Stuart Klawans identifies the plot twist that makes There Will Be Blood seem both relevant to the present moment...

"It reminds me of the Catholic Church in the Middle Ages, when we had indulgences." -- Republican leader John...

It's important to state right off that nothing in Rich Cohen's WaPo column on Obama and Louis Farrakhan...

Sharlet: I opened the latest New York Review of Books looking forward to the great Garry Wills on "Romney...

Will the uneasy merger of church and state known as faith-based initiatives survive into the next administration? A Pew...

After Obama's win in Iowa, we waited eagerly for the poll numbers revealing the depth of his white evangelical...

If the Iowa results prove anything, it's that religion isn't leaving the public square when W. rides home to...

The Revealer is back -- almost. While you wait, read the latest from Chris Lehmann, "Pentecostalism for the...

Now in bookstores! The Faith Between Us: A Jew and a Catholic Search for the Meaning of God,...

Jeff Sharlet: Revealer contributing editor S. Brent Plate writes, "From stone tablets to scrolls, printing presses to the Internet,...

The image of Jesus and the Buddha dancing together in a living room is just one of several images...

Jeff Sharlet: With "The Evangelical Crack-Up," New York Times conservative beat reporter David D. Kirkpatrick's nearly 8,000-word cover...

Beliefnet's "Blogalogue" on "Evangelicals in Power" continues: Tthe language of sin and evil, anyway, which, depending on how it's...

Sharlet: This Sunday, October 21, I'll be delivering "The Carl Lecture" at the United Methodist Church in one...

Sharlet: Laurie Goodstein's NYT Week in Review essay this past Sunday, "For a Trusty Voting Bloc, Faith Shaken,"...

In "Onward Chrisian Scholars," (NYT Magazine, 9/30), Molly Worthen profiles New St. Andrew's College in Moscow, Idaho. It's...

On the anniversary of the Birmingham Church Bombing, Ashley Makar listens to the voice of the killer.

In which The Revealer's summer absence is explained and its future presence pondered.

For 15 years, Hillary Clinton has been part of a secretive religious group that seeks to bring Jesus back...

Peter Manseau goes behind the news of the recent Turkish elections on the newly-resurrected Killing the Buddha: "The...

In a time when much of the media is writing the Christian Right's obituary for the umpteenth time, Christians...

Jeff SharletWhy are we so obsessed with the apocalypse? By "we", I don't mean those of us who actually...

Sharlet: Revealer contributing editor S. Brent Plate sent in the following commentary on Vanity Fair's special July issue dedicated...

Sharlet: From my latest story in Rolling Stone: "As night settles between the two mountain ridges that rise on...