Features

Two, Four, Six, Eight—Where Is the Collection Plate?

A church converted from a sports stadium presents a powerful spectacle of devotion.
by michael joseph gross

Trying to Keep the Sabbath Wholly

For Orthodox Jews, observing Shabbat once meant retreating from the modern world. Now that design offers more ways to finesse the rules, is the rite being wronged?
by jon fasman

Your Friendly Neighborhood Mosque

Meet Singapore's international style of Islam.
by barbara flanagan

Raining on Evolution's Parade

How a famous illustration of Darwin's theory turned into a figure of fallacy (and fun).
by david barringer

All in Two Days' Work

Some would call it a miracle. Jehovah's Witnesses call it a quick-build.
by jake austen

A Place of Silence

Four proposals for the perfect meditative space.
compiled by monica khemsurov

Charmed

Believe in it or not, Icelandic folklore inspires some winsome designs.
by david sokol

Chick Lit

The twisted tale of an evangelical cartoonist who can't help identifying with the bad guys.
by james gaddy

Remains in Light

Hiro Yamagata's art for a new Afghanistan.
by jesse ashlock

Departments

/LETTERS
Don't knock mass production.

/UPDATE
Developments in I.D. stories from a year ago.

/NOTE
Hands off our initials.

/EXPO
Australian church conversion. Turkish prayer bowls. Front's first furniture line. Richard Meier's Ara Pacis Museum.

/Q+A
Michel Peissel on Tibetan monasteries
by erika lorentzsen

/RANT
Drug names are just another way of saying paradise.
by david barringer

/R+D
A controversial South African rape condom.
by benjamin austen

/SCAPE
Moscow's skyline is a patchwork of the sacred and the mundane.
by jon fasman

/N+N
NYC Tenement Museum antiques shop. Shabbat candlesticks by Adam Tihany. Meditation blankets by Fibre Tibet.
by jill singer

/CRIT
Product: Xbox
reviewed by joe brown
Architecture: MIT Brain and Cognitive Sciences Complex
reviewed by nancy levinson
Exhibition: Darwin
reviewed by emily bobrow
Book: The Rose Window
reviewed by eve m. kahn

/BACK STORY
How the priest's collar went from necessity to holy symbol by nancy einhart