In Defense of Relativism

February 3, 2006
03 February 2006 Austin Dacey, in one half of a pair of New York Times op-ed responses to Pope Benedict XVI’s new God-is-Love...

Middle God

February 2, 2006
02 February 2006 The Washington Post’s Peter Slevin profiles John Danforth, Episcopal priest, former senator, and current naysayer to the Christian right....

Evolution Sunday

February 2, 2006
02 February 2006 Superbowl Sunday, Justice Sunday — when o when will the evolutionist Christians have a Sunday of...
Feature

Sam Brownback Is A Fruit

February 2, 2006
02 February 2006 On biblical literacy, bigotry, the price of grain, real estate in Tbilisi, free market cheetahs, and...

U.K. Religious Hatred Bill Fails

February 1, 2006
01 February 2006 Britain’s “religious hatred bill,” which has been criticized for over a year by an unlikely coalition...

Religion-Free Alito

February 1, 2006
01 February 2006 David Waters of The Scripps Howard News Service defends blind, religion-free reporting when it comes to the confirmation...

Banning Contempt

February 1, 2006
01 February 2006 Jyllands-Posten, the Danish newspaper which prompted world-wide Muslim protests after publishing cartoons criticized as blasphemous, in which the...

How to Read the Bible

January 31, 2006
31 January 2006 Marc Zvi Brettler, Brandeis University professor of biblical literature and author of How to Read the Bible,...

Evangelical Branches

January 31, 2006
31 January 2006 The Los Angeles Times recycles an old, and never very fresh story-line — evangelicals are “branching out”...

Religious Freedom in Romania

January 31, 2006
31 January 2006 Forum 18 reports that a controversial Romanian religion bill set for debate tomorrow has minority religious groups (including evangelicals,...

Waiting for John Frum

January 31, 2006
31 January 2006 The Washington Post’s Peter Carlson previews the Smithsonian’s report on John Frum Day, the high holy day of one...

"More Jewish" Gentiles

January 30, 2006
30 January 2006 Orthodox Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein, a veteran of efforts to bring evangelicals and Jews together over Israeli issues, continued...

Polite Sharia

January 30, 2006
30 January 2006 For liberal Palestinians fearful that the newly-elected Hamas party intends to enforce Islamic law on the...

Refusal Legislation

January 30, 2006
30 January 2006 Rob Stein, of The Washington Post, tallies the number of “conscience clause” bills under consideration in more...

The AIDS Aid Money Trail

January 30, 2006
30 January 2006 Nearly a quarter of President Bush’s $15 billion HIV/AIDS program is earmarked for faith-based groups, with...

Brand Name Buddhism

January 29, 2006
29 January 2006 Melissa Benner eats Tet and keeps clean in Vietnam, where detergent commercials blendBuddhism and advertising.

Wingspread Declaration

January 27, 2006
27 January 2006 Scott Jaschik from Inside Higher Ed reports on “The Wingspread Declaration on Religion and Public Life: Engaging Higher...

"God is Love (Homosexuality is Not)"

January 26, 2006
26 January 2006 Everybody knows that NYT reporters just want people to be nice, and Ian Fisher proves that today by cooing...
Review

Half/Life: Jew-Ish Tales

January 26, 2006
26 January 2006 Sharlet: Publishers Weekly reviews Revealer contributor Laurel Snyder‘s new edited volume, Half/Life: Jew-Ish Tales From Interfaith Homes.”‘Half’ is an interesting, incorrigible, perplexing...

One-Love

January 26, 2006
26 January 2006 Senator Sam Brownback’s democracy: “‘This, [he says,] being senator, running for president, waving the flag of...

Rise Up, Rich Men and Soldiers!

January 24, 2006
24 January 2006 Pity the poor New York Times, struggling to cover foreign affairs as best it can absent serious discussion of...

Wayward Evangelical Soldiers

January 24, 2006
24 January 2006 Religion professor and author of The Beloved Community: How Faith Shapes Social Justice, From the Civil Rights...

R-Rated Religion

January 24, 2006
24 January 2006 The ultra-conservative (but not actually secretive) Catholic group, Opus Dei is calling for the film adaptation...

Salt Lake Evolution

January 23, 2006
23 January 2006 The Utah Senate initially approved a bill last Friday that would make public school teachers include anti-evolution caveats...

discover more

Explore 21 years and 4,096 articles of

The Revealer

discover more