Bible Studies

May 2, 2005
Bartholomew reads Agape Press so you don’t have to, and returns to the world with news of the weird...

Of Human Stains

April 28, 2005
Kate Hawley: When a salt stain on the wall of a Chicago underpass began to gain credence as miraculous...

It's Not What It Looks Like..

April 27, 2005
Speaking at an American Studies conference about “Politics and Religion in USA” at an Islamabad university, Deputy Chief of...

Radio On

April 25, 2005
Revealer editor Jeff Sharlet discusses his cover story from the May issue of Harper’s, “Soldiers of Christ: Inside America’s Most Powerful Megachurch,” tonight...

Leather God

April 22, 2005
“‘The flogger, with each lash of the whip,'” says Master Skip, a man of God and leather, “‘has one...

Who You Callin' Christian?

April 22, 2005
Mainline Protestants fight back: NYT “conservative beat” reporter David D. Kirkpatrick, with Sheryl Gay Stolberg, bring us signs of a liberal Christianity gearing...

The Moon Position

April 21, 2005
“Moonie” mass marriages are legend; but what about the consumation? Yolanda Elise Brener recalls her days of passion and holy handkerchiefs with her...

God Bless America -- Or Else

April 18, 2005
Religious fascism at Yankee Stadium? Evangelical scholar and writer Randall Balmer says it’s so when singing “God Bless America” becomes a...

And They're Off!

April 15, 2005
Those who prefer their pope-news in the style of The Daily Racing Form will find an excellent guide to ponies — Ratzinger ahead...

Luther in Brazil

April 15, 2005
Reporting on the growth of evangelicalism in Latin America isn’t exactly “news,” but Henry Chu‘s LA Times feature on the transformation is an...

Blame Game

April 14, 2005
The conservative Washington Times can’t be faulted for lack of transparency in its coverage of Tom “The Hammer” DeLay. We admire...

Who's Afraid of the Holy Ghost?

April 12, 2005
In a set of guidelines for religious education released this week in England, teachers have been instructed to avoid...

Reading Niebuhr Instead

April 11, 2005
"For all his love of country, Niebuhr never learned to stop worrying and love the bomb. What he did...

Big In The Trading Card World

April 7, 2005
Religious kitsch is a fact of life for religion writers, and after awhile the wobbly pope dolls and the...

The Reverent and the Rude

April 7, 2005
Media in the Home of the Free and the Brave, by Garret Keizer: "Is the Pope Catholic?" we ask,...

Moralistic Therapeutic Deism

April 7, 2005
Scott Korb: They are not running away. They are not rebelling. They may not actually know, or be able...

Not Much to Say

April 6, 2005
Reporters have been calling to find out what The Revealer has to say about the death of the pope. Not too...

Other People's Holidays

April 4, 2005
The San Antonio Express-News experiments with a new strategy for overthrowing the country’s secular overlords: make atheists look like a...

Last Papal Picture Show

April 2, 2005
Peter Manseau, author of the forthcoming Vows, a memoir of his Catholic priest father and his mother the nun, writes...

Convicted

April 1, 2005
Matthew Moran: “I looked at Mark and wondered silently. Wondered if we would be making proclamations about faith and new...

Same Old Disdain, Great New Flavor

March 30, 2005
We’ve been arguing with Caleb Stegall, an editor of our favorite small-o orthodox Christian website that likes to bash us, about...

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