Articles — The Revealer

Conversation

Searching for God, One Bestseller at a Time

March 7, 2023Daniel Burke

A conversation with Stephen Prothero about his book “God the Bestseller” and the pioneering editor behind some of the...

Excerpt

Putin’s Christian Russia as a Model for America

April 7, 2022Sarah Riccardi-Swartz

An excerpt from Between Heaven and Russia: Religious Conversion and Political Apostasy in Appalachia

Perspective

The Buddha at the Bellagio: (Teaching) Religion in Sin City

March 7, 2022Corey Landon Wozniak

The abundance of religion in Las Vegas, from wedding chapels to nightclubs, reveals much about religious life in the...

Excerpt

The CIA’s Religious Approach to Espionage

November 4, 2021Michael Graziano

An excerpt from the book Errand into the Wilderness of Mirrors: Religion and the History of the CIA

Photo Essay

Reluctant Televangelists: Worship in the Bible Belt during the Pandemic

December 8, 2020Pete Kiehart

A look into how churches in North Carolina have transformed because of COVID-19

Feature

Elegy for Tisquantum: The Mayflower at 400

November 12, 2020Ed Simon

On this month's 400th anniversary of the Mayflower landing at Plymouth, Americans should reconsider the place of Tisquantum in...

Conversation

Secular Sex and Social Justice

October 6, 2020Kali Handelman, Janet Jakobsen

Kali Handelman interviews Janet Jakobsen about her book The Sex Obsession and what it can teach us about today's...

Review

Excursions in Unbelief: Retrieving Religion’s “Antitype” in U.S. History

September 8, 2017

Geoffrey Pollick reviews Village Atheists: How America’s Unbelievers Made Their Way in a Godly Nation by Leigh Eric Schmidt

Field Note

Devotion in the Desert: Religion and Emotion on the Margins of Hindu and Hippie

November 7, 2016Drew Thomases

Drew Thomases reports from Bhakti Fest, an annual yoga, sacred music, and personal growth festival in Joshua Tree.

Feature

God and Guns

September 25, 2015

Patrick Blanchfield tracks the long-standing entanglement of guns and religion in the United States. Part 1 of 2.

In the News: The Crusades, Anti-Vaxxers, Chocolate Gods, and more!

February 24, 2015

A round-up of recent religion and media stories in the news.

Review

To Take Place and Have a Place: On Religion, White Supremacy & the People’s Movement in Ferguson

September 17, 2014

This is the first in a series of articles that Laura McTighe will be writing for The Revealer over...

I Don't Speak Jive: the FLOTUS Speech

September 6, 2012

by Nora Connor I heard the sound of right-wing internal organs. hitting the floor in bloody lumps one after...

Hat Trick

November 10, 2003

The Revealer’s better half, Killing the Buddha, scores with one of the more interesting pieces on the consecration of Gene Robinson,...