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Conversation

Hard to Love: A conversation with Briallen Hopper

February 20, 2019Briallen Hopper, Kali Handelman

Revealer Editor, Kali Handelman, interviews Briallen Hopper about her new book Hard to Love: Essays and Confessions

Column

Political Feelings: The Purest Kind of Ideology

March 20, 2018Patrick Blanchfield

“Political Feelings” is a bi-monthly column by Patrick Blanchfield about stories, scenes and studies of religion in American culture....

The Patient Body: Anniversary Edition: Four Years of “The Patient Body”

October 17, 2017

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

In the News: Voting, Protesting, and Distracting

November 7, 2016

A round-up of recent religion news.

Are the Gods Afraid of Black Sexuality?

October 22, 2014

And interview with Professor Josef Sorett about the launch of Columbia University's Center on African American Religion, Sexual Politics...

What's more American than church and beer!

July 24, 2012

by Ashley Baxstrom Forget everything you think you know about America.

Announcements

The Revealer In the World

November 17, 2011

Thanks to a generous two-year grant from...

Vegan Criminals

November 17, 2011

Amy Levin: You're in jail. What will you eat on Thanksgiving day? Most media coverage of religion in prison over...

In Praise of Capital

October 6, 2011

Amy Levin: Marching down Lafayette yesterday, surrounded by hundreds of #occupywallstreet protesters, I experienced what many in my shoes...

Feature

From Birchers to Birthers?

September 23, 2011

An excerpt from Heather Hendershot's new book, What's Fair on the Air: Cold War Right-Wing Broadcasting and the...

Safe Words

August 16, 2011

Abby Ohlheiser: All the religious language of the last fortnight's Perry and Ames fest '11 (or should that be...

Atheism vs Religion: Take 253: Matthew Chapman's The Ledge

July 8, 2011

by S. Brent Plate Before you've even heard of this film, Bill Donohue has, once again, given it a ratings...

We Were Born This Way

May 13, 2011

Is it really any surprise that religion's not going away? It can't because we're born with it. So says...

Science, Increasingly a Matter of Belief

November 28, 2010

Tom Junod, in the latest issue of Esquire writes (link below): We are not going to live forever. We...

What is the Public Square?

May 18, 2010

No longer the patch of pounded earth in the middle of town, is the public square the shrinking footprint...

Different Levels of Credibility Between Religions?

May 12, 2010

Hunter Baker blogs at First Things that he is not entirely happy with the way his email...

Love Your Mother

February 24, 2006

24 February 2006 Love your mother: Church of England Bishop of Bolton, the Rt. Rev. David Gillett, has called...

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 23 August 2005

August 23, 2005

Tonight At 11 Jeff Sharlet: I was so completely wrong about the mainstream media ignoring Pat Robertson’s Big Idea...

Review

High Lonesome Gospel

August 17, 2005

17 August 2005 Raw-skinned and born again. By Jeff Sharlet Excerpted from Oxford American’s annual Southern music issue Let’s look at the...

Daily Links 16 January 2005

January 16, 2005

Real Live Revealer Today! Revealer contributor Jesse Sunenblick talks live with Robert Howard and Bill Kirkpatrick, filling in for Jean Feraca...