Girls are for losers.
Ashley Baxstrom: What do women want? Rich, successful husbands, duh. Husbands who will comfortably support them and their...
Sabbath Reading
It’s just been called to our attention that in our Thursday announcement of our new guide to the God beat, we...
Shabbat Reads
Doc Searls, who describes himself as a Christian, is nonetheless concerned about the radio range wars being waged by...
Retire the "Culture War"
Historian Julia Rabig writes in to decode one of journalism’s most abused catchphrases, “culture war”: Just two examples: Lyle Denniston of The Boston Globe informs...
Belief Beat
The Revealer will be speaking at a conference, “The Belief Beat: Religion & Journalism,”at Yale Divinity School tonight. Preparations must be...
Freestyling
Jimmy Carter is, as ever, diplomatic in his denunciation of the White House’s current religion. In The American Prospect, he tells Ayelish...
Just Presupposing...
San Francisco Chronicle religion writer Don Lattin weighs in on disgraced USA Today journo Jack Kelley: “Kelley — who resigned earlier this year amid allegations that...
Oy vey, St. Blog!
St. Blog’s Parish, the Catholic blogosphere that’s rapidly displacing the Catholic print press, is something of a moveable feast....
St. Blog's Parish
Librarian Rachelle Linner explores the Roman Catholic blogosphere — “St. Blog’s Parish,” as it’s known — and finds it wanting. “The clearest...
Instant Religion
What’s worse than a communist? An “ultra-communist,” of course. And there’s only one cure for that disease: Jesus. AP’s Melinda Leitsinger reports from...
High Fretting Over Who You'll Meet in Heaven
From Caleb Crain‘s review of Richard Wightman Fox‘s Jesus in America in The New York Times a few weeks ago: “Artists of existential anxiety, the...
The God-Plus Beat
Aha — now we know why David Kirkpatrick (see “Evangelical Borg”) extracted such a one-note article out of the curiousity (to say...
Gay Marriage, This Instant
Writing about the fight for — or against — gay marriage means writing about religion. Yet most of the...
Baptism in Iraq
More on the Mandaean water worshippers of Iraq, from Megan K. Stack of The Los Angeles Times: “When they want to find God,...
Quindlen in the Middle
Anna Quindlen‘s latest Newsweek column is as earnest as ever, but there’s a refreshing edge brought on by a letter writer’s assumption that...
Cookie Monsters
There’s an intriguing round-up of sources at Christianity Today on news out of Texas that the baby-killing Bluebonnet Council of Girl Scouts has...
Tough Guys
Our post will be delayed today; in the meantime, study this line-up.
One Way (Or Another)
Republican, Democrat; red state, blue state; “Christian,” non-Christian… to this list of fuzzy distinctions beloved by the press, add...
Get It? Got It. Good.
The Revealer welcomes some competition in the religion-press-critique business from GetReligion.org, a new blog edited by Doug LeBlanc and written, for the most...
Prayers Big and Small
The-God-of-Small-Things is a blog maintained by someone named Bob. As far as we can tell, it has one entry — a...
Without a Peg
Faiza Saleh Ambah of The Christian Science Monitor concluded her five-part series on making the hajj yesterday. An hour after the last...
Ooga-Booga Christians
Are evangelicals real, or just a story to scare the children of the Upper West Side? 60 Minutes ponders, Wonkette investigates. As it...
What's in a Name?
“Satanic hysteria” is such an interesting phrase, with so many possibilities. The coffee clerk who brought it up at...
Anti-anti-anti-Catholicism
An exceptionally poor Associated Press report last week paired the news of a Catholic priest’s arrest in Ohio for growing pot with...