Articles — The Revealer

Christian Movies and Representational Politics

April 13, 2011

From Andrew O'Hehir's review at Salon of "Soul Surfer": If evangelical Christians want to see their life and faith and values...

First Mel Gibson Came for the Jews...

July 2, 2010

He's run through anti-semitism (The Passion of the Christ), classism (restraining order against a homeless man?!) and now --...

The Passion of Constantine

February 22, 2005

Next to Constantine, Mel Gibson’s The Passion is an episode of Spongebob Squarepants. In Constantine, Keanu Reeves as the titular, demon-slaying hero visits...

Daily Links 02 November 2004

November 2, 2004

For Those About to Rock Billboard: GOP would rather you did not rock the vote, thank you very much....

Passion Prequel

March 31, 2004

We lied: Tonight’s South Park is not the last word on The Passion. Our friend John D. Spalding, author of A Pilgrim’s Digress, has just...

Bach v. Mel

February 29, 2004

Prepare yourself for heresy: Mel Gibson is the Johann Sebastian Bach of the 21st century. We leave it to others to compare their...

Rising and Falling

February 26, 2004

Can it be true? He is risen and she is fallen — which is to say, Mel‘s commercial ressurrection is...

A Yellow Star for Mel

February 25, 2004

At last — the big day for what may be the biggest religion story in 2,000 years — the...

Ransom Theory

February 22, 2004

Here’s a line you wouldn’t expect to find in the pages of a major secular daily: “The Gospel of...

A Grateful Jew

February 18, 2004

As we type, film critic Michael Medved is on CNN explaining the problem with Mel Gibson‘s Passion. What’s the problem? The Jews. CNN brought Medved,...

Passion Pieces

February 4, 2004

Every day for months now, some pundit, some critic, some tired Godbeat reporter looking for a brush with celebrity,...

Don't Go There, Jews

November 4, 2003

To the barricades, Christian soldiers: Christianity Today’s editors predict that Mel Gibson’s Passion “will provoke exactly the same number of anti-Semitic incidents as [Campus...