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For Christ Was Born in a Refugee Camp

By Ed Simon | December 19, 2019

An icon must be thought of as a divine portal in its own right, charged with the transcendent. That makes it all the more powerful when an icon explicitly condemns a contemporary injustice.

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The Untold Story of Our Savior

By Edith Vonnegut | January 5, 2018

Spoiler alert: He’s not an only child.

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Fascism and Art

By S. Brent Plate | April 26, 2017

The bombing of Guernica, and Picasso’s response, 80 years on.

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Fallen and Alone in Manchester

By Stephen Prothero | December 17, 2016

A new movie carries the world on its shoulders.

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Ahmed Mohamed and the Blessings of God

By Randy R. Potts | December 21, 2015

A day with the unlikely celebrity and his family.

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Fringes

By Venkat Srinivasan | March 16, 2015

A photo-essay around the edges of worship.

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Prayer Hands

By Jeff Sharlet | January 20, 2015

Better than kitsch.

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Meet Black Judaism

By Sam Kestenbaum | October 22, 2014

“This is not some sort of act. This is what we do.”

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The Rebbe

By Sam Kestenbaum | July 30, 2014

Scenes from an annual pilgrimage.

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Impossible without a body: a song, (breath), and dust

By Francesca Rendle-Short | January 7, 2014

An agnostic daughter redacts her creationist father’s work.

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This Is How My Garden Grows

By Mary Valle | May 28, 2013

The Communicant’s urban victory.

Beautiful Possibility Title Banner by Alison Pebworth (pictured: Olaudah Equiano, Tahcoloquoit (Sauk and Fox Chief), Olive Oatman)

Beautiful Possibility: An Interview With Alison Pebworth

By Nora Maynard | June 12, 2012

Got credit card debt? Schadenfreude? The shakes? Maybe it’s Americanitis.

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By Tarrah Krajnak | May 21, 2012

A Peruvian baby is adopted. 32 years later, she returns with her camera.

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American Idolatry

By Legacy Russell | October 24, 2011

A new exhibition puts pop culture fandom on white walls.

Ryoji Ikeda's "The Transfinite." Photo by James Ewing.

Oh, Infinite Stream of Data and Light

By Beatrice Marovich | June 15, 2011

Ryoji Ikeda’s sublime, mathematical awe-machine.

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Princess of the Underground

By Alexander Keefe | March 7, 2011

An oil heiress first finds art, then whirls into a Sufi space beyond religions.

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Isaiah

By Danica Novgorodoff | February 21, 2011

Prophesying in the borderlands.

"Nature's Paradise"

Let There Be (the Painter of) Light™

By Nicholas Laccetti | January 26, 2011

Doubting Thomas Kinkade.