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While I was in graduate school, I made a bit of needed extra money by turning a hobby, photography, into a short and modest career as a part-time photojournalist. Since then, I continued to take photographs but have kept them in the realm of my private life, until recently when I began to post them publicly on Flickr. One ongoing project of mine has been to photograph signs of spiritual life visible on the roads and highways of America.

This store-front church is in Hearne, Texas.

A camp meeting near Port Aransas

The basketball court of a church adjacent to Hwy 183 between Austin and Lockhart.

Strip mall church in Austin

This abandoned church was located in Littig, population 40, one of the first African-American towns founded in Texas after the Civil War. It was incorporated in 1883. Littig had three churches and this one was abandoned in favor of a new brick church nearby. It has burned down since this picture was taken in 1995.

"Jesus died 4 Thorndale," Thorndale, Texas.

B'nai Abraham, a synagogue in Brenham, built 1885

A synagogue in Corsicana, built around 1898.

For more on spiritual life in Texas see "History Revealed in a Very Small Place," also by Robert Abzug