Articles — The Revealer

Perspective

Evangelicals Make Themselves Essential to the Next Insurrection

February 6, 2024David W. Congdon, Jason Bruner

What the documentary “The Essential Church” reveals about evangelical hostility toward the government

Column

More than Missionary: The Mourning After

February 6, 2024Gillian Frank

The Arkansas legislature approved plans for a memorial to “unborn children” terminated “during the era of Roe v Wade”

Excerpt

Single Mothers, Sex, and Christian Nationalism

December 8, 2022Bradley Onishi

An excerpt from the forthcoming book Preparing for War: The Extremist History of White Christian Nationalism—And What Comes Next

Review

Stonewall Jackson and Fundamentalism's Mythic Past

August 22, 2017

Jeff Sharlet presents an excerpt from his 2008 book, The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American...

In the News: Hip Hop, Hijabs, Hasidic Fashion, and more!

June 5, 2015

A round-up of the week's religion news.

Review

Cooking the Books: A Review of "The Revisionaries"

June 14, 2012

By Nathan Schradle The Revisionaries, a documentary about the Texas State Board of Education, debuted at this year’s Tribeca...

Feature

As Goes Iowa:The Family Leader, Religious Politics and 2012

March 8, 2011

by Andy Kopsa America’s culture wars are at full throttle: defunding Planned Parenthood, chipping away at a woman’s right to...

Middle God

February 2, 2006

02 February 2006 The Washington Post’s Peter Slevin profiles John Danforth, Episcopal priest, former senator, and current naysayer to the Christian right....

Holy Land: Holy Land

January 4, 2006

04 January 2006 A coalition of U.S. evangelical groups, led by none other than Pat Robertson, is negotiating with...

Christian Right Celebrates Year of Fear

December 22, 2005

22 December 2005 The Christian Right: Looking back, looking forward. Concerned Women for America, a conservative outfit often represented...

Daily Links 23 August 2005

August 23, 2005

Tonight At 11 Jeff Sharlet: I was so completely wrong about the mainstream media ignoring Pat Robertson’s Big Idea...

This Is Not My Christian Nation, Daily Links 24 June 2005

June 24, 2005

Christianity Today, the flagship magazine of conservative American evangelicalism,editorializes “the obvious”: George W. Bush is not Lord, and “God...

Feature

Sex as a Weapon

June 22, 2005

22 June 2005 Decoding the Literature of the Christian Men’s Movement By Jeff Sharlet (Published in Nerve, April 25, 2005)...

Daily Links 02 November 2004

November 2, 2004

For Those About to Rock Billboard: GOP would rather you did not rock the vote, thank you very much....

The Book of LaHaye

February 19, 2004

Buried in a Christian Science Monitor report on apocalyptic Christians and those who preach against their doctrine is this sociological curio:...

Biblical Christians (As Opposed to The Other Kind)

October 10, 2003

A gathering of conservative Episcopalians in Dallas ended yesterday with the church still intact and the majority of the...