childhood

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Evangelical Anxiety

By Charles Marsh | September 28, 2017

We did not do therapy. “Psychoheresy,” some called it.

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Seeing Directly Through the Clouds

By Emily Ruth Mace | August 24, 2017

Chicago, Illinois.

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A Murderer and a Saint

By Laura Turner | August 3, 2015

Father Junipero Serra, the missions, and me.

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Seek

By Andrew Johnson | June 18, 2014

“Man’s best chance of finding God is to look in the place where he left him.” —Meister Eckhart

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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Your Belief Here

By Joelle Renstrom | October 22, 2013

The lack of God in Unitarianism was its saving grace for me.

by maorzo, via Flickr

Black Preacher at the Family Reunion

By Greg Bottoms | September 17, 2013

“Do it or I’ll cut your throat,” Kevin said. You thought about it, yelling the word and then running and it would all really just be a game.

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Paper Hearts

By Allison Jane Smith | August 22, 2013

I resent that it is necessary to clarify my religious beliefs before I will be invited for coffee.

"They said father didn't keep his Life Insurance paid up!"—advertisement for Prudential Insurance Company of America.

Truth-Telling in Vulgaria

By Nathan Schneider | May 9, 2013

Questions for Kathryn Joyce, who bursts the international Christian adoption bubble in her new book, The Child Catchers.

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Strays

By Tarrah Krajnak | May 21, 2012

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

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The Billboard of the Body

By Rollo Romig | February 22, 2012

What do you do when you have sucker written all over your forehead?

Wall of room in Ward Retreat 1 at St. Elizabeth's psychiatric hospital in Washington, D.C. Via the Otis Historical Archives National Museum of Health and Medicine.

A Message from Prison

By Greg Bottoms | January 24, 2012

When somebody just needs to disappear.

"shoot the bokeh (bokeh murder)" by horizontal.integration via Flickr.

Shoot

By Nathaniel Page | November 22, 2011

An exercise in recreational destruction.

H. P. Lovecraft. Image from The Los Angeles Times archives.

Dark Mysticism

By Scott Poole | November 2, 2011

H. P. Lovecraft as soulcraft.

'Samhain Altar' by Denise, via Flickr. Some rights reserved.

A is for Athame

By Eric Scott | October 27, 2011

A glossary of terms for dealing with witches.

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Religion: ___

By Mary Valle | July 21, 2011

Once July 15 passes, it’s all back-to-school displays in the megastores and reenrollment paperwork/digital forms/paying of tuition tout de suite. It still makes my stomach hurt. A friend just passed…

Detail of "Blood drainage," from the series "Sangre Menstrual" by gaelx, via Flickr.

Magic Menstrual Mummies

By Frank Schaeffer | May 23, 2011

A boy discovers that there are right and wrong kinds of blood.

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.