There’s a valuable comparison to be found by slogging through this week’s New Yorker lead story (print only), by the normally-astute Jon...

The New York Times reports today that what The Salvation Army is really all about (the New York division, at least) is,...

“Satanic hysteria” is such an interesting phrase, with so many possibilities. The coffee clerk who brought it up at...

The Revealer likes to harp on a theme, a rather vague notion of democratic religion writing — the sort practiced...

An exceptionally poor Associated Press report last week paired the news of a Catholic priest’s arrest in Ohio for growing pot with...

Follow your dreams” is a popular theme in teen magazines, but Brio, dedicated to “challenging teen girls toward a healthy...

The “Readings” section of the Harper’s February edition points The Revealer toward this peculiar prayer: Father God, we ask your blessings on our...

The Revealer is still sick. Check back tomorrow, please; and in the meantime, visit our friend Kathy Shaidle at Relapsed Catholic. Kathy was...

21 January 2004 Iviews offers Muslim news and analysis with a non-religious focus. The Islamic Broadcasting Network offers live and archived...

The Revealer has a fever today, so high I’ve been haunted by fever dreams of George W. Bush leading an orange-robed choir...

The markers that sustain religion — holidays — can make writing about it boring beyond belief, a truism of...

In the beginning, there was a “time of innocence.” Pam Shaw, one of a few thousand Eves, called it...

The other day The Revealer was on a radio show with an otherwise very clever journalist who noted that far more...

It turned out a bit like Canterbury Tales — a motley assembly of true believers, kneeling drunkards, and ecstatic skeptics gathered...

“Perhaps,” writes The Weekly Standard‘s Christopher Caldwell, “we assume too much in asserting that the open democratic republics of the West...

“The Death of the Book,” by S. David Marsh, is not, strictly speaking, a religion story. Yet by virtue of...

Ever since Bono showed pal Jesse Helms the light (or not), the formerly firebreathing senator has been on a crusade against AIDS. His conversion was nothing...

Hear The Revealer‘s Jeff Sharlet talk about religion writing and his new book, Killing the Buddha: A Heretic’s Bible, with co-author Peter Manseau and radio...

There was a time when Beliefnet.com, the 800-pound ecumenical guerilla of online religion, peddled itself with the slogan, “Because everyone...

From Jay Rosen‘s “Journalism is Itself a Religion” — a new Revealer feature: What results from the “relative godlessness of mainstream journalists?” Or, in a more...

The Revealer welcomes guest commentator Peter Manseau, co-author of Killing the Buddha: A Heretic’s Bible and author of the forthcoming Vows: A Family...