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Two Poems by Joe Gross

By Joe Gross | April 22, 2022

Sometimes
multiplication
of loaves
just means
splitting
one loaf
between
two people.

Killing the Buddha

We’ve Got the Torch Now

By lepton | November 23, 2016

The small rural town where I went to high school had a newspaper and I looked on its classified section last year and there were three jobs.  I’m not going…

Kids in front of gas flare in Niger Delta, 2007 (© Elaine Gilligan)

A Series of Small Leaps

By Jessica Wilbanks | February 11, 2014

Writing about witchcraft, children, and desperation in the Niger Delta.

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Christmas in Cambodia

By Allison Jane Smith | December 17, 2013

Advent is not just about chocolate calendars.

"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.

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Getting the Christ Out of Christmas

By Ashley Makar | December 26, 2011

What would Jesus do with leftovers?

"Class War," a banner-drop in Oakland on November 2. By Nathan Jongewaard.

Fuck Your Prayer, Show Me Solidarity

By Kristin Rawls | December 15, 2011

A coming-out story in an age of predatory credit.

Photo by the authors.

The Other Protest

By Gordon Haber and Joshua Furst | August 25, 2011

Not all the marches in Israel this month ignored the occupation.

Photo by Meera Subramanian

Nothing But a Party

By Andrew Marantz | March 26, 2009

Welcome to New Orleans during Lent, the universe’s biggest buzzkill.

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Thieves

By Greg Bottoms | October 2, 2008

To be a lover and a car thief on a Saturday morn

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My Skyhawk Guardian Angel

By Toby Van Buren | July 1, 2008

What happens when Jesus is the victim of a hit and run?

"School is a fluid society… It can be no more than what we want it to be."

A Truancy Officer’s Tale

By Jeff Sharlet | January 18, 2003

Jesus says kids had better stay in school—or he’ll send Robert Milner to bust their asses.