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An Epic in Three Words

  • Whittier Strong
  • September 30, 2014
“I am strong. Could I really have any other name?”
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The Satanic Children’s Big Book of Activities

  • Alex Norcia
  • September 19, 2014
After a judge ruled that religious pamphlets could be handed out in Orange County, Florida, the Satanic Temple, Salon reports, is responding with the dissemination of its own literature: The…
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The Rumpus Interview with Scott Cheshire

  • Phil Klay
  • September 8, 2014
High as the Horses' Bridles author Scott Cheshire discusses faith, apostasy, and apocalyse.
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The Eager

  • Jen Palmares Meadows
  • July 23, 2014
We were then young girls and our want was written on our skins. Between our legs and along our necks and wrists, our skin craved friction and more friction.
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Searching for Santería

  • Julia Cooke
  • June 26, 2014
Isnael felt spirits. That was how he first realized he had a calling, and that it was Santería.
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On Homosexuality and Wrestling with a Faith that Doesn’t Want You

  • Lyz Lenz
  • May 29, 2014
In Chelsea Station magazine, Brian Bouldrey writes about editing Wrestling with the Angel: Faith and Religion in the Lives of Gay Men, and about how he’s still wrestling with faith…
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What Happens When You Never Talk About Religion

  • Alex Norcia
  • May 22, 2014
In an interview with Jonathan Lee at The Paris Review, Joshua Ferris addresses why his new novel, To Rise Again at a Decent Hour, “starts from the question of whether…
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The Rumpus Interview with David Schickler

  • Win Bassett
  • December 5, 2013
Writer David Schickler talks about his memoir The Dark Path, the equal pulls of religion and sex, and why having a sense of humor matters.
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My Eyes Are Watching God

  • Rebecca Cook
  • December 3, 2013
In me there are many houses. In me there are many doors with glittering knobs. Around my waist is a cord full of keys.
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A Zealot and a Poet

  • Virginia Pye
  • May 14, 2013
I like to imagine him out there on his beast of burden, vast grey country on all sides and a book of poetry open in his hand. It is a romantic image and, when I think only of it, I can almost forget why he was there.
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Spit and Mud

  • Roxane Gay
  • February 12, 2013
What I remember most about church is all the sitting, standing, and kneeling, the stink of incense, the calm of the priest’s voice, the hard wooden pews, and not really…
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PK

  • Mary Mann
  • January 14, 2013
My dad smells like myrrh. My younger sister Madeline and I hide beneath his robes while he shakes parishioners’ hands at the back of the church. We think we’re hidden,…
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