My Bible, My Buffalo

February 22, 2008
Brett Grainger's Plymouth Brethren family revered manual labor and looked on books other than the Bible with mild...

Don't Make the South Rise Again

February 20, 2008
Jeff Sharlet: One of the best magazines around, Oxford American -- a glossy quarterly dedicated to writing about the...

The Party Faithful

February 19, 2008
Amy Sullivan is one of the most thoughtful champion of "faith-based Democrats," a growing wing of the party that...

Prophets of Moderation

February 15, 2008
Diane Winston likes The Atlantic's new religion issue. (Worst coverline ever: "Which Religion Will Win?") We do, too,...

Missing: The "Right" Babies

February 15, 2008
Christian conservatives predict a looming catastrophe as birthrates fall in Europe and Muslim immigration rises. Kathryn Joyce reports.

Gimme Shelter

February 8, 2008
"Gimme Shelter," Sasha Abramsky's report in The Nation on the "New Sanctuary Movement" -- a formalized network of houses...

Religion Dispatches

February 7, 2008
New on the gods beat: Religion Dispatches, created by two religious studies scholars, Gary Laderman of Emory and...

Let There Be Light Crude

February 4, 2008
Lest anyone accuse Paul Thomas Anderson of going over the top in his juxtaposition of God and oil in...

The Party Faithful

February 4, 2008
Amy Sullivan, "Nation" editor for Time and a friend of The Revealer, is coming out with her first book,...

The Washington Independent

January 28, 2008
Leftist bloggers call the brand-new Washington Independent a "progressive Politico," but from day one (or month one, anyway; the...

There Will Be Oil

January 20, 2008
Stuart Klawans identifies the plot twist that makes There Will Be Blood seem both relevant to the present moment...

Cafeteria Catholicism

January 18, 2008
"It reminds me of the Catholic Church in the Middle Ages, when we had indulgences." -- Republican leader John...

Faith-Based Candidates

January 14, 2008
Will the uneasy merger of church and state known as faith-based initiatives survive into the next administration? A Pew...

Count 'Em

January 13, 2008
After Obama's win in Iowa, we waited eagerly for the poll numbers revealing the depth of his white evangelical...

Holy Iowa!

January 3, 2008
If the Iowa results prove anything, it's that religion isn't leaving the public square when W. rides home to...

Pentecostalism for the Exurbs

January 2, 2008
The Revealer is back -- almost. While you wait, read the latest from Chris Lehmann, "Pentecostalism for the...

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