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Signs along the way: roadside faith expressions are especially American.

Publication: National Catholic Reporter
Publication Date: 05-OCT-07 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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Sam Fentress has spent the past 25 years crisscrossing the nation, traveling America's highways and byways, stopping along the way to snap shots of religious signs in every state except Hawaii. He found everything from John 3:3 on a farm silo in Ohio to "Obey God or Burn" scratched into a rock in Harlem.

Together, his photographs capture the gamut of Christian religious expression in America. Now, nearly 150 of those images are collected in his recent book, Bible Road: Signs of Faith. in the American Landscape.

The story of his images--thousands collected over a lifetime--begins with his religious and intellectual experiences in college.

Mr. Fentress, 52, was raised a Methodist in Nashville, Tenn., but by the time he attended Princeton University, he...

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