Articles — The Revealer

In Jesus' Name - Right Hook!

June 20, 2012

By Ashley Baxstrom The first rule of Fight Club is, you do not talk about Fight Club. The second...

Atheism vs Religion: The Final Countdown?

June 6, 2012

What’s missing here, and in so many similar arguments, is that religion works.

Rumors of Liberation Theology's "Huge Influence" Are Greatly Exaggerated

May 31, 2012

Joe McKnight: Mark Oppenheimer’s explanation of liberation theology underscores the theology’s fundamental principles which are often wholly overlooked...

Little Girls, Future Powerful Women

May 25, 2012

Mary Valle: Someone at UCSSB HQ has finally clicked on the links to anti-Girl Scout material on the web...

Legislating Holy Scripture in Ohio

May 24, 2012

Ashley Baxstrom: Ohio just keeps embarrassing the buckeye out of me (and that’s only...

Put on your Sunday (Law)suit

May 22, 2012

Ashley Baxstrom: In squint-at-the-screen-to-be-sure news, The Raw Story reports that a church in Oregon is suing a woman...

Feature, Review

Perverse Mission? Catholic Approaches to Foreign Policy

May 21, 2012

Reverse Mission: Transnational Religious Communities and the Making of US Foreign Policy By Timothy Byrnes. Georgetown University Press, 2001. 216 pp. by Frances...

America's Buddhist Sister Act

May 17, 2012

Ashley Baxstrom: In case you missed it - we’ve already covered that Catholic nuns are having a

Daily Links: "Which Reminds Me" Edition

May 16, 2012

Hear Kathryn Joyce, The Revealer's former managing editor, talk about personhood bills, the Quiverfull movement, and the patriarchy movement...

Playing Amendment One

May 14, 2012

Becky Garrison on the political positions played by media, voters, advocates and the president on Amendment One.

Daily Links: What Social Contract? Edition

May 11, 2012

Jim Davis on the death of a predatory priest. Amy Levin on liberalism and feminism. The Immanent...

Wherever Two or More Women Are Gathered...

May 11, 2012

...the Catholic Church seems to find "radical feminist" ideology. Even if the gatherers are cookie-hawking tweens. And members of...

Queer Methodist Doings

May 9, 2012

Becky Garrison: A Gallup poll released on May 20, 2011 states that for the first time a majority (53%) of...

His Holiness Gets Huffed

May 7, 2012

Ashley Baxstrom: The Huffington Post announced on Friday that its very own Arianna Huffington – the Post’s namesake? Editor? Aggregator...

Daily Links: Grand Jury Duty Blues

May 4, 2012

I'm three weeks down, one to go. Serving justice in Brooklyn has kept me quiet, but here's what I'm...

Daily Links: Politic Poles Edition

April 3, 2012

Schiavo, Beinart, Stem Cells, NOM, and CSW!

Daily Links: "We Should All Get To Do What We Want To" Edition

March 2, 2012

This week the Texas Association of Private and Parochial Schools denied an appeal by a Jewish Orthodox school team...

Tying Knots

February 16, 2012

Becky Garrison: In the battle for marriage equality, a federal appeals court and the Washington State legislature delivered both a...

The Gospel of Sacred Candy Hearts

February 14, 2012

By Amy Levin Did Santa bring me a boyfriend this year? Smooches for all red, juicy collagen-chocolate filled lips. This...

A Red Bagel

February 13, 2012

By Adam H. Becker When I was little my mother would get me a red bagel on Valentine's Day and...

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