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Steelers/Ravens Playoff Religion Update

By Mary Valle | January 16, 2011

This weekend’s Steelers/Ravens playoff game in Pittsburgh will feature more than the two teams, bitter rivals, representing formerly glorious postindustrial American cities. We will also witness the athletic feats of…

Killing the Buddha

You’re Being Way Too Patriarchal

By Mary Valle | November 4, 2009

At Hampshire College, in a Critical Approaches to European History class, one of my fellow women—we were not girls—raised her hand and complained that the class was too Eurocentric. Was…

Killing the Buddha

Muhammad and Mary, Up from Common Ground

By Ashley Makar | August 22, 2009

Today, as Muslims begin fasting for the month of Ramadan, Coptic (Egyptian) Orthodox Christians are breaking a fifteen-day fast for the Virgin Mary. This morning was a rare coincidence of…

Russian nun

Hands Across the Water

By Peter Manseau | March 30, 2009

A Russian nun and her impossible song, in an excerpt from Rag and Bone: A Journey Among the World’s Holy Dead.

Icon of Saint Simeon the One-Eyed Tanner

Wayward Sheep

By Ashley Makar | August 23, 2008

More schooled than churched, she wanted to try dying to the self, to grope for the Spirit under the water, and come up in grace. It was more awkward than that.