“I break so many taboos when I become a suicide bomber…. I think this nihilism is very new. It’s...

At Eichler’s bookstore in Flatbush (that’s in Brooklyn, folks), Marc Shapiro‘s new book has been flying off the shelves; at...

God has spoken: “George Bush is going to win in a walk,” says the Lord (via mouthpiece Pat Robertson), “… it...

St. Blog’s Parish, the Catholic blogosphere that’s rapidly displacing the Catholic print press, is something of a moveable feast....

Two Unitarian ministers in upstate New York have become the first clergy members to face criminal charges for performing...

Last year, four days before the U.S. invasion of Iraq, the International Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention issued a...

We almost called The Revealer “God Beat,” and thank God we didn’t — the more time we’ve spent studying religion in...

Brian Flemming is the man behind Bat Boy: The Musical, and his blog is everything you’d expect from a man with...

Librarian Rachelle Linner explores the Roman Catholic blogosphere — “St. Blog’s Parish,” as it’s known — and finds it wanting. “The clearest...

“Meet the new face of intolerance,” writes The Wall Street Journal editorial page, and guess who the Journal‘s talking about? The “left”...

USA Weekend‘s cover feature on five soldiers and how their service in Iraq has strengthened their faith is doubleplusgood propaganda,...

The FCC has run Jesus Christ out off South Park, The Comedy Channel’s lovable mountain town of foul-mouthed little assholes. Oops! We mean “butt-holes.” Broadcasting...

Nextbook.org, a Jewish literature site, points the way to “The Mother Tongue Between Two Slices of Rye,” an essay by novelist Gary...

Here at The Revealer, we’re intrigued by the way religions and “spiritualities” appeal, sell, and/or market themselves to followers, or...

Sometimes an ice storm is just an ice storm; but sometimes, as in Barbara Nicolosi‘s exegesis of Ang Lee‘s film of Rick Moody‘s novel The...

Whether or not The Passion is anti-Semitic remains open to debate; but the question of whether it enflames anti-Semitic sentiments can...

Late breaking Passion news from the Jewish Forward: “Emotions in the auditorium became so intense that during the crucifixion scene,...

In our haste to bring you Chris Lehmann‘s powerful new feature on the visual sins of The Passion, The Revealer committed numerous sins...

You’ve seen The Passion of The Christ so many times now you can sing along to all the songs, and you’re...

From Caleb Crain‘s review of Richard Wightman Fox‘s Jesus in America in The New York Times a few weeks ago: “Artists of existential anxiety, the...

Another smart review of The Passion can be found in The Nation, wherein Stuart Klawans weighs Gibson’s marketing and moviemaking skills: “Beyond my parochial squeamishness...