Punctuating the Divine

February 27, 2004
Having spread the news of official reports and officious surveys (see the following two items) and The Passion (see much of...

Nailing the Passion

February 26, 2004
    “Rodolfo Esqueda removes pewter nails from the mold used to make one of the pieces of jewelry...

Rising and Falling

February 26, 2004
Can it be true? He is risen and she is fallen — which is to say, Mel‘s commercial ressurrection is...

A Yellow Star for Mel

February 25, 2004
At last — the big day for what may be the biggest religion story in 2,000 years — the...

Ransom Theory

February 22, 2004
Here’s a line you wouldn’t expect to find in the pages of a major secular daily: “The Gospel of...

Prayer Maps

February 22, 2004
Pizza parlors, shipping offices, printing shops, jewelry shops — temples, all, as revealed by photographer Jaime Permuth‘s “Manhattan Mincha Map,”...

Tough Guys

February 20, 2004
Our post will be delayed today; in the meantime, study this line-up.

The Book of LaHaye

February 19, 2004
Buried in a Christian Science Monitor report on apocalyptic Christians and those who preach against their doctrine is this sociological curio:...

Sundance God

February 18, 2004
A new original feature from The Revealer, Patton Dodd‘s report from the Sundance film festival: “[R]eligious film is what I went...

A Grateful Jew

February 18, 2004
As we type, film critic Michael Medved is on CNN explaining the problem with Mel Gibson‘s Passion. What’s the problem? The Jews. CNN brought Medved,...

One Way (Or Another)

February 17, 2004
Republican, Democrat; red state, blue state; “Christian,” non-Christian… to this list of fuzzy distinctions beloved by the press, add...

Enlightening Iraq

February 17, 2004
We suppose it should come as no surprise that The Salt Lake Tribune, using a Combined News Service report, should give...

Take 'Em To The River

February 16, 2004
The Baptists in Iraq are getting antsy about the U.S. invasion, but not because the crusade isn’t going according...

Saturday Psalm

February 14, 2004
“The preaching is Baptist, long and good, about the generations springing up and being cut down like grass. The...

Fleshiness Theology

February 12, 2004
“‘There’s something very important about the fleshiness of Jesus,'” says Jay Johnson, a theologian at the Pacific School of Religion’s Center...

Look Away!

February 11, 2004
Snow day! Secret high holy day! Vacation! Technical difficulties. Move along. Nothing to see here. Meantime, entertain yourselves with...

Get It? Got It. Good.

February 10, 2004
The Revealer welcomes some competition in the religion-press-critique business from GetReligion.org, a new blog edited by Doug LeBlanc and written, for the most...

Prayers Big and Small

February 8, 2004
The-God-of-Small-Things is a blog maintained by someone named Bob. As far as we can tell, it has one entry — a...

Without a Peg

February 6, 2004
Faiza Saleh Ambah of The Christian Science Monitor concluded her five-part series on making the hajj yesterday. An hour after the last...

Keep It To Yourself

February 6, 2004
Gregg Easterbrook writes: “I’ll tell you what shakes my belief. Not natural selection; not the evil and injustice of the...

Ca-razy for Kabbalah

February 5, 2004
David Klinghoffer writes erudite but peculiar books. In one, he recalled his teenage self-circumcision as part of a “conversion” experience...

Ooga-Booga Christians

February 5, 2004
Are evangelicals real, or just a story to scare the children of the Upper West Side? 60 Minutes ponders, Wonkette investigates. As it...

Passion Pieces

February 4, 2004
Every day for months now, some pundit, some critic, some tired Godbeat reporter looking for a brush with celebrity,...

Framing Power

February 4, 2004
Diane Winston cites scholar Richard Flory on the roots of the media’s problem with the “r” word: “In the early 20th century,...

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