From Marc Michael's "Is liberalism killing the copts?" at Al Jazeera: Imperial liberalism not only reinforced lines of fracture...

Amy Levin: You're in jail.  What will you eat on Thanksgiving day?  Most media coverage of religion in prison over...

By Andy Kopsa  Standing before a crowd of reporters at the Friar’s Club in New York, Sharon Bialek told her story. ...

Nora Connor:  Water cooler talk around The Revealer offices keeps circling back to human rights these days (yes, we...

Amy Levin: What would Muslim drag look like? Something like this? Yesterday, the AHA Foundation shared a...

Nora Connor:  For a time after 9/11, the FBI seemed to stand out among the many government agencies with...

Angela Zito:  The Bible as a book, printed, physically available for Christian devotion, remains a powerful and contested artifact...

Amy Levin: How long is it appropriate...

Our founding editor, Jeff Sharlet, has two new articles out on the Occupy Movement:  at Bookforum and at...

Nora Connor: We’ve been watching PBS’s “Women, War and Peace.” Less a series than a grouping of thematically linked films,...

Ashley Baxstrom: Apparently, the Roman Catholic Church is at risk of death by boredom. Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, President of the...

From Nidhal Guessoum's "New Media and Islam" at HuffPo: Similarly, the Los Angeles Times recently related the strong reactions expressed by...

Gordon Haber reviews two recent books about Scientology at Religion Dispatches, Janet Reitman's Inside Scientology and Hugh Urban's The...

A statement on the global economy by "a rather small office in the Roman Curia" is causing some...

Journalist or academic with a serious interest in prayer?  SSRC has your bag.  Click here to apply for...

Ashley Baxstrom: If you’re in New York (and if...

Laura Larson writes at States of Formation about the business of making monsters: Through political rhetoric and sensationalized reporting,...

Catch Diane Winston on Krista Tippett's "On Being."  She's talking about TV, storytelling, and faith. In his new book,...

Ashley Baxstrom: Step aside, Kardashian family. “Jersey Shore”? So last season. If you totally want to be...

Ashley Baxstrom: Maybe Presidential candidates Mitt Romney and Jon Huntsman haven’t yet convinced you that Mormons are cool? Perhaps...

Amy Levin: Last week, rushing through the Atlantic-Pacific terminal in Brooklyn, I passed my usual underground subway Jesus cheerleader,...

Ashley Baxstrom:  It’s hard out there for a protestor. Occupying Oakland? Get arrested. Occupying Wall Street? Also get arrested...

A review of David Halperin's Journal of a UFO Investigator (Viking, 2011) By David Metcalfe Riddles chased mysteries, were chased by enigmas,...

Remember Chick Tracts?  Here's a classic, dug out from the files by The Sensuous Curmudgeon.