Review Intersections: Plate Interviews Gregory GrieveDecember 5, 2013S. Brent Plate interviews digital religion scholar Gregory Price Grieve, a pioneer in the emerging field of religion in...
Review Intersections: Plate Interviews Ronald L. GrimesSeptember 4, 2013S. Brent Plate continues his Intersections series with an interview with ritual theorist Ronald L. Grimes.
Review Intersections: Plate Interviews Kelly J. BakerFebruary 5, 2013S. Brent Plate continues his Intersections series with an interview about the KKK with Kelly J. Baker.
Feature Chronicling C.S. Lewis: Marketing and MythologyJanuary 1, 200601 January 2006 Lewis’ theology was concerned with myth, which is why he cannot be fully appropriated by the...
Field Note Battling our Demons, On Screen and OffMay 23, 2018S. Brent PlateS. Brent Plate on fighting the demonic stereotypes rampant in contemporary media.
Review Intersections: Interview with Rachel WagnerDecember 17, 2012By S. Brent Plate An audio interview with fellow Rachel Wagner about how she got from Blake to digital...
PBS Gets ReligionOctober 8, 2012by S. Brent Plate Another reason to lament Romney's plans to cut funding for PBS.
Feature Intersections of Religion and Media: Interviews IISeptember 2, 2012In an ongoing series of print and audio interviews, S. Brent Plate talks to experts about the field of...
Feature Intersections of Religion and Media: InterviewsJuly 2, 2012Intersections of Religion and Media: S. Brent Plate interviews Jolyon Mitchell, Rianne Subijanto, Diane Winston, J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu,...
The Mediation of Meaning, or Re-Mediating McLuhanJune 23, 2012by S. Brent Plate Meaning is produced by, in, and through social, political, and economic institutions, cultural and religious...
I Love You, I Do.February 13, 2012We asked our Near and Dear to tell us something about today, the day when we celebrate love--or loss...
A Buddhist ValentineFebruary 13, 2012By S. Brent Plate Love is not a shepherd's crook. I am not the great shepherd Reaching out to pull you in. You...
Our Monsters, OurselvesOctober 17, 2011A review of W. Scott Poole's Monsters in America: Our Historical Obsession with the Hideous and the Haunting...
Feature The Religious Uses of Marshall McLuhanJuly 22, 2011by S. Brent Plate In the midst of media hoopla about another technology being laid to rest--namely the end of...
Atheism vs Religion: Take 253: Matthew Chapman's The LedgeJuly 8, 2011by S. Brent Plate Before you've even heard of this film, Bill Donohue has, once again, given it a ratings...
Buddha and Jesus, Together in the Tokyo SuburbsNovember 16, 2010by S. Brent Plate I'm just back from a few weeks researching gardens in Japan, the kind of Zen-type designs...
Lost and Religious MortalityMay 24, 2010by S. Brent Plate: "This is the end, my only friend the end . . . I'll never look into...
Feature Beyond the BestDecember 28, 2008 13 dispatches from the forgotten frontiers, crooked paths, and cul-de-sacs of religion reporting in America. By Jeff Sharlet Last week, I...
Dreaming of Oz in MumbaiDecember 5, 2008S. Brent Plate: In the wake of the terrorist attacks on Mumbai, one of The New York Times most...
Only Visiting This PlanetMarch 4, 2008Christian rocker Larry Norman moves on. By S. Brent Plate: The first album I ever bought was Larry Norman's Only...
The Myth That Ate ItselfFebruary 4, 2008Revealer contributing editor S. Brent Plate is evidently saving his best stuff for the all-new Religion Dispatches, where he...
American Academy of ReligionNovember 2, 2007Jeff Sharlet: Revealer contributing editor S. Brent Plate writes, "From stone tablets to scrolls, printing presses to the Internet,...
Fair VanityJuly 17, 2007Sharlet: Revealer contributing editor S. Brent Plate sent in the following commentary on Vanity Fair's special July issue dedicated...
You Got Some 'Splainin' To Do!April 12, 2007S. Brent Plate: Finally on YouTube: God himself. For the first time we find out the reasons for Down...