In the beginning, there was a “time of innocence.” Pam Shaw, one of a few thousand Eves, called it...

The other day The Revealer was on a radio show with an otherwise very clever journalist who noted that far more...

It turned out a bit like Canterbury Tales — a motley assembly of true believers, kneeling drunkards, and ecstatic skeptics gathered...

“Perhaps,” writes The Weekly Standard‘s Christopher Caldwell, “we assume too much in asserting that the open democratic republics of the West...

“The Death of the Book,” by S. David Marsh, is not, strictly speaking, a religion story. Yet by virtue of...

Ever since Bono showed pal Jesse Helms the light (or not), the formerly firebreathing senator has been on a crusade against AIDS. His conversion was nothing...

Hear The Revealer‘s Jeff Sharlet talk about religion writing and his new book, Killing the Buddha: A Heretic’s Bible, with co-author Peter Manseau and radio...

There was a time when Beliefnet.com, the 800-pound ecumenical guerilla of online religion, peddled itself with the slogan, “Because everyone...

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

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

The Revealer stopped by the website of Pan Gaia, a sort of thinking Pagan’s magazine, hoping to link to a fascinating...

Just as the Religion Newswriters Association declares Episcopalian Bishop Gene Robinson‘s consecration the number one religion story of the year, The New York Times weighs...