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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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Accidental Gods

By Anna Della Subin | May 8, 2012

“…it is impossible for human nature not always to love something.”

Screening Room.

Mobilize and Contemplate

By Nathan Schneider | June 6, 2011

What’s spiritually at stake in The Tree of Life?

Courtesy of the internet meme.

Cutting It Out

By Hillary White | November 29, 2010

Watching movies with Mormons.

Killing the Buddha

“The famous, as we know, are nuts.”

By KtBniks | August 18, 2010

Read “moving” and can’t get enough of Eileen Myles? Wanna know how to honor a dead poet and how to get hate mail that persists for a quarter century? (HINT:…

God may not have appeared to Mother Theresa, but He needs to promote His book.

“Jesus” for Sale

By Becky Garrison | August 5, 2010

Cutting the Christian cheese at Book Expo America.

The Sagemont Church cross.

Everything Will Fall into Place

By Clint Rainey | April 5, 2010

Remaking Houston, one giant cross at a time.

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Heresy Is a Cradle

By Arthur Goldwag | February 22, 2010

Anne Hutchinson’s “No in Thunder.”

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Jesus Is Just Alright

By Mark Dery | July 9, 2009

A crack in Kevlar cynicism reveals a time of tripped out mysterium tremendum in Southern California. A new excerpt from the new KtB collection, Believer, Beware.

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The Apocalypse is Always Now

By Jeff Sharlet | June 29, 2009

The introduction to Believer, Beware: First-Person Dispatches from the Margins of Faith.

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Devotion Commotion

By Rebecca Katherine Hirsch | April 4, 2009

The ambivalent state of the acolyte.

Mansur al-Hallaj hanged and stoned.

How to Make a Martyr

By Martyn Oliver | February 24, 2007

When a death becomes larger than life, memory hangs in the balance.

Bible Porn

Bible Porn

By Erik Hanson | August 14, 2004

Sometimes corrupting children is a religious duty.

"Adam and Eve Temptation 1," Oleg Maslov & Viktor Kouznetsov

Genesis, At Rest

By Steve Almond | June 25, 2004

When Adam and Eve fall, they fall hard.

"What makes this night different from every other night?"

Sabbath Queen

By Scott Korb | May 11, 2004

On Friday nights, God likes to watch.

Another heresy goes up in smoke

Burn This Book

By Anders Zabotinsky | November 13, 2003

Melvin Jules Bukiet is the worst writer alive.

Behind the Pulpit

Behind the Pulpit

By Daniel S. Brenner | May 2, 2003

“Are you talking to me?” and other tough-love questions from the Church.

“You will not wear upon yourself a garment made of two different kinds of materials.” -- Leviticus

Stripes

By Elizabeth Frankenberger | December 23, 2002

Don’t blame Gap ads for the current trend in fashion. A look at the history of the Devil’s vogue.