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Issue #99 of Image, subtitled “Art • Faith • Mystery,” includes an essay by Katie Kresser suggesting that bizarre artistic images of Jesus across centuries can lead to a deeper, richer understanding the cosmic Christ.

It includes Sonya Bilocerkowycz’s meditations on the history of a renowned Ukrainian restaurant in the United States and how it evokes her deceased Ukrainian grandmother, with whom she spent time as a child growing up in South Dakota.

Two short fiction pieces published in Issue #99 follow protagonists who grow up in conservative religious subcultures and then abandon

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