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For Christ Was Born in a Refugee Camp

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.

A pair of doves born in our courtyard recently unearthed documents that prove beyond a shadow of a doubt...

The Untold Story of Our Savior

Spoiler alert: He’s not an only child.

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Fascism and Art

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

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Fallen and Alone in Manchester

A new movie carries the world on its shoulders.

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Ahmed Mohamed and the Blessings of God

A day with the unlikely celebrity and his family.

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Fringes

A photo-essay around the edges of worship.

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Prayer Hands

Better than kitsch.

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Meet Black Judaism

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

By Sam Kestenbaum

The Rebbe

Scenes from an annual pilgrimage.

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

An agnostic daughter redacts her creationist father’s work.

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This Is How My Garden Grows

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

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

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Strays

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

CHERYL, CHERYL: FRITE OF SPRING, video still, 2010.

American Idolatry

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

Ryoji Ikeda’s sublime, mathematical awe-machine.

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Princess of the Underground

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

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Isaiah

Prophesying in the borderlands.

"Nature's Paradise"

Let There Be (the Painter of) Light™

Doubting Thomas Kinkade.