13 dispatches from the forgotten frontiers, crooked paths, and cul-de-sacs of religion reporting in America. By Jeff Sharlet Last week, I...

Some of the most interesting texts of 2008, selected by the contributing editors of The Revealer. Annual "Best Book" lists...

Only months ago, what scant attention the press paid to fundamentalism in American life was dedicated to declaring the...

A review of and excerpt from the best Jewish novel of the year, by Revealer contributing editor Peter Manseau Peter...

How "compassionate conservative" Marvin Olasky uncovered my secret yearnings...

By Jeff Sharlet When Bloggingheads TV, the website that produces...

By Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins Friends, we have a terrible confession we must make: We were wrong. In our...

Is there something about mediation itself that resonates with modern ideas of religiosity? By Angela Zito Excerpted from Rethinking Religion 101:...

How mainstream media reduces religion to moral matters and why that hurts the debate about the politics of faith....

"Just when we thought the Christian right was crumbling, Jeff Sharlet delivers...

John Gorenfeld puts Obama's alleged "problem pastor" in perspective by shining a light on another religious figure with even...

A weekly review of reviews about religion and media. By Jeff Sharlet Reasons to Believe: John Marks, a novelist and...

Smart religion writers have been complaining for awhile that exit polls don't ask Democratic voters about their religious affiliations....

How Huckabee repackages old-timey fundamentalism. By Jeff Sharlet D. Michael Lindsay, the Rice University sociologist who upended conventional wisdom about...