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Two Poems by Joe Gross

By Joe Gross | April 22, 2022

Sometimes
multiplication
of loaves
just means
splitting
one loaf
between
two people.

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TransBible

By Erik Hanson | July 28, 2017

On Peter Toscano’s “Transfigurations: Transgressing Gender In the Bible”.

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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

In bloom peach tree orchard in western Colorado.

Belief

By Miriam Bird Greenberg | September 29, 2014

A drama in three vignettes.

Killing the Buddha

Cowboy for Christ

By Quince Mountain | January 14, 2014

Gender-bending love at Bible camp. From Believer, Beware, now available as an e-book!

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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.

"A poverty that would keep us free."

Beware of Christmas Stories

By Arthur Goldwag | December 10, 2012

Alternet has a sobering followup to the heartwarming story about the NY City policeman who gave the homeless man a pair of boots. As reported in the New York Times,…

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The Year of the Bi-i-ble

By Mary Valle | February 10, 2012

Good News! The Pennsylvania Legislature just declared 2012 the Year of the Bible.  Since they didn’t specify exactly which Bible, as in the “King James Bible Heritage Month” resolution from…

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Strangers In The Bible Belt and The Holy Land

By Ashley Makar | November 7, 2011

Immigration legislation in Alabama and Israel.

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Advocate

By Jeremy Kessler | October 17, 2011

New from Frequencies: William Stringfellow and the God of law school.

Coming out this August!

An American Eden, Dead on the Fourth of July

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford | July 4, 2011

Greetings, fellow Americans. I’d like to pay tribute to a little-known patriot who died on the fourth of July, 30 years ago. Although it’s not as exciting as being Born…

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.

Banned Questions about the Bible

Ban This, Bible!

By KtBniks | April 26, 2011

Buddha killer Becky Garrison is one of the dozen contributors to Banned Questions about the Bible, a book that discusses 50 questions your Sunday school teachers were afraid to answer.…

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A Refugee Passover in Israel

By Ashley Makar | April 25, 2011

From strangers in the land of Egypt to infiltrators in Zion.

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Lent: Season of Our Hypocrisy

By Ashley Makar | March 10, 2011

From to-do lists to angels in the wilderness.

The Holy Bible, King James style.

Richard Dawkins Loves the Bible

By KtBniks | December 30, 2010

Richard Dawkins, the supposedly angry New Atheist constantly accused of knowing nothing about the religion he rails against, couldn’t even wait until January 1st to celebrate the 400th anniversary of…

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Confessions of a Dead Sea Scrolls Groupie

By Becky Garrison | December 1, 2010

At the age of nine, I fell into a into a life of preteen crime by stealing Tiger Beats to feed my David Cassidy fix. After outgrowing The Partridge Family, I…