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Anna Vesta Rogers

Immersion Therapy

By Allison Jane Smith | April 2, 2014

A second, Cambodian baptism.

"I realized I could follow the progress of my fast by keeping an eye on the moon every night..."

Hunger Is God’s Food

By Jesse Maceo Vega-Frey | August 23, 2009

Praise the Lord and pass the leftovers—but not before the end of Ramadan.

"When they turn toward the ocean, I'm standing there, shoving another monk into the waves."

Pushing Monks

By Jeremy Richards | May 3, 2004

Lost at sea on a flotilla of enlightenment.

"It's Easter-time. They sell these at the drugstore."

Easter at the Jewish Ritual Bath, 1962

By Ilana Stanger-Ross | April 16, 2003

A tale of love, loss and submersion.

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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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.

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Rain from the Ganges

By Josh Valle | March 3, 2001

Fear and enlightenment at a Hindu goddess festival.