What Rick Warren, a founder of modern advertising, and the dirtiest word in politics don't have in common. Adapted...

Sharlet: Mark Silk, an eminent scholar of religion, politics, and journalism, takes issue with my Casting Stones post...

Sharlet: Harper's editor Bill Wasik and I talk about The Family and how the article we collaborated on...

It looks like it's the end of the line for Clinton and the beginning of a new battle for...

"The Rebellion Within," Lawrence Wright's long New Yorker account of theological rifts between leading Islamist militants, defies easy summary....

"Sharlet is not an angry liberal and the tone of the book is balanced, reasonable and often good humoured."...

Sharlet: I've been cruising the airwaves to promote my new book, The Family, talking with a lot of great...

One of the few advantages of maintaining a blog about media and religion is that when a media heavyweight...

An excerpt from The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power (Harper), by Jeff Sharlet: He wandered...

Bruce Wilson's discovery of McCain endorser John Hagee's anti-Semitic rantings is a brilliant example of what bloggers are capable...

Diane Winston on The Family: "This book deserves to be read by every and any journalist. It's a primer...

Adapted from "Interesting Blood" in The Family for The New Republic.

Sharlet: Jonathan Schwarz at A Tiny Revolution makes a connection between the secrecy of The Family the subject...

Rob Boston, church/state separation activist and writer, caught a recent episode of Christian Right leader Janet Folger's "Faith2Action" radio...

The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints has created a blog, Captive FLDS Children.org, to...

Sociology and evangelical power -- NYU, Tuesday, April 29...

All of The Revealer's Norwegian readers will want to look at Tore Gjerstad's front pager from last week's Dagbladet...

Given that atheism's most visible champions are three smart boy writers -- Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens, and Richard Dawkins...

Nobody's doing a better job than The American Prospect's Sarah Posner at tracking the fault lines splitting the old...

Three powerful new essays from Revealer contributing editors look at the history, theory, and news of religion and media.

Jeff Sharlet: Daniel Radosh sucks one in this Bloggingheads "diavlog" -- a video blog conversation Daniel and I had...

Revealer SoCal: Make sure to catch Mark Dery's keynote address to the "Sacred and the Profane" conference at...

Fundamentalism loses its sway, even as politicians profess their faith. Let's ask them: how does God guide you, exactly?

Christian rocker Larry Norman moves on. By S. Brent Plate: The first album I ever bought was Larry Norman's Only...