The Lost Twin

November 24, 2008
There's the ghost of a religion story in most memorials, and so it is with Jonathan Taylor's concise account...

Making Whoopee With the NYT

November 24, 2008
A Texas megachurch pastor offers advice on “how to move from whining about the economy to whoopee!” Gretel Kovach...

Waiting for Lefty

November 20, 2008
Too many of the recent books about the Religious Left declare easy victory, the triumph of modest faith and...

Who You Callin' Conservative?

November 17, 2008
Sharlet: D. Michael Lindsay, author of Faith in the Halls of Power, offers this helpful corrective to a

God Bless Dolly Parton

November 17, 2008
Sharlet: I recently met an activist and memoirist named Michael Patrick McDonald, who for his second book, Easter...

The Making of a Yiddish Translator

November 15, 2008
Introducing... Revealer fiction. Relax, fact fans, The Revealer isn't about to go all literary on you. But longtime Revealer...

11 Little Missionaries

November 14, 2008
Sharlet: One of the upcoming books I'm most excited about is Quiverfull: Inside the Christian Patriarchy Movement, by former...

Haggard Speaks

November 13, 2008
Preaching two years after his downfall following the disclosure of drug use and a long-standing relationship with a male...

Who Will Lead Them?

November 12, 2008
Jason C. Bivins, author of The Religion of Fear: The Politics of Horror in Conservative Evangelicalism, and D....

The One (and Another One)

October 28, 2008
In his NYT column, Milton scholar Stanley Fish offers the first Obama/Jesus comparison that actually makes sense. Meanwhile, NYT’s...

Palin: Reagan Invented San Francisco

October 3, 2008
Plenty of pundits pounced on Palin’s resurrection of failed Civil War general George McClellan in last night’s debate (apparently,...
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Biblical Capitalism

October 2, 2008
Only months ago, what scant attention the press paid to fundamentalism in American life was dedicated to declaring the...

Submersion Journalism

September 16, 2008
Upcoming events: Submersion Journalism, Ten Minutes of Palinology.

Palinology

September 16, 2008
Will McCain’s Palin pick revive his once-high hopes of winning Latino votes? Will mainstream media be able to comprehend...

Private Conversation

September 12, 2008
Sharlet: I'm using the thinnest of threads to tie my friend Kio's new blog, Municipal Archive, to The...

Just When You Thought It Was Over

September 10, 2008
“As the Bush era comes to a fitful close, and the American presidential elections approach, the Christian evangelical movement...

Holy Ghost Hustle

September 10, 2008
There is no news, scholarly, or artistic value in this link. Just a glorious example of fundamentalist funk, Holy...
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Songs for the Butcher's Daughter

September 10, 2008
A review of and excerpt from the best Jewish novel of the year, by Revealer contributing editor Peter Manseau Peter...

Go Ask Sarah

September 10, 2008
ABC reports that two of the books Palin’s church allies in Wasilla may have singled out for censorship are...

We Can't All Be Queen

September 9, 2008
Evangelical Palin’s fans are comparing the governor to the biblical Queen Esther, whom her pastor said Palin took as...

McCain Isn't a Made Man Yet

September 9, 2008
The Family Research Council — Washington’s one-stop lobby shop for all things fundamentalist — is warning McCain that picking...

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