New Orleans may be a city “where old-time religion and voodoo converge,” as the NYT’s Michael Brick puts it,...

White “finds.” Black “loots.” Brown hides beneath church pews. Too bad the press isn’t looking. By Marissa Kantor Mainstream...

Tony Perkins of the Christian conservative Family Research Council targets NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg — usually of little concern...

New Orleans: Let there be light! Or not.

A federal judge in Sacramento ruled Wednesday (9/14) that the phrase “under God” makes the recitation of the Pledge...

Zain Shauk writes: In describing a Muslim father’s concerns about his daughters’ virtue, Robert King of the Indianapolis Star writes, “the Abdur-Rahmans have not...

Sharlet: On the one hand, there’s something thuggish about attempts by some religious conservative media bigs to press penguins...

Sean P. Means dutifully lines up to do a Christians-in-Hollywood piece for the Salt Lake Tribune, appropriately about “Mormon...

Zain Shauk writes: In describing a Muslim father’s concerns about his daughters’ virtue, Robert King of the Indianapolis Star...

A federal judge in Sacramento ruled Wednesday (9/14) that the phrase “under God” makes the recitation of the Pledge...

The Revealer has very rarely received as much mail as we did in response to Anthea Butler‘s response to...

The religious art of a junkie named Mike, as seen by photographer Jessica Dimmock. Theologian Ariel Glucklich on sacred...

Moktada al-Sadr‘s “beard reaches up his cheeks and a dark widow’s peak points down from beneath his own black...

Nick Street asks why Christian conservative media is so literally down to earth. Does Pat Robertson dig the Hubble...

A leader of the nation’s largest evangelical organization sharply chastises Bush for his failure to act in a crisis...

A letter to the editor of The Revealer: “i’m 13 in 8th grade and your article gives no information...

The Family Research Council — heir to the Christian Coalition as Washington’s most effective Christian Right political organization —...

“Like a lot of celebrities, the Rock is smaller than you expect it to be…” No, not the awesome...

Nellie Day: Kentucky’s Messenger-Inquirer, like many other American papers, tries to present an unbiased look at the soon-to-be film...

Amy Sullivan of Washington Monthly on why The Atlantic, the Weekly Standard, and the National Review are wrong about...

Buzzing its way through the British media is the recent announcement that three Christian faith-based organizations have joined together...

Billy Sothern: “I hope that in the event that my house is still standing and above water, someone has...

Those aren’t the words of a starving prisoner of the New Orleans Superdome, radicalized by the realization that he...

Hey fellas — been circumcised lately? If so, Slate‘s Emily Bazelon wants you, for a survey on “optimal pleasure.” (Was sex...