This essay from The Nation on “Obama and King” — which would have been better titled “Obama and the...

The Network of Enlightened Women (NEW) “defines what conservatism is,” a NEW leader tells Politico‘s Helena Andrews. Unfortunately, either...

Brad Greenberg, author of the L.A. Jewish Journal’s “God Blog,” points us to Kathleen Parker’s WaPo column in which...

No mainstream pundit has gotten Rick Warren’s Saddleback forum for the candidates more wrong than The New Yorker‘s usually astute...

Revealer Kathryn Joyce is filling in for invaluable Sarah Posner while she’s on vacation. Read Kathryn’s special edition of...

Sharlet: The liberal blogosphere will soon be a-twitter over James Dobson’s announcement that he’s reconsidering his once absolutist opposition...

Every now and then, two great faiths converge. Such meetings transcend the ecumenical impulse; indeed, they may lead to...

“The beacon of the Catholic church to immigrants has rarely shown more brilliantly” than in Postville, Iowa, writes Samuel...

Couldn’t resist:God arrested for selling cocaine.

The universe is in balance, George Carlin once said, because Jesus has a little statue of a middle-class American...

The NYT delivers news of The Shack, a gi-normous bestseller of a Christian novel, to the secular world, comparing...

Sharlet: I’ll be discussing my new book, The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power, on...

Big, big story missed by the press: Messengers to the Southern Baptist Convention’s annual meeting, held in Indianapolis, rejected...

Sharlet: WNYC’s Leonard Lopate and I discuss “maximalism,” cronyism, and The Family.

Time‘s Steven Gray follows up Obama’s decision to resign from Trinity United Church of Christ with what we think...

Jesse Sunenblick, a former Revealer, writes: “i know you’re probably sick of the subject, but you should write about this...

The Revealer failed to alert readers to what promised to be an excellent panel on “Blacks, Jews, and Post-Racial...

The collapse of John McCain’s relationship with Christian Right leader John Hagee made for minor news in the mainstream...

“The Betrayal of Judas” is the rare piece of journalism that sheds light on the secrets and lies of...

Sharlet: Veteran Christian Right-watcher Frederick Clarkson reviews The Family for The Public Eye, the publication of Political Research Associates,...

Cliff Schecter, an Ohio-based investigative reporter with a new book on “The Real McCain,” collects the candidate’s most egregious...

Richard Byrne in Bookforum: “The Family is classic muckraking: passionate, principled, and powerful.”

Contributing to the conservative drumbeat for war with Iran are the criers of “religious freedom,” who point, correctly, to...

Sharlet: Amanda Marcotte — the blogger behind Pandagon and author of It’s a Jungle Out There: The Feminist Survival...