image Podcast, Gregory Wolfe sits down with celebrated essayist and journalist Richard Rodriguez, winner of a Peabody Award and author of Brown, Darling, and Hunger of Memory. Hosted by Paul Anderson, featuring music from Over The Rhine. The post The Image Podcast:...
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The Nightingale Floors
In Kyoto, Japan, seventeenth-century Nijo Castle contains an architectural feature meant to protect the ruling shogun. The floors in the inner most chambers are constructed in such a way that the nails rub together when trod upon, creating the acoustical effect of chirping birds. Known as...
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The Image Podcast brings you the best in all things Art, Faith, and Mystery. Tune in for conversations with our favorite writers and artists, along with book, film, and movie reviews. We'll also feature exclusive content from the pages of Image Journal, read out loud.
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