Megachurches & Money
Some of the best religion reporting in The New York Times appears in the Business Section, under the byline...
2007 Favorite Books
By Jeff Sharlet
The British New Statesman asked me to contribute to their round-up of best books of the year....
The Argument: Youtube
According to Virginia Heffernan, Youtube rants about religion, “part atavistic race riot, part religious disputation and part earnest effort...
The Faith Between Us
Now in bookstores! The Faith Between Us: A Jew and a Catholic Search for the Meaning of God,...
American Academy of Religion
Jeff Sharlet: Revealer contributing editor S. Brent Plate writes, "From stone tablets to scrolls, printing presses to the Internet,...
Jewish Dialogue, Christian Monologue?
So a rabbi, a pastor, and Christianity Today's David Neff walk into a bar... John D. Spalding on the...
Free Speech? My Speech.
“Free speech,” declared conservative writer Phyllis Chessler in observance of “Islamofascism Awareness Week,” “belongs also to those of us...
Francis Schaeffer's Holy Fools
Jeff Sharlet: I’ve a review of Frank Schaeffer’s fascinating new book, Crazy for God: How I Grew Up As...
Letting Jesus and Buddha Dance Together: Eve and the Fire Horse
The image of Jesus and the Buddha dancing together in a living room is just one of several images...
New York Times Declares Religious Right Dead. Again.
Jeff Sharlet: With "The Evangelical Crack-Up," New York Times conservative beat reporter David D. Kirkpatrick's nearly 8,000-word cover...
Evangelicals Want Power, and They Have It
Beliefnet's "Blogalogue" on "Evangelicals in Power" continues: Tthe language of sin and evil, anyway, which, depending on how it's...
Upcoming Events
Sharlet: This Sunday, October 21, I'll be delivering "The Carl Lecture" at the United Methodist Church in one...
We're All Evangelicals Now
Jeff Sharlet: Beliefnet's "Blogalogue" on "Evangelicals in Power" began yesterday. Revealer contributor Patton Dodd, now an editor at...
Movements vs. Media Narratives
Sharlet: Laurie Goodstein's NYT Week in Review essay this past Sunday, "For a Trusty Voting Bloc, Faith Shaken,"...
Where's the Treasure?
Mississippi gubenatorial candidate John Arthur Eaves ressurrects William Jennings Bryanwith his challenge to the state’s governor, wealthy former lobbyist Haley...
Oh Yes, Oh Yes, My Darling!
Sharlet: "Oh Yes, Oh Yes, My Darling!: The Great Unsung Song of Lee Hays" -- or, as Oxford...
A Mighty Beard
In "Onward Chrisian Scholars," (NYT Magazine, 9/30), Molly Worthen profiles New St. Andrew's College in Moscow, Idaho. It's...
New Revealers Coming Soon
A while ago The Revealer advertised for new revealers. We received a wonderful response! And will soon be...
The MacDowell Colony
Jeff Sharlet: I’m back, again, after a month mostly off the grid in the woods of New Hampshire. I...
A Box Labeled "Bomb"
On the anniversary of the Birmingham Church Bombing, Ashley Makar listens to the voice of the killer.
Kennedy Dead
Sharlet: Not that Kennedy. To me the most interesting thing about D. James Kennedy‘s death today is how little...
Help Wanted
In which The Revealer's summer absence is explained and its future presence pondered.
Hillary's Prayer
For 15 years, Hillary Clinton has been part of a secretive religious group that seeks to bring Jesus back...