Heretical Hannukah Party

December 10, 2009
TONIGHT: Celebrate Revealer alum and Killing the Buddha co-founder Peter Manseau’s trifecta win of Jewish book awards for his...
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Considering The Case for God

December 9, 2009
Karen Armstrong's rebuttal to the new atheists. By Jenna Johnson A flood of mainstream, atheist literature...

Sunday Delivery

November 23, 2009
Stephanie Butnick: In the Faith section of the Washington Times, Karen Goldberg Goff reports that truckers who happen to...

A Slice of Heaven

November 19, 2009
Elissa Lerner: They were more than 70, and they may not have all been virgins, but 200 young women...

A "fan" of Auschwitz?

October 14, 2009
Elissa Lerner: Raffi Berg reports that Auschwitz now has its own Facebook page. He writes that the Polish officials...
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The Family

July 1, 2009
By Jeff Sharlet The Revealer is on summer hiatus, but I'm currently blogging at KillingTheBuddha.com, an online literary magazine...
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What Happened to The Revealer?

April 24, 2009
The Revealer has become awfully opaque of late, a static page of rarely renewed writing. That's because I've turned...

Where's the Love?

March 12, 2009
The “Hindu face of the Taliban” is making trouble for canoodling couples in India. Self-proclaimed morality police, the vigilantes...

Faith, Hope, and Revisionism

March 12, 2009
Peter Manseau: When Pope Benedict XVI visited Auschwitz in 2006, the prayer service he led began with the words

You Can Call Me Al

February 15, 2009
Is the Religious Right dead? It should be, suggests Sarah Pulliam in evangelicaldom’s most influential magazine, Christianity Today. Not...

The Corrections

February 15, 2009
Sharlet: Several times now reviewers of my recent book, The Family, have incorrectly charged that I claim in...

Where's the Love?

February 14, 2009
14 February 2009 Indian canoodling couples face the wrath of the Sri Ram Sene. By Meera Subramanian On January...

Alison Des Forges, 1942-2009

February 14, 2009
Jeff Sharlet: Among the dead of Continental Flight 3407 was a 66-year-old historian and activist named Alison Des Forges....

My Bloody Valentine

February 14, 2009
Louis A. Reprecht asks, “How have we gone from a beheaded priest to a giddy worldwide day of romantic...

RNC Religion

February 2, 2009
Michael Steele, new Republican National Committee chairman, is African-American; he’s also a serious Roman Catholic who spent three years...

National Jewish Book Award

February 2, 2009
Sharlet: It's a treat to be able to announce that Songs for the Butcher's Daughter, by Revealer contributing editor...

Sarah Palin Goes Godless

February 2, 2009
SarahPAC.com, the website of Palin's new political action committee, is notable chiefly for what's missing from it --...

Groundhog Day, Again

February 2, 2009
By Angela Zito Groundhog Day is upon us again. Having once discussed the film with Alex Kusczynski of the...

Updike at Rest

January 27, 2009
John Updike is dead; NYT responds with curiously brief AP obituary, featuring this even curiouser comment on sex and...

Inaugural Hope, Civil Religion

January 19, 2009
Most of the NYT‘s inaugural reporting hasn’t really been reporting at all. It’s the would-be scripture of civil religion,...

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