Articles — The Revealer

Schooling Muslims in Northern Nigeria: Politics, Policies and Conclusions

June 6, 2012

by Alex Thurston Government-run Islamic schools, then, are to be a source of “counter-radicalization” as well as a means...

Atheism vs Religion: The Final Countdown?

June 6, 2012

What’s missing here, and in so many similar arguments, is that religion works.

He Winketh with His Eyes, He Speaketh with His Feet

June 4, 2012

Joe McKnight: Walter Wink was, among other things, an outspoken critic of the “biblically-based” homophobia that has long plagued...

Nigerian Universities: Islamic Studies in Secular Universities

June 4, 2012

By Alex Thurston Nigeria has around 100 universities, most of them public, and many public and private colleges. Various tertiary...

At the Heart of Societies

June 1, 2012

From Michel Foucault's The Subject and Power (1982)

Rumors of Liberation Theology's "Huge Influence" Are Greatly Exaggerated

May 31, 2012

Joe McKnight: Mark Oppenheimer’s explanation of liberation theology underscores the theology’s fundamental principles which are often wholly overlooked...

The Dalai Lama is Home

May 31, 2012

By Becky Rynor I was looking for the chink in that unfailingly optimistic armor, a moment of emotion from the...

Little Girls, Future Powerful Women

May 25, 2012

Mary Valle: Someone at UCSSB HQ has finally clicked on the links to anti-Girl Scout material on the web...

Legislating Holy Scripture in Ohio

May 24, 2012

Ashley Baxstrom: Ohio just keeps embarrassing the buckeye out of me (and that’s only...

Put on your Sunday (Law)suit

May 22, 2012

Ashley Baxstrom: In squint-at-the-screen-to-be-sure news, The Raw Story reports that a church in Oregon is suing a woman...

Trembling Before the Internet

May 18, 2012

From Zackery Sholem Berger's new article at Tablet, "Hasidic Writers, Plugged In": But there are also those who have...

America's Buddhist Sister Act

May 17, 2012

Ashley Baxstrom: In case you missed it - we’ve already covered that Catholic nuns are having a

Daily Links: "Which Reminds Me" Edition

May 16, 2012

Hear Kathryn Joyce, The Revealer's former managing editor, talk about personhood bills, the Quiverfull movement, and the patriarchy movement...

The Truth About "Jim Wallis"

May 15, 2012

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

Playing Amendment One

May 14, 2012

Becky Garrison on the political positions played by media, voters, advocates and the president on Amendment One.

"But Marriage is No Sacrament."

May 14, 2012

From Gary Wills' new article at New York Review of Books: The early church had no specific rite for...

Daily Links: What Social Contract? Edition

May 11, 2012

Jim Davis on the death of a predatory priest. Amy Levin on liberalism and feminism. The Immanent...

Wherever Two or More Women Are Gathered...

May 11, 2012

...the Catholic Church seems to find "radical feminist" ideology. Even if the gatherers are cookie-hawking tweens. And members of...

Preaching Out of the Closet

May 10, 2012

Amy Levin: It’s barely been a day and President Barack Obama’s personal endorsement (belief? affirmation? slow and agonizing...

Queer Methodist Doings

May 9, 2012

Becky Garrison: A Gallup poll released on May 20, 2011 states that for the first time a majority (53%) of...

Taboo Dinner Party Talk

May 8, 2012

Amy Levin: “Aren’t these topics the very ones your mother warned you never to raise at a dinner party?”...

His Holiness Gets Huffed

May 7, 2012

Ashley Baxstrom: The Huffington Post announced on Friday that its very own Arianna Huffington – the Post’s namesake? Editor? Aggregator...

Islam's Mighty Wind

May 4, 2012

From Peter Brown's review of the Met's "Byzantium and Islam: Age of Transition (7th-9th Century)," at The New...

The Fallen Catholic DeLillo