Editor's Letter: Looking Back on 2021
The Editor reflects on the year, New York City’s “Welcome Back” concert, and Revealer writers’ insights about the world
Here are the results for Ed Simon.
The Forgiveness Tour: Can You Forgive A Whole Continent Who Betrayed You?
An acclaimed writer meets with a Holocaust survivor to learn about the possibilities and limits of forgiveness
The Name: A History of the Dual-Gendered Hebrew Name for God
A book excerpt with an introduction by the author
Editor's Letter: New Year, New Things, and Pressing Issues
The Editor shares new features coming to the Revealer and reflects on some of today’s urgent concerns
In the News: Calligraphy, Coens, a Caffeinated Casket and much more!
A round-up of recent religion news.
John Paul II Beatified Today
Pope John Paul II, who's been placed on the fast track to sainthood, was beatified in Rome today, before...
Scott Simon Sings Songs for the Butcher's Daughter
Revealer editor Peter Manseau talks to NPR’s Scott Simon about his new novel, Songs for the Butcher’s Daughter.
What We Cared About, 2008
Some of the most interesting texts of 2008, selected by the contributing editors of The Revealer.
Annual "Best Book" lists...
Knight Chair in Media and Religion
Why should you read a website burdened by the unwieldy title of "Knight Chair in Media and Religion"?...
Captain America, Murdered Mensch
WNYC’s “On the Media” interviews Captain America’s 93-year-old creator, Joe Simon, who’s sitting shiva for the <a href="murdered hero....
Feeding Desires, Judging Sin
The Los Angeles Times offers simple solutions instead of making important connections between religion, sex and politics. ...
Buddha Born Again, Killed
–Jeff Sharlet KillingTheBuddha.com — “cheaper than church,” “paved with good intentions,” “Allah in the family,” “god for the godless” —...
Fragmented Journalism
Pamela Constable’s Fragments of Grace is a better illustration than diagnosis of what’s wrong with foreign religion reporting. Reviewed by Jeff Sharlet...
Strange Characters; or, the Antecolumbian Imaginary
Ed Simon on how pre-Columbian contact theories play with a story of America that can be told and retold.
Seems like Straw to Me: On Garry Gutting’s Talking God
Ed Simon reviews Talking God: Philosophers on Belief by Gary Gutting
The American Apocalyptic Sublime and the Twilight of Empire
Ed Simon pulls at the thread of eschatomania linking an apocalypitic puritan poem to today's news and literature.
The Savior’s Friends: On Tom Bissell’s Apostle
Ed Simon reviews Apostle: Travels Among the Tombs of the Twelve by Tom Bissell
The Remembrance of Amalek
King Philip's War and the many beginnings and ends of sacred violence in America. By Ed Simon.
The Great God Pan Still Lives
Ed Simon reviews Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms: Journeys into the Disappearing Religions of the Middle East by Gerard Russell.
Preachers from the Palace of Wisdom, or: Ranterism in the UK
Ed Simon reviews Nigel Smith’s Ranter Writings: Spiritual Liberty and Sexual Freedom in the English Revolution.
The New Liturgy: Devotional Poetry of the Past & Present
Ed Simon reviews Before the Door of God: An Anthology of Devotional Poetry edited by Jay Hopler and Kimberly...
Unfit for Heaven and Earth
By Ed Simon A review of Afterlives of Saints, in which author Colin Dickey examines that borderland where saints...
The Fascinating Jesus Film You Probably Haven’t Seen
A review of the “faith-based” flop Black Easter and what its failure reveals about conservative Christian media today
Elegy for Tisquantum: The Mayflower at 400
On this month's 400th anniversary of the Mayflower landing at Plymouth, Americans should reconsider the place of Tisquantum in...