Gregg Easterbrook writes: “I’ll tell you what shakes my belief. Not natural selection; not the evil and injustice of the...

The Revealer is delighted to announce that a radio show featuring two associates of the Center for Religion and Media — Ann Pellegrini and Janet...

David Klinghoffer writes erudite but peculiar books. In one, he recalled his teenage self-circumcision as part of a “conversion” experience...

Are evangelicals real, or just a story to scare the children of the Upper West Side? 60 Minutes ponders, Wonkette investigates. As it...

Every day for months now, some pundit, some critic, some tired Godbeat reporter looking for a brush with celebrity,...

Diane Winston cites scholar Richard Flory on the roots of the media’s problem with the “r” word: “In the early 20th century,...

The dead: “54 Indonesians, 36 Pakistanis, 13 Egyptians, 11 Turks, 11 Indians, 10 Algerians, 10 Bangladeshis, eight Sudanese, seven...

There’s a valuable comparison to be found by slogging through this week’s New Yorker lead story (print only), by the normally-astute Jon...

The New York Times reports today that what The Salvation Army is really all about (the New York division, at least) is,...

“Satanic hysteria” is such an interesting phrase, with so many possibilities. The coffee clerk who brought it up at...

There are two institutions in most towns of any size in the U.S. that invite people in to voluntarily...

The Revealer likes to harp on a theme, a rather vague notion of democratic religion writing — the sort practiced...

An exceptionally poor Associated Press report last week paired the news of a Catholic priest’s arrest in Ohio for growing pot with...

Brian Larkin, an anthropologist at Barnard College and a member of the Center for Religion and Media, writes The Revealer with this...

Follow your dreams” is a popular theme in teen magazines, but Brio, dedicated to “challenging teen girls toward a healthy...

The “Readings” section of the Harper’s February edition points The Revealer toward this peculiar prayer: Father God, we ask your blessings on our...

The Revealer is still sick. Check back tomorrow, please; and in the meantime, visit our friend Kathy Shaidle at Relapsed Catholic. Kathy was...

21 January 2004 Iviews offers Muslim news and analysis with a non-religious focus. The Islamic Broadcasting Network offers live and archived...

The Revealer has a fever today, so high I’ve been haunted by fever dreams of George W. Bush leading an orange-robed choir...

The markers that sustain religion — holidays — can make writing about it boring beyond belief, a truism of...

In the beginning, there was a “time of innocence.” Pam Shaw, one of a few thousand Eves, called it...

“In the sitting room of a flat in Bloomsbury, Geoffrey Kirk introduces himself jovially as the man who is going to...

The other day The Revealer was on a radio show with an otherwise very clever journalist who noted that far more...

It turned out a bit like Canterbury Tales — a motley assembly of true believers, kneeling drunkards, and ecstatic skeptics gathered...