Belief Unbracketed
At last — a manifesto! We wish we’d written it ourselves, but, failing that, we’re glad it came from...
Do You Believe in Blog?
Two days to Bloggercon, the open conference on weblogs convened by Dave Winer, a blog innovator and a fellow at the...
Church of Fools
A reader writes: “Enough about Blogs already and enough about internet religion!! Another week of this and The Revealer will be...
The "Freedom" of "Religion"
A daily collage of religion in the news from the war. “None of these acts is the work of a religion....
Is Kerry Catholic?
Melinda Henneberger launches a new column on “culture war” in Newsweek, “Varia,” with a response to the many, many, Catholics calling for John Kerry‘s head, or at least...
The Second Coming of the Dawn of the Dead
Mel Gibson, wrote Chris Lehmann in reviewing The Passion for The Revealer, turned to the aesthetics of horror to spread his religion. Now Adam H. Becker explains...
Rara Politics
The New York Times’s Lydia Polgreen explores some of Haiti’s politics of religion in today’s story, “An Easter Voodoo Festival with Political Undertones.” Learn more...
A Guide for (and to) the Godless
Revealer associate editor Kathryn Joyce writes: Atheist-turned-Christian-scholar Alister McGrath has written a new book, The Twilight of Atheism: The Rise and Fall of Disbelief in...
The Difficulties of Genocide
On the tenth anniversary of the Rwandan genocide, Revealer editor Jeff Sharlet looks at the memorials and morality tales on offer...
What does the Mehdi Army Believe?
UPDATE: “River,” an Iraqi blogger, writes: “If the situation weren’t so frightening, it would almost be amusing to see Al-Hakeem and...
Bloggercon Gets Religion
Jeff Sharlet, editor of The Revealer, writes: I’ll be moderating a discussion session on religion, spirituality, and God blogs at Bloggercon,...
The Dolorous Passion of South Park
Gut Pesach. Stewart M. Hoover writes from Colorado on last week’s already-legendary South Park episode, “The Passion of the Jew”. Stewart, a member...
Matzo Princess
“I tell people, ‘I wish I’d been an Entenmann,’ ” Michele Heilbrun, Streit’s Matzo heir, tells the NY Times‘ Corey Kilgannon. “Chocolate...
Only the Best
Ted Olsen at Christianity Today‘s weblog calls our attention to “one of the best religion cover stories [Time]—or any mainstream news...
jBlogs
Scholars, wonks, and rebbeles; mameles and makhers-in-their-own-minds; such are the denizens of jBlog (as the Jewish blogosphere is called)....
Sabbath Reading
Last Sunday, we wrote briefly about Peter Steinfels, a religion reporter at The New York Times and a popular pundit on things...
Where's the Why?
Why is the American press ignoring the role of religion in Iraq? The question bears that blunt a phrasing...
Muscular Christianity Flexes Again
Before there was Survivor, there was “The 700 Club.” In 1997, a small group of American missionaries was pinned down...
Godless
A few days after we built this page, Norwegianity wrote: “How do you tell if a website on religion is on...
Shabbat Reading
Shabbat reading below; but first, a scooped report: Is muscular Christianity entering a new weight class? Yes — and...
Lies We Tell Ourselves
Reader Christopher Bugbee writes in with a comment on Jack Kelley, the former USA Today star reporter recently revealed as a serial fabricator: Along...
"Incomprehensible"
A NEW DAILY FEATURE With only a few exceptions, the Western press and the elite Arab press are reporting...
See the Dreamer
Sheik Ahmed Yassin, the co-founder and spiritual leader of Hamas, on Friday, March 19, three days before his assassination....
The Apocalypse is Always Now
On the eve of Glorious Appearing, the final installment of the bestselling Left Behind series, a true tale of the apocalypse from Revealer editor Jeff...