Articles — The Revealer

In the News: Voting, Protesting, and Distracting

November 7, 2016

A round-up of recent religion news.

March 22, 2016

A round-up of recent religion news.

February 24, 2015

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

Feature

March 29, 2013

As earlier memorials to bears and whales suggest, capitalism doesn’t diminish our need for ritual—it heightens it.

December 3, 2012

Good reads pulled from The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Nation, The Paris Review, The Revealer and elsewhere.

Review

October 9, 2012

By Ed Simon A review of Afterlives of Saints, in which author Colin Dickey examines that borderland where saints...

Review

August 29, 2012

An excerpt from Afterlives of the Saints: Stories from the Ends of Faith (Unbridled Books, 228 pp.) by Colin...

October 5, 2010

Colin Dickey writes about cities and the dead for Lapham's Quarterly. From "Necropolis": Throughout early Christendom, bishops consolidated power...