sinners and saints

Sinners and saints

Clarence Schmidt. Photo by David E. Johnson, via Flickr.

Mountainous Harmony and Everlasting Peace

By Greg Bottoms | June 30, 2011

Great art meets faulty wiring.

Harold Camping.

The Man Behind Judgment Day

By D. T. Brown | May 18, 2011

An interview with Harold Camping, predictor of the end of the world.

Tom Evans. Photo by author.

Dead-End Job

By Ted Cox | May 16, 2011

Meet the publicist for the May 21st apocalypse.

Geraldo Alfonso collage, from Gray Art and Raw Vision.

Ghosts in the Mirrors

By Greg Bottoms | March 30, 2011

The making of a Santero artist as an old man.

"Burning Man 2009" by Mindaugas Danys, via Flickr.

Castles Made of Sand

By Becky Garrison | March 4, 2011

Some pointed questions about Burning Man for Steven T. Jones.

Richard Smith as Henry David Thoreau. Photograph by Maria Lewis.

Becoming Thoreau

By Beatrice Marovich | October 25, 2010

A living historian’s peculiar communion at Walden Pond.

Jay Bakker from a Kenneth Cole ad.

Happy Hour Gospel

By Joseph Huff-Hannon | August 11, 2010

The Bakkers’ son has a church of his own—in the back of a Brooklyn bar.

Eastern State Penitentiary, from the series "Abandoned Souls" by Ted Daniels. Click the image to see more.

Imagining Prisons

By Ashley Makar | July 26, 2010

From a Protestant monastery to the prison-industrial complex.

"Brain (Left)" and "Brain (Right)," © Don Stewart.

The Struggle for the (Possible) Soul of David Eagleman

By Robert Jensen | July 19, 2010

A neuroscientist imagines life beyond the brain.

"Each war is different, each war is the same," by kevindooley, via Flickr.

Vive la Différence

By Garrett Baer | June 7, 2010

Stephen Prothero on why all religions aren’t, deep down, all the same.

Photo courtesy of Heather Strait.

Hrafspa

By Eric Scott | May 17, 2010

On the 21st-century passing of a 12th-century bard.

wordle.net

Hoping for Option B

By Mark Dow | April 28, 2010

Two brothers talk about the death penalty, kayaking, and the reality of evil.

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No Utopias

By Robert Jensen | March 11, 2010

“Hope is a kind of religion, and religions don’t work.”

Image from Series Seating promotional materials.

Middle Ground with Jerry Falwell?

By Aaron Leonard | March 1, 2010

An interview With Gina Welch, author of In the Land of Believers.

"RIP J.D. Salinger" by cowicide, via Flickr.

Fluent in Silence

By Stephen Prothero | February 3, 2010

Was J.D. Salinger crazy—or just quiet?

Cornel West in Examined Life.

Cornel West: Truth

By Astra Taylor | November 15, 2009

A drive through Manhattan with a jazzman in the world of ideas crammed in the back seat.

Killing the Buddha

The Calling of Reverend Billy

By Nathan Schneider | October 28, 2009

Why in tarnation is a performance artist running for mayor of New York City?

Croissant de lune by Yann via Wikimedia Commons

Better Than a Thousand Months

By Ashley Makar | September 14, 2009

The holiest night of the year for a Nuyorican Muslim.