faith

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

Signs of the Father

By Paul W. Morris | August 15, 2002

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

In the running in Manhattan.

Sects and the City, Part 3

By Elizabeth Frankenberger | April 23, 2002

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

By James Grimmelmann | January 30, 2002

How Kierkegaard stole my faith.

The World Trade Center, September 11, 2001

The Beginning, or the End?

By Molly Chilson | September 26, 2001

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

By Jeff Sharlet | August 6, 2001

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

By Cornel Bonca | July 29, 2001

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

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Winter of My Disbelief

By A. Wolf-Powers | July 12, 2001

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

By Sarah Stockton | May 23, 2001

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

By Cornel Bonca | April 30, 2001

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

By Peter Manseau | April 11, 2001

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

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Zen Mind, Alkie Mind

By Martha G. | February 9, 2001

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