The Yenta What Schooled Her Sharlet: In a few weeks I head up to Boston to answer a few...

Making Torture Beautiful 11 June 2005 by Jeff Sharlet In 1989, Andres Serrano dunked a crucifix in a vat...

The Church of No Questions How do you get shown the door at one of America’s most powerful megachurches?...

There’s just no good term for the cultural movement and political force variously referred to as the “Christian Right,”...

Blogger Slacktivist takes one sentence from Pastor Ted Haggard, president of the National Association of Evangelicals — “They’re pro-free...

Jeff Sharlet: Harper’s has posted the entirety of my feature from its May issue, “Soldiers of Christ: Inside America’s...

Who Will Cry For a Witch? Lilith Saintcrow of God and Consequences reveals, with the help of the Indianapolis...

Making it in America: We received an unusual artifact of religious media in the mail today — a stealth...

“Casimir Pulaski Day” Lyrics by Sufjan Stevens from his forthcoming album, Come On Feel the Illinoise Goldenrod and the...

Prayer Muckraker: Terry Heaton inteviews evangelical leader Brian McLaren on postmodernism, post-colonialism, and what might be called muckraking prayer:...

“If it’s warm and it’s damp and it vibrates you might, in fact, have sex with it.” — anti-abortion...

Revealer contributor Holly Berman writes: The New York Times series on class, launched with a statistically compelling, if bloodless,...

“If it’s warm and it’s damp and it vibrates you might, in fact, have sex with it.” — anti-abortion...

What does the NYTimes‘ Elisabeth Bumiller do when presented with a story that reveals cracks in the Christian right? Why, she calls Jim...

Episcopal Smackdown!: Is Lauren Winner‘s new book on Real Sex (spoiler: only hetero, married whoopee) actually creeping fundamentalism? Astrid...

Sharlet: Spent the morning in an interview with Matthew Wells, a BBC radio reporter who’s been working the evangelical...

A fine example of the uncritical approach the mainstream press takes to most religion stories can be found in...

Everything but the longing: Peter Bebergal: “I have begun collecting psychedelic music again, almost twenty years after I traded...

The Revealer is taking a blogging break (back next week), and we won’t be Pew-fueled in the future — but...

Our Reformation: The Revealer is taking a blogging break (back next week), and we won’t be Pew-fueled in the...

Jonathan Edwards and the Making of America By Jeff Sharlet Benjamin Franklin has of late been enjoying some of...

John Tierney throws some red meat to the mythical red states in his (relatively) new NYT column. Today’s is...

Jeff Sharlet: The Revealer will be taking a short break from blogging for a few weeks, but we’ll continue...