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personal narratives

In the running in Manhattan.

Sects and the City, Part 3

By Elizabeth Frankenberger | April 23, 2002

If you can make it there, you’ll make it anywhere: Love in a time of grim reality.

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My Bar Mitsvah: A True Story

By Laurence Klavan | March 23, 2002

Today, he is a man. Tomorrow, he’s playing Vegas.

"Michael Jackson belted as The Gnu and I danced in perfect, uncoordinated rhythm."

Dancing Queen

By Irina Reyn | February 14, 2002

My first date was with the spiritual leader of 6th grade.

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Sects and the City, Part 2

By Elizabeth Frankenberger | February 3, 2002

Kosher sex and treyf love: Is dating just another way of mixing milk and meat?

Caravaggio: The Sacrifice of Isaac (Detail)

Bunnies, Ducks, and One Great Dane

By James Grimmelmann | January 30, 2002

How Kierkegaard stole my faith.

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Sects and the City, Part 1

By Elizabeth Frankenberger | January 28, 2002

Candace Bushnell meets Anne Frank in Sex and the City of God.

Poppa needs a new pair of shoes.

Holy Rollers

By Tara McCarthy | January 4, 2002

An after-Christmas story of dice, death, and love at the craps table.

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Vow to Bow

By Sumi Loundon | January 3, 2002

A New Year’s resolution to honor Buddha means good exercise for those who keep it — and bad karma for those who don’t.

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Waking Up

By Paul W. Morris | October 4, 2001

Zen and the art of running from a crumbling tower.

The World Trade Center, September 11, 2001

The Beginning, or the End?

By Molly Chilson | September 26, 2001

After 9-11, nothing will be the same — including one mother’s faith.

The author and his mother, 1975

The Many Times My Mother Died

By Jeff Sharlet | August 6, 2001

If the body is a temple, what happens to faith when it’s destroyed?

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God’s Big Hair

By Kathy Shaidle | July 20, 2001

Regarding the Father, Son and Dolly Parton.

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Winter of My Disbelief

By A. Wolf-Powers | July 12, 2001

Baptized in the blood of the lamb, the author smells only the sweet scent of chlorine.

"Hair 2001," by Jeremy Brothers for KtB

Among the Jesus Freaks

By Charles Marsh | July 7, 2001

Sit-in, pray-in, sing-in, and be-in with the son of a preacher man and a camp of Christian acidheads.