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The press played Obama's convention speech as MLK's dream fulfilled. A careful reading reveals the dream deferred. Obama's theological...

Leftist and liberal bloggers have been raising questions about possible connections between Sarah Palin's churches and a fundamentalist charismatic...

Sharlet: Little did I know that my recent book, The Family, was a sort of sequel to Upton Sinclair's...

Jeff Sharlet: There aren't a lot of readers out there who'll be intrigued by the news that Library...

''If you read a lot of Holocaust literature, all survivor stories are miraculous," says Jane Daniel, publisher of yet...

Why didn't anyone think of this before? NYT Pulitzer Prize winning science reporter Amy Harmon follows evolution into a...

Meanwhile, news of why Chinese authorities arrested NYC graffitti artist James Powderly in Beijing: this electric banner. Brought...

Who doesn't want to read Heavy Metal Islam, a new book by UC Irvine scholar Mark LeVine on...

Killing the Buddha.com -- god for the godless, cheaper than church, Allah in the family -- rises from...

And Family news.

Sharlet: Bob Smietana, religion reporter for the Tennessean and occasional Revealer contributor, responds to my Friday post on...

What Rick Warren, a founder of modern advertising, and the dirtiest word in politics don't have in common. Adapted...

Sharlet: Mark Silk, an eminent scholar of religion, politics, and journalism, takes issue with my Casting Stones post...

Sharlet: Harper's editor Bill Wasik and I talk about The Family and how the article we collaborated on...

It looks like it's the end of the line for Clinton and the beginning of a new battle for...

"The Rebellion Within," Lawrence Wright's long New Yorker account of theological rifts between leading Islamist militants, defies easy summary....

"Sharlet is not an angry liberal and the tone of the book is balanced, reasonable and often good humoured."...

Sharlet: I've been cruising the airwaves to promote my new book, The Family, talking with a lot of great...

One of the few advantages of maintaining a blog about media and religion is that when a media heavyweight...

An excerpt from The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power (Harper), by Jeff Sharlet: He wandered...

Bruce Wilson's discovery of McCain endorser John Hagee's anti-Semitic rantings is a brilliant example of what bloggers are capable...

Diane Winston on The Family: "This book deserves to be read by every and any journalist. It's a primer...

Adapted from "Interesting Blood" in The Family for The New Republic.