Posts tagged "Jeff Sharlet"
New Virgins
12 October 2005 Revealer editor Jeff Sharlet responds to Jeremy Lott about the importance of chastity to the Christian conservative movement, on Beliefnet.
This Is Not What It Seems
12 October 2005 Sharlet: I’ve a short item on Harriet Miers’ church, Valley View Christian, coming out in an upcoming issue of Rolling Stone. Poking around the site, I came across a startling link, to theGospel Broadcasting Association, which declares: “This ministry is directed to the peoples of the world which historically have embraced Christianity–namely, the Caucasians,...
Pitbull Press
12 October 2005 Sharlet: 10 minutes after I write a Revealer item wondering why the press failed to notice the white supremacist, Christian conspiracy link on the site of Harriet Miers‘ church (it’s not what you think), liberal site Daily Kos brings news of a press biting into a religious question like pitbulls. In a 32 minute press briefing, demanded...
The Chronicle of Higher Education, Radical Feminazi Stealth Rag
07 October 2005 Christian Right leader Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council takes a swipe at my former Chronicle of Higher Education colleague Peter Schmidt in the latest edition of his email newsletter. Peter’s sin? Reporting that Harriet Miers helped establish a lecture series at her alma mater, Southern Methodist University, that has often featured liberal speakers. “The Chronicle is certainly no friend of the pro-life cause,”...
Our New Deal
This past summer, I announced that The Revealer‘s foundation funding had come to an end. But that doesn’t mark its death. Starting this fall — now — The Revealer takes on a greatly-expanded staff of graduate student journalists, who’ll be providing much of the commentary in our “Today,” “Timely,” and “Timeless” blog columns below and...
Journalism Faces Faith
Magazine Writing: Journalism Faces Faith By Jeff Sharlet Abbreviated In an era of culture war, holy war, and technological revolution, religion, in the true, broad sense, permeates at least half the stories in the news. Iraq, Iran, Israel — we know those are religion stories. George W. Bush is a religion story. Stem cell research...
“The Rest of the Goddamn Nation”
Those aren’t the words of a starving prisoner of the New Orleans Superdome, radicalized by the realization that he or she may well die for lack of a school bus. They’re the words of Col. Terry Ebert, director of Homeland Security for New Orleans. FEMA’s response — or lack thereof — he told The New...
High Lonesome Gospel
17 August 2005 Raw-skinned and born again. By Jeff Sharlet Excerpted from Oxford American’s annual Southern music issue Let’s look at the facts about Al Green. Or rather, the fact, the biographical detail he does not discuss, the moment around which the whole story turns: around 4 a.m., October 17, 1974, when the last, great, sweet falsetto soul singer of...
Daily Links 12 August 2005
Son of Justice Sunday This weekend (Aug. 13-14) on your NPR affiliate: The Revealer‘s Jeff Sharlet talks with Brooke Gladstone of “On the Media” about “Justice Sunday II.” Last April, Justice Sunday helped focus the faithful of the Christian conservative movement on “judicial activism”; it also afforded Senator Bill Frist an opportunity to declare Democrats the opponents of “people of...
Tammy Hall, Sudan
02 August 2005 By Jeff Sharlet How some Christian conservative activists are turning killers into cash cows — and why the press never notices. A few years ago a respected journalist for the mainstream press told a colleague of mine who was investigating the Sri Lankan conflict to disregard the evangelical press. Actually, what this...
Genuinely Innovative, Assuredly Radical
30 June 2005 Southern Baptist Big Ponders the Young and the Sexless By Jeff Sharlet R. Albert Mohler, Jr., president of the Southern Baptist Seminary, takes on my recent Rolling Stone story on virgins in a lengthy rumination for Crosswalk.com, available at The Christian Post. Mohler, declared by Time the “reigning intellectual of the evangelical movement in the U.S.,” challenges my argument...
Billy Graham Has Nice-Looking Posters
25 June 2005 Sharlet: Billy Graham is back in New York City, for one last crusade. Cue the nostalgia; cue the clouds of forgetting. The press has been beyond adulatory, with only a nod toward’s Graham’santi-Semitic past from the NYT‘s Laurie Goodstein and the predictable snark from the little papers. It wasn’t always so simple for Graham, who, for a...
