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The Italian Baroque artist Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, better known as Guercino, painted the subject of Christ and the woman of Samaria at the well at least five times in his career. The story in John 4:1–30 tells of Jesus speaking with a Samaritan woman and teaching her about the water that he could give that brings everlasting life. Not only was this message unexpected but so, too, was the conversation between a man and a woman and between a Jew and a Samaritan.

Photographer and anthropologist Liz Hingley grew up in Birming­ham, United Kingdom, the daughter of two Anglican priests. In her photodocumentary series and book Under Gods: Stories of Soho Road, she documents the city’s diverse religious communities. She cites an Asian-Anglican woman priest who observes that immigrants are more conscious of their faith than of where they came from.