God is a Monster

February 9, 2008
Gabriel McKee on sin and redemption in Cloverfield. The Revealer editors were reminded by a recent viewing of...

Eat, Pray, Loathe

February 7, 2008
Jewcy's Izzy Grinspan may be overly-optimistic in reporting a backlash against Elizabeth Gilbert's spiritually infantile Eat, Pray, Love, but...

The Myth That Ate Itself

February 4, 2008
Revealer contributing editor S. Brent Plate is evidently saving his best stuff for the all-new Religion Dispatches, where he...

Praying With Lior

February 4, 2008
The Jewish Week calls attention to Lior Liebling, 12-year-old Jewish "spiritual genius," and a new documentary about his...

The Sodfather

January 28, 2008
"I'm here to capture the rapture and the resurrection," says master composter Tim Dundon, self-proclaimed "guru of doo-doo," in...

The Martyrdom of Brad Will

January 21, 2008
He was an anarchist and an independent journalist who went to Mexico to document revolution -- and ended up...

The Martyrdom of Brad Will

January 19, 2008
Sharlet: The CrimethInc. Ex-Workers Collective has posted my new Rolling Stone story on their fallen friend, Brad Will,...

Religion and Real Estate

January 17, 2008
The Church of Scientology's Celebrity Centre trades as much on the glory of the stars who stayed there when...

Jon Stewart's Brave New World

January 4, 2008
In which The Daily Show host discusses Aldous Huxley, Eugene V. Debs, Ralph Nader, and his faith in the...

Oh Yes, Oh Yes, My Darling!

October 11, 2007
Sharlet: "Oh Yes, Oh Yes, My Darling!: The Great Unsung Song of Lee Hays" -- or, as Oxford...

New Revealers Coming Soon

October 11, 2007
A while ago The Revealer advertised for new revealers. We received a wonderful response! And will soon be...

The Road Not Taken

September 4, 2007
In which we reveal fundamentalist little man Gary Bauer's secret roots in prog rock.

The Abstinence Gluttons

June 3, 2007
Here's a news story for the "timeless" file, the sort of hardboiled investigative reporting on an overlooked corner of...

God Bits

April 23, 2007
Neil Young, Jack Nicholson, Bob Dylan, Michael Moore, Jane Fonda, and Patti Smith talk religion in Rolling Stone's 40th...

Keeping It Unreal

April 12, 2007
Jeff Sharlet: I've a review of Faking It: the quest for authenticity in popular music, in the U.K. magazine...

Teenage Holy War

April 7, 2007
Jeff Sharlet: Rolling Stone has posted online the opening section of my latest feature, "Teenage Holy War," along...

National Magazine Awards

April 2, 2007
Have you ever had unkind thoughts about L. Ron Hubbard? If so, you need to read Janet Reitman's 14,000-word...

The Colorful Apocalypse

March 20, 2007
On The Revealer's sister site, Killing the Buddha: Greg Bottoms set out on the quest that resulted in...

Is Terabithia a Christian Nation?

March 11, 2007
"Safety and faith are different things," Katherine Patterson, author of Bridge to Terabithia tells Christianity Today, rejecting the "safe...

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