Church of Fools

April 15, 2004
A reader writes: “Enough about Blogs already and enough about internet religion!! Another week of this and The Revealer will be...

The "Freedom" of "Religion"

April 14, 2004
A daily collage of religion in the news from the war.  “None of these acts is the work of a religion....

Is Kerry Catholic?

April 13, 2004
Melinda Henneberger launches a new column on “culture war” in Newsweek, “Varia,” with a response to the many, many, Catholics calling for John Kerry‘s head, or at least...
Review

The Second Coming of the Dawn of the Dead

April 12, 2004
Mel Gibson, wrote Chris Lehmann in reviewing The Passion for The Revealer, turned to the aesthetics of horror to spread his religion. Now Adam H. Becker explains...

Rara Politics

April 12, 2004
The New York Times’s Lydia Polgreen explores some of Haiti’s politics of religion in today’s story, “An Easter Voodoo Festival with Political Undertones.” Learn more...

A Guide for (and to) the Godless

April 9, 2004
Revealer associate editor Kathryn Joyce writes: Atheist-turned-Christian-scholar Alister McGrath has written a new book, The Twilight of Atheism: The Rise and Fall of Disbelief in...

The Difficulties of Genocide

April 9, 2004
On the tenth anniversary of the Rwandan genocide, Revealer editor Jeff Sharlet looks at the memorials and morality tales on offer...

What does the Mehdi Army Believe?

April 7, 2004
UPDATE: “River,” an Iraqi blogger, writes: “If the situation weren’t so frightening, it would almost be amusing to see Al-Hakeem and...

Magic Numbers

April 7, 2004
Just released: The Pew Internet and American Life Project‘s survey on “Faith Online.”We’re especially delighted to announce this goldmine of data...

Bloggercon Gets Religion

April 6, 2004
Jeff Sharlet, editor of The Revealer, writes: I’ll be moderating a discussion session on religion, spirituality, and God blogs at Bloggercon,...

The Dolorous Passion of South Park

April 5, 2004
Gut Pesach. Stewart M. Hoover writes from Colorado on last week’s already-legendary South Park episode, “The Passion of the Jew”. Stewart, a member...

Matzo Princess

April 5, 2004
“I tell people, ‘I wish I’d been an Entenmann,’ ” Michele Heilbrun, Streit’s Matzo heir, tells the NY Times‘ Corey Kilgannon. “Chocolate...

Only the Best

April 5, 2004
Ted Olsen at Christianity Today‘s weblog calls our attention to “one of the best religion cover stories [Time]—or any mainstream news...

jBlogs

April 4, 2004
Scholars, wonks, and rebbeles; mameles and makhers-in-their-own-minds; such are the denizens of jBlog (as the Jewish blogosphere is called)....

Sabbath Reading

April 4, 2004
Last Sunday, we wrote briefly about Peter Steinfels, a religion reporter at The New York Times and a popular pundit on things...

Where's the Why?

April 4, 2004
Why is the American press ignoring the role of religion in Iraq? The question bears that blunt a phrasing...

Muscular Christianity Flexes Again

April 3, 2004
Before there was Survivor, there was “The 700 Club.” In 1997, a small group of American missionaries was pinned down...

Godless

April 3, 2004
A few days after we built this page, Norwegianity wrote: “How do you tell if a website on religion is on...

Shabbat Reading

April 3, 2004
Shabbat reading below; but first, a scooped report: Is muscular Christianity entering a new weight class? Yes — and...

Lies We Tell Ourselves

April 1, 2004
Reader Christopher Bugbee writes in with a comment on Jack Kelley, the former USA Today star reporter recently revealed as a serial fabricator: Along...

"Incomprehensible"

April 1, 2004
A NEW DAILY FEATURE With only a few exceptions, the Western press and the elite Arab press are reporting...

Voodoo Postmortem

March 31, 2004
Revealer associate editor Kathryn Joyce writes: It’s more than an un-PC cliche. “‘Voodoo is part of Haitian politics,'” voodoo priest, Philippe Castera tells Marina Jimenez,...

The Passion of South Park

March 31, 2004
UPDATE: See Stewart M. Hoover‘s April 5th review of South Park‘s “The Passion of the Jew”: “The Dolorous Passion of Cartman.” Last...

Passion Prequel

March 31, 2004
We lied: Tonight’s South Park is not the last word on The Passion. Our friend John D. Spalding, author of A Pilgrim’s Digress, has just...

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