The Secular Tide

March 15, 2004
“Meet the new face of intolerance,” writes The Wall Street Journal editorial page, and guess who the Journal‘s talking about? The “left”...

Iraqi Interventions

March 15, 2004
USA Weekend‘s cover feature on five soldiers and how their service in Iraq has strengthened their faith is doubleplusgood propaganda,...

Jeebus H. Christ On A Popsicle Stick!

March 15, 2004
The FCC has run Jesus Christ out off South Park, The Comedy Channel’s lovable mountain town of foul-mouthed little assholes. Oops! We mean “butt-holes.” Broadcasting...

Good Gnus

March 15, 2004
Nextbook.org, a Jewish literature site, points the way to “The Mother Tongue Between Two Slices of Rye,” an essay by novelist Gary...

Marketing God, Part 3

March 15, 2004
Here at The Revealer, we’re intrigued by the way religions and “spiritualities” appeal, sell, and/or market themselves to followers, or...

"The Ice Storm," the Sermon

March 15, 2004
Sometimes an ice storm is just an ice storm; but sometimes, as in Barbara Nicolosi‘s exegesis of Ang Lee‘s film of Rick Moody‘s novel The...

A Jew Type Responds

March 14, 2004
Whether or not The Passion is anti-Semitic remains open to debate; but the question of whether it enflames anti-Semitic sentiments can...

Arresting Jesus

March 11, 2004
Late breaking Passion news from the Jewish Forward: “Emotions in the auditorium became so intense that during the crucifixion scene,...

We Knew Not

March 10, 2004
In our haste to bring you Chris Lehmann‘s powerful new feature on the visual sins of The Passion, The Revealer committed numerous sins...

After The Passion

March 10, 2004
You’ve seen The Passion of The Christ so many times now you can sing along to all the songs, and you’re...

Who Owns the Passion?

March 9, 2004
Another smart review of The Passion can be found in The Nation, wherein Stuart Klawans weighs Gibson’s marketing and moviemaking skills: “Beyond my parochial squeamishness...

Marketing God, Part II

March 9, 2004
The Revealer’s latest original feature, “Picturing The Passion,” by Chris Lehmann, is the second installment of his series on the Marketing of God. Lehmann,...

Jeff Sharlet WAMC Albany Radio

March 8, 2004
The Revealer‘s Jeff Sharlet will be talking on religion and the way it gets written about at 11 am, eastern time, on “Roundtable,”...

Evangelical Borg

March 8, 2004
Two features on the growing strength of evangelical Christians reveal the stagnation of the press’s understanding of the breadth...

The God-Plus Beat

March 8, 2004
Aha — now we know why David Kirkpatrick (see “Evangelical Borg”) extracted such a one-note article out of the curiousity (to say...

Public Confessions

March 6, 2004
Should politicos confess their faith in public? Buried in The Washington Post‘s metro section are a series of colorfully-phrased answers...

Faith-Based Bribery

March 5, 2004
President Bush is reminding his base — and liberal religious activists who could provide swing votes — of FBI, his faith-based initiative...

Jesus Lab

March 5, 2004
Q. What guides Bush‘s science policies, politics or science? A. Jesus. That is, if we take Bush’s testimonies of faith seriously....

Iraqi Hearts & Minds

March 4, 2004
For some reason, the “language pack installation” box pops up when we open this sop for the faithful by James G. Lakely in...

Shockwave Teen Prayer Warriors

March 4, 2004
A new original feature on The Revealer: “Shockwave,” by Elizabeth A. Castelli. Castelli, a visiting fellow at New York University’s Center for...

Mel Gibson's Baby

March 3, 2004
Mel Gibson defines evil for Christianity Today‘s Mark Moring: “taking something that’s good and twisting it a little bit.” Well, if you say...

Gay Marriage, This Instant

March 3, 2004
Writing about the fight for — or against — gay marriage means writing about religion. Yet most of the...

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