Sharlet: One of the upcoming books I'm most excited about is Quiverfull: Inside the Christian Patriarchy Movement, by former...

Preaching two years after his downfall following the disclosure of drug use and a long-standing relationship with a male...

“Death to the fascist insect that preys upon the life of the people,” Patty Hearst, AKA “Tania” of the...

Jason C. Bivins, author of The Religion of Fear: The Politics of Horror in Conservative Evangelicalism, and D....

Kathryn Joyce: The World Congress of Families, a right-wing “pro-family” group that I wrote about in a March cover...

In his NYT column, Milton scholar Stanley Fish offers the first Obama/Jesus comparison that actually makes sense. Meanwhile, NYT’s...

Plenty of pundits pounced on Palin’s resurrection of failed Civil War general George McClellan in last night’s debate (apparently,...

Upcoming events: Submersion Journalism, Ten Minutes of Palinology.

Will McCain’s Palin pick revive his once-high hopes of winning Latino votes? Will mainstream media be able to comprehend...

Sharlet: I'm using the thinnest of threads to tie my friend Kio's new blog, Municipal Archive, to The...

“As the Bush era comes to a fitful close, and the American presidential elections approach, the Christian evangelical movement...

There is no news, scholarly, or artistic value in this link. Just a glorious example of fundamentalist funk, Holy...

ABC reports that two of the books Palin’s church allies in Wasilla may have singled out for censorship are...

Evangelical Palin’s fans are comparing the governor to the biblical Queen Esther, whom her pastor said Palin took as...

The Family Research Council — Washington’s one-stop lobby shop for all things fundamentalist — is warning McCain that picking...

Every now and then, The Revealer receives some books for review that none of us are ever going to...

The press played Obama's convention speech as MLK's dream fulfilled. A careful reading reveals the dream deferred. Obama's theological...

We've got head hunters, big dams, holy Wal-Mart, and all kinds of Jesus, available to YOU, this fall, absolutely...

Dan Kennedy’s Media Nation blog points us to two helpful Palin perspectives, including a Pentecostal scholar of Pentecostalism who...

Sharlet: An essay of mine from last year's Oxford American Southern Music Annual, "The People's Singer," made the cut...

Beliefnet founder Steve Waldman‘s list of “what’s scary, what’s not scary” about Sarah Palin’s religion is a useful, if...

A left critic on what secular humanists don't get about Christianity in America. By Robert Christgau. (Excerpted from Truthdig.com)

Sharlet: Fred Clarkson of the anti-religious right site Talk2Action told me a couple of days ago that this story...

The "New Atheists," as writers such as Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, and Christopher Hitchens are known, are...