Articles — The Revealer

Excerpt

The Name: A History of the Dual-Gendered Hebrew Name for God

November 12, 2020Mark Sameth

A book excerpt with an introduction by the author

In the News

In the News: Cruelty, Comedy, and Communists

October 10, 2018Kali Handelman

A roundup of recent religion writing.

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.

Under the Mask of Marvels

July 15, 2015

Rex Barnes reveals Marvel's pre-modern religious origins.

In the News - Heathens, Hymns, and Holy Men

July 8, 2015

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

In The News: #LoveWins, #TakeItDown, #WhoIsBurningBlackChurches

July 2, 2015

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

Adam's Nipples

April 16, 2011

In my capacity as editor of a publication on religion and media, two terms that consistently mean as many...

Of Football, God, & Twitter

December 2, 2010

Elissa Lerner: Unless you're a Buffalo Bills fan, you might have missed an epic dropped pass by Bills...

Senseless Gestures

August 16, 2010

"My friend (if I may still call him that) believed in humanity, and so he also believed in order,...

A "Kook, Weirdo, Nutjob, Whacko" Gets His Gun

July 12, 2010

A Sioux City, Iowa man was denied a gun license by Sheriff Douglas Weber because, said the sheriff,...

His Left Hand

July 5, 2010

José Saramago, a Portuguese writer and Nobel Prize winner, died last month. He was 87. From Baltasar and Blimunda,...

My God! Abramoff.

January 16, 2006

16 January 2006 “‘After reading the e-mail, it became pretty obvious he was putting money before God. We are...

Daily Links 29 August 2005

August 29, 2005

Oh, My Godcast! The NYT offers up as evidence that consumer hi-tech is the most awesome force in, like, history the...

Daily Links 17 December 2004

December 17, 2004

Just Like a Greek Tragedy Not content with proving the existence of God, Google aims to recreate His mind. Mob Morality Stoner...

Feature

God's Awful Music, Pure & Clean

November 17, 2004

God’s Awful Music, Pure & Clean 17 November 2004 “We have been given a terrible choice: Michael Landon and Highway...

27 June 2004 Daily Links

June 27, 2004

“‘In heaven there is no beer, that’s why we drink it here.'” The National Enquirer stumbles into Denver’s prayerful nightclub, The...

Do You Believe in Blog?

April 15, 2004

Two days to Bloggercon, the open conference on weblogs convened by Dave Winer, a blog innovator and a fellow at the...