faith

Gibson's Reverend Hess: "I will not waste one more minute of my life on prayer!"

Signs of the Father

Has God been reduced to cinematic sleights-of-hand?

In the running in Manhattan.

Sects and the City, Part 3

If you can make it there, you’ll make it anywhere: Love in a time of grim reality.

Caravaggio: The Sacrifice of Isaac (Detail)

Bunnies, Ducks, and One Great Dane

How Kierkegaard stole my faith.

The World Trade Center, September 11, 2001

The Beginning, or the End?

After 9-11, nothing will be the same — including one mother’s faith.

The author and his mother, 1975

The Many Times My Mother Died

If the body is a temple, what happens to faith when it’s destroyed?

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Save Me Somebody: Bruce Springsteen’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Covenant

The Boss will take you to the river if you help him get there.

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Winter of My Disbelief

Baptized in the blood of the lamb, the author smells only the sweet scent of chlorine.

"Untitled" by Jeremy Brothers for KtB

Resisting the Invitation

So you’ve asked Christ into your heart… What if he has other plans?

"Morning's Glory," by Heather Longprè

The Unbearable Lightness of Seeking

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

Shoah Memorial,  Jerusalem

The Hazards of Holocaust Theology

Transcending history is a tricky business, even for Elie Wiesel.

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Zen Mind, Alkie Mind

Lust, Liquor, and Bill W.’s Elegant American Buddhism.