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Two costumed Israelites talk as the crowd gathers for the Hill Cumorah Pageant.

Hill Cumorah

Scenes from the annual pageant of Mormon origins.

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Fringes

A photo-essay around the edges of worship.

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Prayer Hands

Better than kitsch.

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A Tribute To Thanjavur

In South India, everyone’s paying homage to somebody.

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This Is How My Garden Grows

The Communicant’s urban victory.

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Dear Mr. Eggleston

When I hold your photograph, I’m looking at our car in the Sears parking lot in 1976, and time has collapsed.

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Strays

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

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What’s on Your Shelf?

Ogle each other’s objects of devotion.

The author on the subway.

Postcards from My Chastity Pledge

Hell is other people’s multi-faith neighborhoods.

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Send Us Photos: What’s on Your Shelf?

We know you’ve got ’em.

The monks and the fire.

Fire-walking at Mount Takao

Mount Takao is located in a western, wooded stretch of greater Tokyo. It is a prime destination to take in the seasons and escape the asphalt island that is the…

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Scuba Diving Beneath Hagia Sophia

At BLDGBLOG, an alluring post about the liquid underbelly of a historic building. While scuba diving beneath Hagia Sophia, an exploratory team led by filmmaker Goksel Gülensoy has “managed to…

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Transient Vapors

When I got home, when I got the camera, when I jumped out onto the fire escape to take a picture, it looked like this. This is all that was…

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African Purse-Sellers Praying the Salat

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Lessons by Lucas Foglia

Lessons

What can a Cambodian monk offer three kids from Liberia?