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...

Judas Lies

May 30, 2008
“The Betrayal of Judas” is the rare piece of journalism that sheds light on the secrets and lies of...

"Can I Borrow A Feelin'?"

May 30, 2008
We're using the inclusion of numerous Christian music album covers in the Florida Sun-Sentinel's fabulous collection of the worst...

Down Under, I'm Not Angry

May 30, 2008
"Sharlet is not an angry liberal and the tone of the book is balanced, reasonable and often good humoured."...

Fantastic Elastic Fundamentalism

May 30, 2008
Sharlet: Veteran Christian Right-watcher Frederick Clarkson reviews The Family for The Public Eye, the publication of Political Research Associates,...

McCain's Islam

May 30, 2008
Cliff Schecter, an Ohio-based investigative reporter with a new book on “The Real McCain,” collects the candidate’s most egregious...

Beyond Belief

May 29, 2008
Founder porn: a fetishistic fascination with the behind-the-scenes, under-the-covers, shifting whimsy of a group of men who set down...

Classic Muckraking

May 29, 2008
Richard Byrne in Bookforum: “The Family is classic muckraking: passionate, principled, and powerful.”

The Family Radio Hour

May 29, 2008
Sharlet: I've been cruising the airwaves to promote my new book, The Family, talking with a lot of great...

Whose Land?

May 29, 2008
Under the heading of American mythology, our national religion: "No-Man's Land," a meditation in The Believer on gentrification...

A Seductively Passionate Voice

May 29, 2008
Contributing to the conservative drumbeat for war with Iran are the criers of “religious freedom,” who point, correctly, to...

The Last Word

May 28, 2008
One of the few advantages of maintaining a blog about media and religion is that when a media heavyweight...

Reality Check

May 28, 2008
Sharlet: Amanda Marcotte — the blogger behind Pandagon and author of It’s a Jungle Out There: The Feminist Survival...

The Family

May 27, 2008
An excerpt from The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power (Harper), by Jeff Sharlet: He wandered...

Mainline Megas

May 19, 2008
Mark Pinsky coins the kind of alliterative phrase that should produce a herd of stories following his trail: “mainline...

The Kaus Problem

May 19, 2008
"Besides the Jew," writes Joshua Cohen in the Jewish Forward, "there is no greater hater of the self than...

The Dark, Glassy Lake

May 19, 2008
Does the following sentence strike you as a little creepy? “In their floor-length gowns, up-dos and tiaras, the 70...

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