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A Decade Among the Mennonites

Avatar photo by Lauren Moya Ford November 29, 2022November 29, 2022

Larry Towell’s images reveal a little-seen, isolated world and raise questions about the unforgiving impact of tradition on families.

Posted inFilm

Arthur Jafa’s Medley of Joy Everlasting Versus Hell on Earth

Avatar photo by Justin Kamp March 23, 2022March 23, 2022

The video installation akingdoncomethas is an epic montage of sermons and performances from Black churches.

Posted inOpinion

What Happened to the Hagia Sophia Is a Terrible Shame

Avatar photo by Hakan Topal August 9, 2021August 9, 2021

I recently visited the Hagia Sophia for the first time after its conversion and felt overwhelming sadness.

Posted inArt

Mapping Jewish, Indigenous, and Spiritual Life in LA

Avatar photo by Elisa Wouk Almino January 20, 2021January 20, 2021

UCLA’s “Engaging Living Religion” will look at how religious beliefs are presented and explored in museum galleries.

Posted inArt

Material Messages Between Earth and the Divine

Avatar photo by Allison Meier December 27, 2018

Agents of Faith: Votive Objects in Time and Place at Bard Graduate Center Gallery in New York examines 4,000 years of votive offerings.

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A Photographer’s 16-Year Project to Capture the Contemporary Séance

Avatar photo by Allison Meier March 17, 2017March 20, 2017

Shannon Taggart started photographing the mediums of Lily Dale in 2001, and for 16 years after has documented the séances and practices of modern Spiritualism.

Posted inArt

The First Known Depiction of a Witch on a Broomstick

Avatar photo by Allison Meier October 24, 2016October 27, 2021

In the 15th century, the image of the witch flying on a broomstick first appeared, its meaning laden with sexual and spiritual depravity.

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A Black American Artist Explores Her Refusal of Christianity

Avatar photo by Seph Rodney May 18, 2016May 18, 2016

“Direct Downward Cut at the Head; Overhand Knife Thrust”; “and where the blood ran fastest, there he whipped”; “To them God has appeared as a Negro”; “syntactical slips and breaks” — these are a sample of the bits of text affixed to the walls in Kameelah Janan Rasheed’s On Refusal.

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Sacred Bones and the Catacomb Saint of Manhattan

Avatar photo by Allison Meier December 16, 2015December 21, 2015

Catholic churches in Europe host as many bones as a graveyard, with bits of saints and intact incorrupt bodies encased in glass and displayed on ornate altars.

Posted inArt

Praising the Scientific Contributions of Clergy Naturalists

Avatar photo by Allison Meier October 22, 2015October 22, 2015

Among the 18 million specimens in the oldest natural history museum in the United States are contributions from missionaries and ministers who practiced science alongside their faith.

Posted inNews

Oldest Fragment of Koran Found in UK Library

by Laura C. Mallonee July 22, 2015

A 1,370-year-old section of the Koran possibly dating back to the life of Mohammed has been discovered in central England.

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Sad News for Satanists: Oklahoma’s Ten Commandments Monument Must Go

Avatar photo by Allison Meier June 30, 2015July 22, 2015

Today the Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled that the granite Ten Commandments currently standing on the state capitol grounds must be removed.

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