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From the frontlines

Two costumed Israelites talk as the crowd gathers for the Hill Cumorah Pageant.

Hill Cumorah

By Sam Kestenbaum | August 4, 2016

Scenes from the annual pageant of Mormon origins.

Photograph by the author.

Silver Bells

By Emily Ruth Mace | December 14, 2015

Reading The Polar Express in the wake of mass shootings.

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Gods With Wet Noses

By S. Brent Plate | November 3, 2015

We are human because they are dog.

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Praying with Refugees

By Ashley Makar | September 18, 2015

A sermon preached at Trinity on the Green, August 23, 2015

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Showering in Eden

By Emily Ruth Mace | May 21, 2015

A transparent eyeball in the Panama jungle.

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Crocodile Prayers

By Elizabeth Harper | May 14, 2015

A reptilian pilgrimage in Spain.

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Religious Baggage

By Ashley Makar | October 29, 2014

An excerpt from Ashley’s new e-book You Were Strangers: Dispatches from Exile

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Sea Accounting

By Jennifer Mackenzie | July 15, 2014

Navigating fear, family, and Syria’s failing insurrection.

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Sikh And Ye Shall Find

By Kristin Vukovic | May 23, 2014

A visit to Amritsar’s Golden Temple.

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A Tribute To Thanjavur

By Venkat Srinivasan | May 6, 2014

In South India, everyone’s paying homage to somebody.

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Immersion Therapy

By Allison Jane Smith | April 2, 2014

A second, Cambodian baptism.

Kids in front of gas flare in Niger Delta, 2007 (© Elaine Gilligan)

A Series of Small Leaps

By Jessica Wilbanks | February 11, 2014

Writing about witchcraft, children, and desperation in the Niger Delta.

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Christmas in Cambodia

By Allison Jane Smith | December 17, 2013

Advent is not just about chocolate calendars.

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Baseball Mundi

By Alex Tzelnic | December 3, 2013

Mircea Eliade goes to Wrigley Field.

Photo by Sam Kestenbaum

Dream Palace of the Revolution

By Sam Kestenbaum | October 29, 2013

How will Yemen’s sacred places of protest be remembered?

Photo by Verónica Capriglioni.

Over the Rainbow

By Nicole Greenfield | October 8, 2013

Gay Argentinians’ views on marriage, legal or not, are still shaped by forces beyond their control.

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Paper Hearts

By Allison Jane Smith | August 22, 2013

I resent that it is necessary to clarify my religious beliefs before I will be invited for coffee.

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Yemen, Starting Over

By Sam Kestenbaum | May 2, 2013

Shem begins working again, laying the foundations for the city that today we call Sana’a.