Lest anyone accuse Paul Thomas Anderson of going over the top in his juxtaposition of God and oil in...

Revealer contributing editor S. Brent Plate is evidently saving his best stuff for the all-new Religion Dispatches, where he...

Amy Sullivan, "Nation" editor for Time and a friend of The Revealer, is coming out with her first book,...

The Jewish Week calls attention to Lior Liebling, 12-year-old Jewish "spiritual genius," and a new documentary about his...

Harvard’s Nieman Foundation for Journalism runs a website called Nieman Watchdog that bills itself as revealing the “Questions the...

“Church is not something we attend,” says Jake Neufeld, part of a “new monastic” movement in evangelicalism, “it’s something...

Leftist bloggers call the brand-new Washington Independent a "progressive Politico," but from day one (or month one, anyway; the...

"I'm here to capture the rapture and the resurrection," says master composter Tim Dundon, self-proclaimed "guru of doo-doo," in...

He was an anarchist and an independent journalist who went to Mexico to document revolution -- and ended up...

Stuart Klawans identifies the plot twist that makes There Will Be Blood seem both relevant to the present moment...

If Giuliani pulls off a miracle and wins Florida, the press will pay attention to “America’s [self-proclaimed] mayor” again....

Sharlet: The CrimethInc. Ex-Workers Collective has posted my new Rolling Stone story on their fallen friend, Brad Will,...

"It reminds me of the Catholic Church in the Middle Ages, when we had indulgences." -- Republican leader John...

Are you a “postabortive man”? Or are you puzzled by the term? Sarah Blustain diagnoses the anti-abortion movement’s latest...

The Church of Scientology's Celebrity Centre trades as much on the glory of the stars who stayed there when...

Huckabee, yesterday: “I have opponents in this race who do not want to change the Constitution. But I believe...

It's important to state right off that nothing in Rich Cohen's WaPo column on Obama and Louis Farrakhan...

Mike Huckabee, says NYT’s David Kirkpatrick, is like the melody and the harmony of evangelicalism. The Revealer often disagrees...

Sharlet: I opened the latest New York Review of Books looking forward to the great Garry Wills on "Romney...

Will the uneasy merger of church and state known as faith-based initiatives survive into the next administration? A Pew...

Chicago Dyke, of the group blog Corrente, warns that the Democratic courtship of religious voters — and, in South Carolina, black...

After Obama's win in Iowa, we waited eagerly for the poll numbers revealing the depth of his white evangelical...

Last week we criticized the NYT’s reliance on evangelical VIPs for its “insight” into Huckabee, so it’s only fair...

Frank Schaeffer, son of the late Christian Right icon Francis Schaeffer, speaks out about how modern fundamentalists have abused...