Holidays in Haiti

March 3, 2004
With John Kerry‘s hair looming large on the newscape, Haiti has been returned to its “place” in the hierarchy of...

Unvarnished Love

March 3, 2004
Virginia Postrel has cut through much of the noise of the gay marriage debate by publishing on Dynamist a letter, with pictures,...

Ruth, Revealed

March 3, 2004
The Revealer will be practicing a different kind of religion journalism, in person, at the JCC of Manhattan on Thursday, March 4,...

The Voodoo Question

March 2, 2004
Most of the mainstream press has covered the violence in Haiti as if just learning about the country for...

God for Prez

March 2, 2004
“Really quick, is God on America’s side?” Don’t worry — it’s a rhetorical question. At least, it is when The...

Everyone's a Critic

March 2, 2004
New: The Revealer presents a set of sorta-secular links to mainstream media criticism. Recommendations welcome.

Quindlen in the Middle

March 2, 2004
Anna Quindlen‘s latest Newsweek column is as earnest as ever, but there’s a refreshing edge brought on by a letter writer’s assumption that...

To Be or Not to Be

March 1, 2004
Iraq’s U.S.-appointed Governing Council has agreed on the principle of a federalist constitution, reports Al Jazeera. “Islam will be the official religion of the...

God's Strawberry

March 1, 2004
The Revealer wishes there was more good religion/sports coverage. As it is, we have to settle for strange little scraps...

Cookie Monsters

March 1, 2004
There’s an intriguing round-up of sources at Christianity Today on news out of Texas that the baby-killing Bluebonnet Council of Girl Scouts has...

Minor Quibbles

February 27, 2004
A new BBC poll gives the lie to the oft-repeated notion that the U.S. is the most religious country in the world. Turns...

Into The Darkness

February 27, 2004
Religion writers will be familiar with the Catholic Church’s more nuanced attempts to spin the news of its American...

Punctuating the Divine

February 27, 2004
Having spread the news of official reports and officious surveys (see the following two items) and The Passion (see much of...

Nailing the Passion

February 26, 2004
    “Rodolfo Esqueda removes pewter nails from the mold used to make one of the pieces of jewelry...

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...

Prayer Maps

February 22, 2004
Pizza parlors, shipping offices, printing shops, jewelry shops — temples, all, as revealed by photographer Jaime Permuth‘s “Manhattan Mincha Map,”...

Tough Guys

February 20, 2004
Our post will be delayed today; in the meantime, study this line-up.

The Book of LaHaye

February 19, 2004
Buried in a Christian Science Monitor report on apocalyptic Christians and those who preach against their doctrine is this sociological curio:...

Sundance God

February 18, 2004
A new original feature from The Revealer, Patton Dodd‘s report from the Sundance film festival: “[R]eligious film is what I went...

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,...

One Way (Or Another)

February 17, 2004
Republican, Democrat; red state, blue state; “Christian,” non-Christian… to this list of fuzzy distinctions beloved by the press, add...

Enlightening Iraq

February 17, 2004
We suppose it should come as no surprise that The Salt Lake Tribune, using a Combined News Service report, should give...

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