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Listen to the Earth

January 17, 2010
Early interpretations of Haiti's tragedy from the theological frontlines. By Angela Zito Listening to The...
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Hollow Trunks

January 13, 2010
Several years ago, I began writing and editing book reviews for The Revealer. As you probably know,...
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Considering The Case for God

December 9, 2009
Karen Armstrong's rebuttal to the new atheists. By Jenna Johnson A flood of mainstream, atheist literature...
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The Family

July 1, 2009
By Jeff Sharlet The Revealer is on summer hiatus, but I'm currently blogging at KillingTheBuddha.com, an online literary magazine...
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What Happened to The Revealer?

April 24, 2009
The Revealer has become awfully opaque of late, a static page of rarely renewed writing. That's because I've turned...
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Beyond the Best

December 28, 2008
13 dispatches from the forgotten frontiers, crooked paths, and cul-de-sacs of religion reporting in America. By Jeff Sharlet Last week, I...
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What We Cared About, 2008

December 11, 2008
Some of the most interesting texts of 2008, selected by the contributing editors of The Revealer. Annual "Best Book" lists...
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Biblical Capitalism

October 2, 2008
Only months ago, what scant attention the press paid to fundamentalism in American life was dedicated to declaring the...
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Songs for the Butcher's Daughter

September 10, 2008
A review of and excerpt from the best Jewish novel of the year, by Revealer contributing editor Peter Manseau Peter...
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My Loveless Universe

September 6, 2008
How "compassionate conservative" Marvin Olasky uncovered my secret yearnings...
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The Revealer Jumps the Shark

April 25, 2008
By Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins Friends, we have a terrible confession we must make: We were wrong. In our...
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Religion is Media

April 16, 2008
Is there something about mediation itself that resonates with modern ideas of religiosity? By Angela Zito Excerpted from Rethinking Religion 101:...
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The Confession Forum

April 16, 2008
How mainstream media reduces religion to moral matters and why that hurts the debate about the politics of faith....
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Bad Moon Rising

March 25, 2008
John Gorenfeld puts Obama's alleged "problem pastor" in perspective by shining a light on another religious figure with even...
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The Week in God (and Hardcovers)

February 17, 2008
A weekly review of reviews about religion and media. By Jeff Sharlet Reasons to Believe: John Marks, a novelist and...
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Survey Says: Evangelical Democrats!

February 13, 2008
Smart religion writers have been complaining for awhile that exit polls don't ask Democratic voters about their religious affiliations....
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Huck's Old Wine

January 16, 2008
How Huckabee repackages old-timey fundamentalism. By Jeff Sharlet D. Michael Lindsay, the Rice University sociologist who upended conventional wisdom about...
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2007 Favorite Books

November 22, 2007
By Jeff Sharlet The British New Statesman asked me to contribute to their round-up of best books of the year....
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We're All Evangelicals Now

October 15, 2007
Jeff Sharlet: Beliefnet's "Blogalogue" on "Evangelicals in Power" began yesterday. Revealer contributor Patton Dodd, now an editor at...
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Fundamentalism's Colonial Drag

June 26, 2007
Former Revealer managing editor Kathryn Joyce makes her Newsweek.com debut with an account of "The Other Jamestown Party,"...

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