Relapsed Catholic

January 21, 2004
The Revealer is still sick. Check back tomorrow, please; and in the meantime, visit our friend Kathy Shaidle at Relapsed Catholic. Kathy was...

Fever

January 20, 2004
The Revealer has a fever today, so high I’ve been haunted by fever dreams of George W. Bush leading an orange-robed choir...

Priesthood of the Press

January 9, 2004
From Jay Rosen‘s “Journalism is Itself a Religion” — a new Revealer feature: What results from the “relative godlessness of mainstream journalists?” Or, in a more...

The Celibate Elephant

January 8, 2004
The Revealer welcomes guest commentator Peter Manseau, co-author of Killing the Buddha: A Heretic’s Bible and author of the forthcoming Vows: A Family...

Ultimate Concerns

January 7, 2004
Nicholas Kristof is at it again. Sometime in the last couple of years, The New York Times columnist found God. Not in...

Good Intentions

December 29, 2003
Buried in the Christmas edition of The New York Times was a story that might be characterized as the religion reporter’s...

Open and Closed

December 22, 2003
“Only nine people are in church tonight, and all but two of us have come alone. As we sing...

Civil War?

December 17, 2003
Albany; Pittsburgh; San Joaquin; South Carolina; Florida, Central Florida, and Southwest Florida; Dallas and Fort Worth; Quincy and Springfield...

"Like Moby-Dick Without the Whale"

December 9, 2003
Such is any attempt to talk about the whole of American history without talking about Jonathan Edwards, according to historian George...

Hellmouth

December 4, 2003
Just after the war in Bosnia, a priest showed Rose Marie Berger a cross erected on a hillside. One side depicted...

The Oozing Church

December 1, 2003
“A few years back,” writes Alan Rifkin in The Los Angeles Times Magazine, “a mentally ill man wandered on the campus [of Fuller...

God's Gay Marriage

November 22, 2003
When The New York Times delivers a sermon, it’s usually of the secular variety, which is why it comes as a...

Quaking

November 20, 2003
Do Quakers have a constitutional right to quiet? That they do is the argument of a group of Friends,...

"Europe is No Longer Christian"

October 13, 2003
Today’s New York Times features a front-pager on the decline of institutional religion in Europe by Frank Bruni. Running for a full...

An American Pope?

October 3, 2003
Should Gray Davis be allowed to take communion? Some conservative Roman Catholic leaders say no, but not because they’re...

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