The counterpart to today’s NYT frontpager on the pope’s mild stand on behalf of immigrants is the Metro section...

Bill Sizemore of the Virginian-Pilot has spent much of his career reporting on Pat Robertson, the last alpha male...

Peter Manseau in The Washington Post, on the incredible shrinking papacy.

Three powerful new essays from Revealer contributing editors look at the history, theory, and news of religion and media.

A historian of early Christianity looks at contemporary evangelicalism’s persecution complexes in light of the Christian martyrdom tradition and...

Jeff Sharlet: Daniel Radosh sucks one in this Bloggingheads "diavlog" -- a video blog conversation Daniel and I had...

"Euphemism and American Violence," an essay in the New York Review of Books by David Bromwich, may be the...

Faith-Based Initatives just turned seven. And it looks like the program may have a long life ahead of it....

Revealer SoCal: Make sure to catch Mark Dery's keynote address to the "Sacred and the Profane" conference at...

Much ink has been spilled over John McCain’s ongoing relationship with ultra-right megachurch pastor and apocalypse dreamer John Hagee....

Sharlet: I’ve been following the career of Senator Mark Pryor ever since the faith-based Democrat of Arkansas told me...

Sarah Posner ties the John Hagee story together at Religion Dispatches the old-fashioned way — by following the money.

Catholics comprised the single biggest self-identified religious demographic in the Democratic primaries on Tuesday — 28% — and they...

What else to call the new CD from Christian industrial rocker Eowyn, Silent Screams, which borrows its title...

Sarah Posner dedicates her “FundamentaList” at The American Prospect this week to the John Hagee / John McCain scandal....

Fundamentalism loses its sway, even as politicians profess their faith. Let's ask them: how does God guide you, exactly?

Sharlet: How often do you get a chance to defend the Christian Right, public vulgarity, and Yiddish all at...

Christian rocker Larry Norman moves on. By S. Brent Plate: The first album I ever bought was Larry Norman's Only...

"Hound Dog," allegedly stolen by Elvis from Big Mama Thornton, was written by two New York Jews. One of...

Why should you read a website burdened by the unwieldy title of "Knight Chair in Media and Religion"?...

“Huckabee endorses ‘egg as person’ amendment” in Colorado, reports the Denver Post. The Post doesn’t mention that the proposed...

TUESDAY: Revealer Kathryn Joyce will be talking on her forthcoming book, Quiverfull: Inside the Christian Patriarchy Movement, and two...

With the growing popularity of anti-religion / 9/11 conspiracy theory "documentaries" such as Zeitgeist, 9/11 Truthers are starting...

Brett Grainger's Plymouth Brethren family revered manual labor and looked on books other than the Bible with mild...