“The preaching is Baptist, long and good, about the generations springing up and being cut down like grass. The...

“‘There’s something very important about the fleshiness of Jesus,'” says Jay Johnson, a theologian at the Pacific School of Religion’s Center...

Snow day! Secret high holy day! Vacation! Technical difficulties. Move along. Nothing to see here. Meantime, entertain yourselves with...

The Revealer welcomes some competition in the religion-press-critique business from GetReligion.org, a new blog edited by Doug LeBlanc and written, for the most...

The-God-of-Small-Things is a blog maintained by someone named Bob. As far as we can tell, it has one entry — a...

Faiza Saleh Ambah of The Christian Science Monitor concluded her five-part series on making the hajj yesterday. An hour after the last...

Gregg Easterbrook writes: “I’ll tell you what shakes my belief. Not natural selection; not the evil and injustice of the...

David Klinghoffer writes erudite but peculiar books. In one, he recalled his teenage self-circumcision as part of a “conversion” experience...

Are evangelicals real, or just a story to scare the children of the Upper West Side? 60 Minutes ponders, Wonkette investigates. As it...

Every day for months now, some pundit, some critic, some tired Godbeat reporter looking for a brush with celebrity,...

Diane Winston cites scholar Richard Flory on the roots of the media’s problem with the “r” word: “In the early 20th century,...

There’s a valuable comparison to be found by slogging through this week’s New Yorker lead story (print only), by the normally-astute Jon...

The New York Times reports today that what The Salvation Army is really all about (the New York division, at least) is,...

“Satanic hysteria” is such an interesting phrase, with so many possibilities. The coffee clerk who brought it up at...

The Revealer likes to harp on a theme, a rather vague notion of democratic religion writing — the sort practiced...

An exceptionally poor Associated Press report last week paired the news of a Catholic priest’s arrest in Ohio for growing pot with...

Follow your dreams” is a popular theme in teen magazines, but Brio, dedicated to “challenging teen girls toward a healthy...

The “Readings” section of the Harper’s February edition points The Revealer toward this peculiar prayer: Father God, we ask your blessings on our...

The Revealer is still sick. Check back tomorrow, please; and in the meantime, visit our friend Kathy Shaidle at Relapsed Catholic. Kathy was...

21 January 2004 Iviews offers Muslim news and analysis with a non-religious focus. The Islamic Broadcasting Network offers live and archived...

The Revealer has a fever today, so high I’ve been haunted by fever dreams of George W. Bush leading an orange-robed choir...