Picturing Vaccination Reluctance Among Conservative Christians
Vaccination reluctance in these small Appalachian towns is less a matter of politics or social responsibility than a complex conflict with faith.
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The Cult Of Trump In Its Last Throes
In the assault on the Capitol, the distinction between faith, nation, and godhead finally and completely broke down.
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Drive-Up Confession and other Pandemic Improvisations
The drive-up church confession is just one of the creative adaptions being made on the fly as the coronovirus upsets the familiar rituals of life.
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Religious Persecution Survivors on the Oval Stage
We examine the political agenda behind President Trump’s Oval Office meeting with 27 survivors of religious persecution from around the world.
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Trump’s Christmas Offensive
Trump spent the whole month on a relentless crusade to remind everyone "Season's Greetings" was somehow sacrilegious. But did anyone care?
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Salam 9/11
The photo was taken in 2011, on the 10th anniversary of 9/11. It seems even more relevant now.
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On That Stunning Tefillin Photo and the Marks that Remain
The verses inside the tefillin represent an eternal relationship that has already spanned thousands of years. Skin operates on a much shorter, mortal calendar.
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Making Faith Visible: Picturing the Spiritual through the Ultimate Anguish
It's hard to visually convey faith or spirituality, especially through the ultimate anguish. That's what's so moving, and accomplished, about Lisa Krantz's images.
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Mapplethorpe to Stonewall: the Orlando Massacre Over the Course of Sunday
Tracking the visual reactions to the horrific Orlando massacre on Twitter over the course of the day Sunday.
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On Obama’s First Presidential Visit to a U.S. Mosque
Are we to commend Obama for the photo and his first visit in office to a U.S. mosque? Or, should he be faulted for taking so long?
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It’s Gucci Meets Starbucks, by God
Our stealth photo of the week. Truly, no one sees this church in the mirror?
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On that Perfectly Real Photo of “Trump and the Muslim Girl”
These photos undermine Trump’s logic at the same time that they elevate domestic (Muslim) American life. In other words, Trump gets trolled.
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On the Planned Parenthood Shooter Mugshot and Today’s News Portrait
If only the tendency to treat every face like a story led to real evidence.
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Who’s French Now? The Most Political, and Poignant Aftermath Photos from the Paris Attack.
If the attack changed the way France sees its Muslims, its foreign born and even non-whites, how did that inform the immediate imagery?
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Hippie Bashing: New Photos at TIME Keep New Age on the Fringe
Perhaps a threat to consumer culture, these new photos at TIME ridicule yoga, mediation and spiritual practices, framing them as still somehow “far out."
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On that Photo of the Pope and a Prisoner Holding Hands in Philadelphia
Condensing his visit to one powerful scene, the photo captures Pope Francis's challenge to America and its uncompromising political class to reach out.
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The Pope’s US Trip as it Touched on Race
Although the Pope typically addresses injustice in the context of class, his concern over racial strife was implicit in those key quotations from MLK.
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The Pope’s Congressional Override
What was straight out of a parallel universe was the way our senior legislators, the polarized of the polarized, reacted to the Pope's confrontation in a completely apolitical way.
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