After Michael Phelps

August 20, 2008
What are mainstream media's top three China talking points? 1. Good Olympics! Too bad about the little girl who...

What We Think We See in Iraq

July 15, 2008
Artist Karina Aguilera Skvirsky brings the war home by photographing reenactments of Iraqis at prayer or in reflection in...

Prepare for the Awesoming!

July 11, 2008
Awesomed By Comics isn't, technically, about religion. It's about comics. Totally awesome comics. Not so much the kind of...

Jewish Anarchists

June 28, 2008
In the late 19th century, the biggest political movement in Jewish America was anarchism, equally opposed to church and...

Apocalypse Savings

June 3, 2008
"The mind is capable of artful compartmentalisations; in one moment, a man might confidently believe in predictions of Armageddon...

We're All Gay Episcopalians Now

June 2, 2008
There's some irony in an Episcopalian informing us that the concerns of the Anglican Communion, which has in the...

"Can I Borrow A Feelin'?"

May 30, 2008
We're using the inclusion of numerous Christian music album covers in the Florida Sun-Sentinel's fabulous collection of the worst...

Beyond Belief

May 29, 2008
Founder porn: a fetishistic fascination with the behind-the-scenes, under-the-covers, shifting whimsy of a group of men who set down...

Whose Land?

May 29, 2008
Under the heading of American mythology, our national religion: "No-Man's Land," a meditation in The Believer on gentrification...

The Kaus Problem

May 19, 2008
"Besides the Jew," writes Joshua Cohen in the Jewish Forward, "there is no greater hater of the self than...

Hurry Up, Harper's

May 17, 2008
Could Harper's' timing have been better? Just as the California Supreme Court issues its landmark ruling on same-sex marriage,...

Science and Spirit

May 14, 2008
Jeff Sharlet: My longtime collaborator and frequent Revealer contributor Peter Manseau has been given charge of a magazine called...

Real Wright and Wrong

April 29, 2008
Sharlet: I'm putting Diana Butler-Bass' response to the Jeremiah Wright media tour in the "timeless" category because her response...

Between the Motion and the Act

April 25, 2008
"Between the idea /And the reality," reads Omri Elisha's epigraph for his new anthropological study of evangelical compassion, "Between...

Cult Rock!

April 22, 2008
NPR reporter Jennifer Sharpe describes her journalistic immersion into the "ooga booga" of Father Yod's Source Family commune, the...

A Pat Robertson Retrospective

April 20, 2008
Bill Sizemore of the Virginian-Pilot has spent much of his career reporting on Pat Robertson, the last alpha male...

How to Name a War

March 26, 2008
"Euphemism and American Violence," an essay in the New York Review of Books by David Bromwich, may be the...

Fetal Rock

March 6, 2008
What else to call the new CD from Christian industrial rocker Eowyn, Silent Screams, which borrows its title...

One Nation Under Elvis

February 26, 2008
"Hound Dog," allegedly stolen by Elvis from Big Mama Thornton, was written by two New York Jews. One of...

Orgone Sounds Like?

February 14, 2008
If you happen to be in Vienna and in need of... stimulation, you'll want to visit Jewish Museum of...

Save "Spiral Jetty"!

February 13, 2008
The artist Robert Smithson died in 1973 when a small plane malfunctioned while he was filming his masterpiece, "Spiral...

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