Beauty Will Save the World is Out!!!
A selection of GW's essays on literature, culture, faith, and the arts, published over a nearly thirty-year span, has just been published by ISI Books.
Please purchase it from IMAGE here.
Sacred Passion Nominated for Book of the Year Award
The second edition of Sacred Passion: The Art of William Schickel, published by University of Notre Dame Press, has been nominated for ForeWord Reviews' Book of the Year Awards in the Art category.
See all the nominees here. Order the book here.
GW Featured in Seattle Times Article
On Easter Sunday, 2011, "Pacific Northwest," the magazine of the Seattle Times, ran a cover story about various individuals and organizations working in the area of faith and the arts. GW is quoted extensively.
Read the article here.
Follow GW on Twitter
You can now follow Gregory Wolfe on Twitter. http://twitter.com/Gregory_Wolfe
GW Featured in Christianity Today
Lauren Winner wrote a feature about IMAGE and GW in the March, 2010 issue of Christianity Today: "Art for God's Sake."
Read the article here.
Bearing the Mystery: Twenty Years of IMAGE
Now available, Bearing the Mystery brings together in one handsome volume the best fiction, poetry, essays, and visual art from Image’s first twenty years — the work of nearly seventy writers and twenty visual artists (represented in sixteen glorious color plates). With a special introduction that meditates on the journal’s mission, Bearing the Mystery is indeed a treasure-hoard and a "volume to a be treasured.".
You can order it here.
GW Blogging at dotCommonweal
I have just joined the group blog for Commonweal magazine, Commonweal is one of America's leading Catholic magazines, having been around for 70 years and published such dudes and dudettes as Evelyn Waugh, Jacques Maritain, Dorothy Day, Graham Greene, Thomas Merton, and G.K. Chesterton.
Go to dotCommonweal here.
National Catholic Reporter Profile
Erin Ryan at the National Catholic Reporter has written a graceful profile of Yours Truly, with some interesting background information about the history of Image journal.
You can read the piece here.
The Image Website...and Blog, "Good Letters."
The Image website is a great place to find out what I'm up to. There are tons of user-friendly features on the site, including the ability to print, share, comment on, and e-mail dozens of web pages, articles, etc. One of the most exciting new features of the site is our new blog, "Good Letters." We hope you'll visit soon.
Our home page:
Read a guide to the site here:
http://imagejournal.org/imageupdate/139_080201.htm
Go to our blog, "Good Letters," here:
http://imagejournal.org/page/blog/
God With Us: Rediscovering the Meaning of Christmas
God With Us: Rediscovering the Meaning of Christmas, is a book I co-edited with Greg Pennoyer. It is a collection of daily meditations for Advent, Christmas and Epiphany. Contributors to God With Us include Scott Cairns, Emilie Griffin, Richard John Neuhaus, Kathleen Norris, Eugene Peterson, and Luci Shaw. Their words are enhanced by dozens of classic and contemporary art masterpieces carefully selected by the editors, Gregory Wolfe and Greg Pennoyer.
To purchase the book, click here.
For an interesting article about the book in Canada's National Post, click here.
Image's Glen Workshop Featured on PBS: Religion and Ethics Newsweekly
Image and the Glen Workshop were featured on a broadcast of Religion and Ethics Newsweekly, a national public television program produced by WNET Television in New York. The segment was recorded at our recent Glen Workshop, which was centered on the theme—“God of the Desert: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam through the Prism of Art.” I was interviewed for the piece, which turned out well.
View the segment.
Facebooked
I succumbed to temptation when a friend of my created a "group" for Image on Facebook and signed up for this "social networking utility" or whatever the heck it is. Is this a fad or the wave of the future?
My page is here. The Image group is here. And the Image "Cause" is here.
The Art on This Site
I just want to say thanks again to the visual artists who have contributed work to this site. Learn more about them: