Posts tagged "Jeff Sharlet"
Religion Stories for the Week with Jeff Sharlet and Amy Sullivan
Today Bloggingheads.tv has posted a conversation on religion and the media between Jeff Sharlet, founder and contributing editor to The Revealer and author of the forthcoming C Street and Amy Sullivan, contributing writer with Time magazine. The topics that they cover are: the killing of 10 health workers/missionaries in Afghanistan; gay marriage; the "Ground...
Debating Heaven
Uganda's parliament will soon vote on the so-called "Kill the Gays" bill which originally called for the death penalty for homosexual acts but has been stepped back to require life imprisonment. Michael Wilkerson writes today at Religion Dispatches about The Call's event this weekend in Kampala that was organized to rally support for...
Sam Brownback Is A Fruit
02 February 2006 On biblical literacy, bigotry, the price of grain, real estate in Tbilisi, free market cheetahs, and the secret work of committees. By Jeff Sharlet Although he’s firmly opposed to both homosexuality and crude slurs such as “fruit,” Senator Sam Brownback won’t mind me saying he is one. That’s because the senator uses...
Half/Life: Jew-Ish Tales
26 January 2006 Sharlet: Publishers Weekly reviews Revealer contributor Laurel Snyder‘s new edited volume, Half/Life: Jew-Ish Tales From Interfaith Homes.”‘Half’ is an interesting, incorrigible, perplexing and profound moniker in its own right, a label that somehow captures the existential angst that all people experience.” Mine, anyway; I’ve an essay in the book, which isforthcoming in April. Fellow contributor Katherine Weber’s essay, “Oy,...
One-Love
26 January 2006 Senator Sam Brownback’s democracy: “‘This, [he says,] being senator, running for president, waving the flag of a Christian nation — ‘is about serving one constituent.’ He raises a hand and points above.” The Revealer’s Jeff Sharlet meets “God’s Senator,” in Rolling Stone.
If Brooke Hurley Had Breasts, She Would Not Be Dancing With Ben Tel
12 January 2006 Sharlet: Lest anyone think my taste for stupid dick jokes is limited to making fun offundamentalist swordsmen, a link to a rare exercise in Jewish adolescent fiction kindly published by my comrades at Killing the Buddha. Of course, the real joke is that the right wing magic sword thing is true, while the mundane...
Poppa’s Got A Brand New Sword
11 January 2006 Fundamentalists get Freudian, for real. “With the right hand of my righteousness.” Do you experience erectile dysfunction? Would you like a little more size? Pastor Rod Parsley wants to help — he’ll turn your “male headship” into a deadly weapon with extra inches. Pastor Rod is the fundamentalist feudal prince of Ohio,...
Married White Female
Married White Female 29 December 2005 Outside of Washington and evangelical circles, Concerned Women for America don’t rate much attention. That’s too bad — CWA is one of the most effective Christian conservative lobbying organizations around. Reporters and activists should take note of CWA’s initiatives, because as often as not they lead to legislation. Last...
You Say Jesus, I Say Geezus!
29 December 2005 Sharlet: One of my colleagues here at The Revealer saw more virtue in Sylvia Topp’s Village Voice rant about Bush’s religion than I did. The awkward part is that I’d already responded to a friend at the Voice to the effect that the best I could say about the essay was nothing....
NYT Chuckles at Fundies, and Does Their Work for Them
Jeff Sharlet: Are U.S. military chaplains promoting homophobia and discrimination against non-Christian women on taxpayer time? The New York Times reports that New Life Ministries plans to send 6,000 sexual abstinence kits, titled “Every Soldier’s Battle,” to U.S. military chaplains who’ve requested them as counseling tools for soldiers. The Times notes that the kits are...
Killing the Buddha
By Jeff Sharlet Killing the Buddha: A Heretic’s Bible has just been published in paperback by Free Press / Simon & Schuster. When my co-author Peter Manseau and I set out to make Killing the Buddha, we wrote that “we had lost faith in the way faith gets talked about in America, the way it’s...
