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Verse and song

"View down on Beacon Hill & Back Bay" by Werner Kunz via Flickr.

A Package Arrives

By Ray Hsu | November 21, 2010

“We just put it into a drawer, because we had enough to deal with.”

Mount Azazel by deror_avi

Azazel’s Home for Wayward Goats

By Lisa Levy | September 18, 2010

A Yom Kippur midrash.

"Tipner" by Mark Hooper via Flickr.

The Arrival

By Miriam Bird Greenberg | August 28, 2010

“The reeds we used to make our first bed bent easily…”

Photo by CS Muncy.

moving

By Eileen Myles | August 16, 2010

“People were getting auctioned up on stage but I didn’t see anything I wanted nor did I think I should be for sale.”

"будда 298" by frage23 via Flickr

Sermon Fire

By Adam Moorad | January 23, 2010

A cut-up/erasure of the Buddha’s Fire Sermon.

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Prayers the Gods Demand

By Miriam Bird Greenberg | December 20, 2009

For the winter solstice, the gods go betting.

Photo by _Olga_ on Flickr

We Knew Nothing Then

By Miriam Bird Greenberg | May 28, 2009

We knew nothing but that we must do as told, that no harm would come to us. We knew we were working towards peace, and we moved everyone off the…

By Gurumustuk Singh via Flicker

Devotion Commotion

By Rebecca Katherine Hirsch | April 4, 2009

The ambivalent state of the acolyte.

By artlog via Flickr

Ash Wednesday Already

By Ashley Makar | February 25, 2009

How’s a girl supposed to go about mourning in a world like this?

Killing the Buddha

God Saved the World

By Nathan Schneider | February 24, 2009

They’re not who you’d usually expect to meet at a monastery.

Photo by the author

Let All Who Mourn Now Rise

By Mark Dow | February 20, 2009

The art of making sounds one doesn’t understand.

"Confronted with the Gospel of John, I could not hide behind metaphor..."

Singing the Passion

By Sue Russell | March 23, 2005

A Jewish chorist tries to harmonize with the Gospel of John.

Legionella Bacterium

Grace

By Bia Lowe | March 21, 2005

A prayer before meals—those we eat, and those we are.

"What makes this night different from every other night?"

Sabbath Queen

By Scott Korb | May 11, 2004

On Friday nights, God likes to watch.

"And the sea stopped raging..." - From Pennyroyal Caxton Press Edition of the Holy Bible, Barry Moser, Illustrator

Thou Celestial Agency

By Rick Moody | February 6, 2004

A tempest-tossed excerpt from Killing the Buddha: A Heretic’s Bible.

"You sly universal virus with no fucking opinion..."

Prayer for You

By Rob Breznsy | January 2, 2002

How do you get God’s attention? Try sweet talking his girlfriend.

Angels

Hold the Fig Leaves

By Paula Elsloo | December 13, 2001

Of grumbling shepherds, forgotten fig leaves and God’s dirty veins.

"Morning's Glory," by Heather Longprè

The Unbearable Lightness of Seeking

By Cornel Bonca | April 30, 2001

In Allegra Goodman’s new novel, a hair-to-her-hips camp counselor gets religion, but never really gets it.