Guns n' God

July 13, 2008
Every now and then, two great faiths converge. Such meetings transcend the ecumenical impulse; indeed, they may lead to...

Prepare for the Awesoming!

July 11, 2008
Awesomed By Comics isn't, technically, about religion. It's about comics. Totally awesome comics. Not so much the kind of...

July 2, 2008
Couldn’t resist:God arrested for selling cocaine.

Jewish Anarchists

June 28, 2008
In the late 19th century, the biggest political movement in Jewish America was anarchism, equally opposed to church and...

Mystical Realism

June 24, 2008
The NYT delivers news of The Shack, a gi-normous bestseller of a Christian novel, to the secular world, comparing...

The Diane Rehm Show

June 24, 2008
Sharlet: I’ll be discussing my new book, The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power, on...

The 'F' Word

June 14, 2008
What Rick Warren, a founder of modern advertising, and the dirtiest word in politics don't have in common. Adapted...

Big Baptist Blowout! Little Press.

June 13, 2008
Big, big story missed by the press: Messengers to the Southern Baptist Convention’s annual meeting, held in Indianapolis, rejected...

Bomb Throwers and Hall Monitors

June 4, 2008
Sharlet: Mark Silk, an eminent scholar of religion, politics, and journalism, takes issue with my Casting Stones post...

Apocalypse Savings

June 3, 2008
"The mind is capable of artful compartmentalisations; in one moment, a man might confidently believe in predictions of Armageddon...

Machine Politics

June 3, 2008
Sharlet: WNYC’s Leonard Lopate and I discuss “maximalism,” cronyism, and The Family.

Obama's Exorcism

June 3, 2008
It looks like it's the end of the line for Clinton and the beginning of a new battle for...

What's Next, L'il Buddy?

June 2, 2008
Time‘s Steven Gray follows up Obama’s decision to resign from Trinity United Church of Christ with what we think...

This Guy!

June 2, 2008
Jesse Sunenblick, a former Revealer, writes: “i know you’re probably sick of the subject, but you should write about this...

We're All Gay Episcopalians Now

June 2, 2008
There's some irony in an Episcopalian informing us that the concerns of the Anglican Communion, which has in the...

Blacks, Jews, and Obama

May 31, 2008
The Revealer failed to alert readers to what promised to be an excellent panel on “Blacks, Jews, and Post-Racial...

The Rebellion Within

May 31, 2008
"The Rebellion Within," Lawrence Wright's long New Yorker account of theological rifts between leading Islamist militants, defies easy summary....

Blog v. Preacher

May 31, 2008
The collapse of John McCain’s relationship with Christian Right leader John Hagee made for minor news in the mainstream...

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