Articles — The Revealer

The Patient Body: Choosing Childlessness

April 27, 2015

“The Patient Body” is a monthly column by Ann Neumann about issues at the intersection of religion and medicine.

Orphan Fever: The Evangelical Movement's Adoption Obsession

April 15, 2013

By Kathryn Joyce When devout Christian families made it their mission to save children from war-torn countries, the...

Adult Sexual Assault Victims and the Catholic Church

January 30, 2011

From Kathryn Joyce's recent article at Religion Dispatches: Adult victims could comprise up to 25% of all clergy abuse...

Feature

Theocracy, Eh?

January 23, 2006

23 January 2006 Pilgrim Harper brings the culture wars north. By Kathryn Joyce From Le Cornichon A smart and serious...

Subjective Fluff and the BBC

November 3, 2005

When the God-Beat-beat goes parliamentary, do the same standards of criticism apply? Do the same subjective questions religion-beat critics...

Feature

The Last Man on Earth: A Romance

July 28, 2004

By Kathryn Joyce “Back in 1985 [Margaret Atwood] was highly amused by the initial reactions to her Orwellian...

Re-Branding Revolution

June 24, 2004

Are media misconceptions of evangelicals about to start working in their political favor? By Kathryn Joyce After The Los Angeles...

Review

Godzilla, Born Again

May 29, 2004

The original Godzilla, a parable of atomic hubris, is playing in America for the first time. Is its hero...

Facts, Faith, and "The Jesus Factor"

May 20, 2004

On the uses and abuses of neutrality by the religious right, the liberal media, and the journalists caught in...

NPR's Little Gods

May 17, 2004

Kathryn Joyce examines NPR’s mild religion. It might be a natural reaction, considering the “uptick”of religion-associated violence in the world, to...

Welcome to Godsend

April 17, 2004

Revealer associate editor Kathryn Joyce writes: In the title story of his collection, Welcome to the Monkey House, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.tells us what all...

Church of Fools

April 15, 2004

A reader writes: “Enough about Blogs already and enough about internet religion!! Another week of this and The Revealer will be...

A Guide for (and to) the Godless

April 9, 2004

Revealer associate editor Kathryn Joyce writes: Atheist-turned-Christian-scholar Alister McGrath has written a new book, The Twilight of Atheism: The Rise and Fall of Disbelief in...