Articles — The Revealer

The Patient Body: Healthcare and the Kiss of Jesus

January 25, 2016

A monthly column by Ann Neumann about issues at the intersection of religion and medicine.

August 14, 2015

A round-up of the week's religion news.

May 15, 2015

A round-up of the week's religion news.

January 15, 2014

From Pakistan, Umar Farooq looks at the diminishing political role of Sufi saints and shrines in a rapidly urbanizing...

Review

October 9, 2012

By Ed Simon A review of Afterlives of Saints, in which author Colin Dickey examines that borderland where saints...

December 20, 2011

From "On the Religious Roots of Celebrity Worship" at Philly.com (Philadephia Inquirer/Daily News): "There's a kind of cultural fascination...

August 21, 2011

Heaven is for Real: A Little Boy’s Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back by Todd Burpo,...

October 5, 2010

Colin Dickey writes about cities and the dead for Lapham's Quarterly. From "Necropolis": Throughout early Christendom, bishops consolidated power...

November 11, 2003

Actually, the Vatican abolished that office — also known as the “devil’s advocate” — 20 years ago, but when...