Articles — The Revealer

Review

The Siege at the Bridge: James Martin and the Fight Over LGBT Catholics

December 21, 2017Michael Pettinger

Michael Pettinger reviews Building a Bridge: How the Catholic Church and the LBGT Community Can Enter into a Relationship...

Cycles of Memory: A Conversation between Randy R. Potts & Patrick Blanchfield

October 4, 2016

Patrick Blanchfield interviews Randy R. Potts about his new project "The Bible Went Down with BirdieJean"

Feature, Excerpt

The Bible Went Down with Birdie Jean: Book IV: my Munna

October 4, 2016

An excerpt from "The Bible Went Down with Birdie Jean" by Randy R. Potts

In the News: Migration, Occupation, Representation & more!

August 31, 2016

A round-up of recent religion news.

In the News: Bernie, Bagels, Buddahs, and more!

October 9, 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.

In The News: A Muslim girl superhero, Navajo Mormons, Uighurs, Pat Robertson, and more!

November 20, 2013

A round-up of recent religion & media news.

Schradle's Links: Bask in the Reflected Glory of our Media Relevance Edition

February 19, 2013

Nathan Schradle Religious leaders are learning that they will be held accountable, to such an extent that they attempt...

He Winketh with His Eyes, He Speaketh with His Feet

June 4, 2012

Joe McKnight: Walter Wink was, among other things, an outspoken critic of the “biblically-based” homophobia that has long plagued...

A Germ of Believability

June 28, 2011

Abby Ohlheiser: So, did you hear that, following New York's lead, The Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) now recognizes and...

Taking Gaga Off the Lebanese Shelves

June 7, 2011

Ashley Baxstrom: Not even a celebrity shout-out is enough to satisfy some. The Los Angeles Times reported on...

Feature

Pathologizing the Sexual Revolution

June 7, 2011

Part of The Revealer’s series on the John Jay report, “The Causes and Context of Sexual Abuse of...

Abuse of Power Comes as No Surprise:The Causes and Context of Sexual Abuse of Minors by Catholic Priests

May 23, 2011

by Frances Kissling This past week, criminologists at the John Jay College of Criminal Law released a numbers crunching, statistically...

Upgrading to Homos

April 11, 2011

The Catholic League's president, Bill Donohue, has written all of us a long letter which features in a full...

Tolerance Makes Kids Gay

March 27, 2011

"Tolerance" is considered a general good, an aspirational goal that, when done right, ameliorates violence and promotes understanding. But...

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...

Moral Norms for Immoral Behaviors

November 23, 2010

From the 2004 article "The Truth About Condoms" by Opus Dei Father Martin Rhonheimer, Professor of Ethics and Political...

Killing a Homo is Easier Than Killing a Myth

November 23, 2010

The Southern Poverty Law Center takes the time to list and debunk 10 anti-gay myths, including Homosexuals are more...

Greeting the Pope with Kissing Queers

November 8, 2010

Spanish gays lined the streets Pope Benedict passed along during his visit there. Sarah Seltzer points us to

God-Led Government

August 25, 2010

Catch The Revealer founder, Jeff Sharlet, talking about his new book, C Street, on NPR's "Fresh Air" today. Among...

Religion Stories for the Week with Jeff Sharlet and Amy Sullivan

August 17, 2010

Today Bloggingheads.tv has posted a conversation on religion and the media between Jeff Sharlet, founder and contributing editor to...

The Strange Moves of The Economist

July 19, 2010

By Jeff Sharlet The reverence with which so many upper-middle class Americans read The Economist has always puzzled me. There’s...

The Church Is A Lady

May 31, 2010

Mary Valle: Paul Vitello reports in the New York Times about the new, invasive screening of prospective priests,...

Notes from the War Room

April 5, 2006

A historian of Christian martyrdom attends a Christian Right strategy session in the "War on Christians. By Elizabeth A. Castelli A...

Next page