Making it in America: We received an unusual artifact of religious media in the mail today — a stealth...

“Casimir Pulaski Day” Lyrics by Sufjan Stevens from his forthcoming album, Come On Feel the Illinoise Goldenrod and the...

Prayer Muckraker: Terry Heaton inteviews evangelical leader Brian McLaren on postmodernism, post-colonialism, and what might be called muckraking prayer:...

“If it’s warm and it’s damp and it vibrates you might, in fact, have sex with it.” — anti-abortion...

Revealer contributor Holly Berman writes: The New York Times series on class, launched with a statistically compelling, if bloodless,...

“If it’s warm and it’s damp and it vibrates you might, in fact, have sex with it.” — anti-abortion...

What does the NYTimes‘ Elisabeth Bumiller do when presented with a story that reveals cracks in the Christian right? Why, she calls Jim...

Episcopal Smackdown!: Is Lauren Winner‘s new book on Real Sex (spoiler: only hetero, married whoopee) actually creeping fundamentalism? Astrid...

Sharlet: Spent the morning in an interview with Matthew Wells, a BBC radio reporter who’s been working the evangelical...

A fine example of the uncritical approach the mainstream press takes to most religion stories can be found in...

Everything but the longing: Peter Bebergal: “I have begun collecting psychedelic music again, almost twenty years after I traded...

The Revealer is taking a blogging break (back next week), and we won’t be Pew-fueled in the future — but...

Our Reformation: The Revealer is taking a blogging break (back next week), and we won’t be Pew-fueled in the...

Jonathan Edwards and the Making of America By Jeff Sharlet Benjamin Franklin has of late been enjoying some of...

John Tierney throws some red meat to the mythical red states in his (relatively) new NYT column. Today’s is...

Jeff Sharlet: The Revealer will be taking a short break from blogging for a few weeks, but we’ll continue...

Bartholomew reads Agape Press so you don’t have to, and returns to the world with news of the weird...

Ken Leavitt-Lawrence channels Stephen Hawking for a comic book/gangsta rap music video showdown with "The Fundamentalist" and his henchmen,...

Kate Hawley: When a salt stain on the wall of a Chicago underpass began to gain credence as miraculous...

Speaking at an American Studies conference about “Politics and Religion in USA” at an Islamabad university, Deputy Chief of...

Revealer editor Jeff Sharlet discusses his cover story from the May issue of Harper’s, “Soldiers of Christ: Inside America’s Most Powerful Megachurch,” tonight...

“‘The flogger, with each lash of the whip,'” says Master Skip, a man of God and leather, “‘has one...

Mainline Protestants fight back: NYT “conservative beat” reporter David D. Kirkpatrick, with Sheryl Gay Stolberg, bring us signs of a liberal Christianity gearing...

“Moonie” mass marriages are legend; but what about the consumation? Yolanda Elise Brener recalls her days of passion and holy handkerchiefs with her...