NPR’s “Fresh Air,” a daily interview program hosted by Terry Gross, often comes under attack for what conservative critics...

Kathryn Joyce examines NPR’s mild religion. It might be a natural reaction, considering the “uptick”of religion-associated violence in the world, to...

The latest issue of The New York Review of Books is a page-turner (not) of essays that should touch or focus...

Scott M. Korb reviews a blog of freaky belief that’s more-and-more common. He fancies himself something of a freak, a...

Today begins the three day public conference of New York University’s Center for Religion and Media, the institution at which The...

Why do so many Americans believe that Saddam supported Al Qaeda when even the White House denies it? The...

Thomas Hamill escapes from Iraq and gets drafted into the cult of American Heroes. By Jeff Sharlet First there...

The good people at Powell’s, the best-stocked independent bookstore in America, requested a tour report from my Killing the Buddha co-author Peter...

Revealer contributor Julia Rabig writes: The unfolding of abuse scandals that accelerated in the Catholic Church over the past few years has...

Not everything at Dinosaur Adventure Land, a creationism theme park in Pensacoloa, Florida, is about dinosaurs. For instance, there’s the...

By Jeff Sharlet “Inquisition,” by Francisco Goya. Crucifixion, by U.S. Army specialist Sabrina Harman.) The picture on the left...

By Michael Lesy Everyone thinks they know what they see here. Close one eye and look, and it’s a...

by Michael Lesy Military Coffins (Photo: the Pentagon, via The Memory Hole) Everyone thinks they know what they see here....

“It is easy to think of Vatican II, which convened during Armstrong’s convent years, as a switch that was...

  Into the Kill Zone by David Klinger “They must practice spiritual fitness to live the life the Army...

“Junior used to say he liked to live in hotels because he was a son of Englishmen. When he...

Not Kimya Zahedi, a Muslim Iranian-American, orTaylor Lasley, a Presbyterian African-American. AndClark Buden, great-grandson of Nelson Rockefeller, sure isn’t a M.O.T., regardless...

“The notion that Wicca is America’s fastest-growing religion has achieved meme status. Everyone says it, but who started it?” Chas...

Last week Raymond McInnis, a columnist for Daily News Online, responded to a Revealer post by asking: “Why, currently, do I –as a secular humanist...

A daily collage of of religion news from the war in Iraq. Also new on The Revealer today: The Rise of Religious...

A short report in last week’s Financial Times (subscriber only; click on #42 here to sign up for a free trial) describes one...

A daily collage of religion news from the war in Iraq. Worse than Vietnam? European Union Commissioner for External...

Revealer associate editor Kathryn Joyce writes: In the title story of his collection, Welcome to the Monkey House, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.tells us what all...