Marketing God, Part II

March 9, 2004
The Revealer’s latest original feature, “Picturing The Passion,” by Chris Lehmann, is the second installment of his series on the Marketing of God. Lehmann,...

Jeff Sharlet WAMC Albany Radio

March 8, 2004
The Revealer‘s Jeff Sharlet will be talking on religion and the way it gets written about at 11 am, eastern time, on “Roundtable,”...

Evangelical Borg

March 8, 2004
Two features on the growing strength of evangelical Christians reveal the stagnation of the press’s understanding of the breadth...

The God-Plus Beat

March 8, 2004
Aha — now we know why David Kirkpatrick (see “Evangelical Borg”) extracted such a one-note article out of the curiousity (to say...

Public Confessions

March 6, 2004
Should politicos confess their faith in public? Buried in The Washington Post‘s metro section are a series of colorfully-phrased answers...

Faith-Based Bribery

March 5, 2004
President Bush is reminding his base — and liberal religious activists who could provide swing votes — of FBI, his faith-based initiative...

Jesus Lab

March 5, 2004
Q. What guides Bush‘s science policies, politics or science? A. Jesus. That is, if we take Bush’s testimonies of faith seriously....

Iraqi Hearts & Minds

March 4, 2004
For some reason, the “language pack installation” box pops up when we open this sop for the faithful by James G. Lakely in...

Shockwave Teen Prayer Warriors

March 4, 2004
A new original feature on The Revealer: “Shockwave,” by Elizabeth A. Castelli. Castelli, a visiting fellow at New York University’s Center for...

Mel Gibson's Baby

March 3, 2004
Mel Gibson defines evil for Christianity Today‘s Mark Moring: “taking something that’s good and twisting it a little bit.” Well, if you say...

Gay Marriage, This Instant

March 3, 2004
Writing about the fight for — or against — gay marriage means writing about religion. Yet most of the...

Holidays in Haiti

March 3, 2004
With John Kerry‘s hair looming large on the newscape, Haiti has been returned to its “place” in the hierarchy of...

Unvarnished Love

March 3, 2004
Virginia Postrel has cut through much of the noise of the gay marriage debate by publishing on Dynamist a letter, with pictures,...

Ruth, Revealed

March 3, 2004
The Revealer will be practicing a different kind of religion journalism, in person, at the JCC of Manhattan on Thursday, March 4,...

The Voodoo Question

March 2, 2004
Most of the mainstream press has covered the violence in Haiti as if just learning about the country for...

God for Prez

March 2, 2004
“Really quick, is God on America’s side?” Don’t worry — it’s a rhetorical question. At least, it is when The...

Everyone's a Critic

March 2, 2004
New: The Revealer presents a set of sorta-secular links to mainstream media criticism. Recommendations welcome.

Quindlen in the Middle

March 2, 2004
Anna Quindlen‘s latest Newsweek column is as earnest as ever, but there’s a refreshing edge brought on by a letter writer’s assumption that...

To Be or Not to Be

March 1, 2004
Iraq’s U.S.-appointed Governing Council has agreed on the principle of a federalist constitution, reports Al Jazeera. “Islam will be the official religion of the...

God's Strawberry

March 1, 2004
The Revealer wishes there was more good religion/sports coverage. As it is, we have to settle for strange little scraps...

Cookie Monsters

March 1, 2004
There’s an intriguing round-up of sources at Christianity Today on news out of Texas that the baby-killing Bluebonnet Council of Girl Scouts has...

Minor Quibbles

February 27, 2004
A new BBC poll gives the lie to the oft-repeated notion that the U.S. is the most religious country in the world. Turns...

Into The Darkness

February 27, 2004
Religion writers will be familiar with the Catholic Church’s more nuanced attempts to spin the news of its American...

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