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Homeless for the Holidays

By Ashley Makar | November 25, 2014

A palsied mouth, stammering to say these words matter.

Religious Baggage

By Ashley Makar | October 29, 2014

An excerpt from Ashley’s new e-book You Were Strangers: Dispatches from Exile

Sea Accounting

By Jennifer MacKenzie | July 15, 2014

Navigating fear, family, and Syria’s failing insurrection.

Fundies and Aspies

By Jonathan Kemmerer-Scovner | June 11, 2014

Ned Spodos has seen it from both sides.

Cloudy Coffee

By Dania Rajendra | May 27, 2014

Left out of Kannada conversation, I always recognize “coffee.”

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.

7 Habits of a Highly Effective Philosopher

By Nathan Schneider | July 12, 2013

Life lessons from the Christian apologist William Lane Craig.

"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.

Single Sister

By Kelly Wehrle | January 7, 2013

I wondered if she wanted to leave. If she asks me to drive her away, would I take her?

Strays

By Tarrah Krajnak | May 21, 2012

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

Farewell, Olympia

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford | March 5, 2012

I want to apologize to Republican Maine Senator Olympia Snowe, who announced last week that she will not seek re-election. Some time in the early 1990s, as a teenager growing…

Rev. Sekou preaching at KtB's Tin Anniversary Spectacular in 2010. Photo by Aslan Chalom.

Call Received

By Nathan Schneider | February 18, 2012

An interview with Rev. Osagyefo Uhuru Sekou.

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.

Blogging the Jameses

By J. C. Hallman | December 1, 2011

Reading the correspondence of Henry and William James, it’s surprising to see just how much of William’s will-to-believe doctrine and his ideas of the religiously “sick souled” appear, in nascent…

Festival of the Hungry Ghosts

By Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan | October 31, 2011

What to make when it’s your turn to feed a dead grandmother?

Family Tree

By Eric Scott | September 12, 2011

All in the Coven

Officer, I Can Explain

By Mary Valle | August 2, 2011

Even the law is telling me not to fuck things up.

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…

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