Noah Feldman‘s carefully-reasoned essay on the church/state dilemma of American politics, excerpted from his new book, Divided by God:...

Sharlet: This fall, I’ll be teaching The Revealer as a text and as an assignment for a group of...

Confusing news from the Jewish Forward: the National Association of Evangelicals is set to announce a new, more pro-Palestinian...

30 June 2005 Southern Baptist Big Ponders the Young and the Sexless By Jeff Sharlet R. Albert Mohler, Jr.,...

Night Train to Marrakech Reza Aslan on the clash of monotheisms as seen from the cramped quarters of a sleeper car....

Not Another “Beliefs” Column Diane Winston’s occasional column on the gods of Los Angeles in The L.A. Times continues to besubtly...

Christianity Today, the flagship magazine of conservative American evangelicalism,editorializes “the obvious”: George W. Bush is not Lord, and “God...

Miracle Meter Former Revealer Kathryn Joyce calls our attention to this startling “miracle” news:Ethiopian lions with feminist tendencies rescue 12-year-old girl from...

Fantastic Iraq 1,001 Nights in Iraq: Fantasy space stations and the “Book of Dragons” and Magic playing cards, amazing...

You Get the Gods You Deserve Matt Taibbi as Jeremiah, with new Lamentations for the present moment: “America is dying. You could...

Democrats and Gothics 17 June 2005 In a forthright 16-year-old girl from Queens, writes the NYT‘s Nina Bernstein, the FBI “met...

Eat God Now Our favorite kind of religion is the kind you can eat. “And then God revealed to...

I’m Ok, The Pope’s Ok Ann Rodgers, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette‘s smart religion reporter, wrote yesterday thatPope Benedict XVI is proving less...

Ann Rodgers, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette‘s smart religion reporter, wrote yesterday that Pope Benedict XVI is proving less conservative than expected. But the...

The Yenta What Schooled Her Sharlet: In a few weeks I head up to Boston to answer a few...

Making Torture Beautiful 11 June 2005 by Jeff Sharlet In 1989, Andres Serrano dunked a crucifix in a vat...

The Church of No Questions How do you get shown the door at one of America’s most powerful megachurches?...

There’s just no good term for the cultural movement and political force variously referred to as the “Christian Right,”...

Blogger Slacktivist takes one sentence from Pastor Ted Haggard, president of the National Association of Evangelicals — “They’re pro-free...

Jeff Sharlet: Harper’s has posted the entirety of my feature from its May issue, “Soldiers of Christ: Inside America’s...

Who Will Cry For a Witch? Lilith Saintcrow of God and Consequences reveals, with the help of the Indianapolis...