India's Holy Shahs

May 12, 2010
We've been a giant fan of BibliOdyssey, a site of printed treasures curated by Peacay (or...

See the Dreamer

March 29, 2004
Sheik Ahmed Yassin, the co-founder and spiritual leader of Hamas, on Friday, March 19, three days before his assassination....

Dreamers and Assassins

March 29, 2004
“See the Dreamer in his wheelchair. A poor man. Paralyzed. Blind to this world…” Or was he? Photo-historian Michael Lesy takes...

After The Passion

March 10, 2004
You’ve seen The Passion of The Christ so many times now you can sing along to all the songs, and you’re...

Who Owns the Passion?

March 9, 2004
Another smart review of The Passion can be found in The Nation, wherein Stuart Klawans weighs Gibson’s marketing and moviemaking skills: “Beyond my parochial squeamishness...

Marketing God, Part II

March 9, 2004
The Revealer’s latest original feature, “Picturing The Passion,” by Chris Lehmann, is the second installment of his series on the Marketing of God. Lehmann,...

Mel Gibson's Baby

March 3, 2004
Mel Gibson defines evil for Christianity Today‘s Mark Moring: “taking something that’s good and twisting it a little bit.” Well, if you say...

Nailing the Passion

February 26, 2004
    “Rodolfo Esqueda removes pewter nails from the mold used to make one of the pieces of jewelry...

Prayer Maps

February 22, 2004
Pizza parlors, shipping offices, printing shops, jewelry shops — temples, all, as revealed by photographer Jaime Permuth‘s “Manhattan Mincha Map,”...

Sundance God

February 18, 2004
A new original feature from The Revealer, Patton Dodd‘s report from the Sundance film festival: “[R]eligious film is what I went...

Passionate Letters

January 28, 2004
The Revealer likes to harp on a theme, a rather vague notion of democratic religion writing — the sort practiced...

Eden on the Block

January 16, 2004
In the beginning, there was a “time of innocence.” Pam Shaw, one of a few thousand Eves, called it...

The Samson Effect

December 18, 2003
To shave or not to shave, that was the question Saddam Hussein‘s captors faced; and the answer, writes The Washington Post‘s Philip...

Pictures of Heaven

December 4, 2003
Iranian photographer Hengameh Golestan’s name means, literally, “spectacular rose garden,” a fact she notes in a feature for the Irish...

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