The Revealer seeks new revelators. We’ve been weaned off the foundation teat, and we’re all busy trying to feed ourselves with paying journalism. But we plan to keep on revelating, which means we need to deepen our talent pool.

We’re looking for three media critics to join our staff as contributing editors. You’ll be able to post new commentary at will and publish other writers you love. It’s unpaid work, but you’ll be able to share your ideas about religion and media with tens of thousands readers. There are plenty of bigger blogs, but not many with as well-defined an audience — our focused email subscription list of 3,000 includes journalists, editors, and producers from nearly every major media organization in the U.S. and quite a few from overseas.

You’ll join Jeff Sharlet, a contributing editor to Harper’s and associate research scholar at NYU’s Center for Religion and Media; Kathryn Joyce, currently working on a book about women and the Christian Right; Adam H. Becker, Assistant Professor of Classics and Religious Studies at NYU; Scott Korb, co-author A Faith Between Us, forthcoming from Bloomsbury; Nicole Greenfield, a graduate student in NYU’s Religious Studies Progam; and many other contributors in helping to shape the discussion among media makers about how to document religion and belief.

Who we’re looking for: journalists at odds with the profession; scholars who can talk to the commoners; bloggers who make sharp-edged media criticism a priority. We want writers who’ll commit to contributing one or more short entries a week and who’ll try to produce the occasional longer commentary or report.

You needn’t be an “expert,” but you do need to be seriously curious. You needn’t be religious, but you do need to be interested in religion as a category and expansive in your definition of the term. Specialists, however — writers who want to work a beat, such as TV news, or coverage of the war in Iraq, or the evangelical press — are welcome.

The Revealer tilts left, but unpredictably. We’re looking for writers who are critical of power, which means that we loathe party hacks of all varieties. We want sharp-toothed media critics who will occasionally publish rants and manifestos, but no pundits need apply. We don’t much care about issues of “balance” or “bias”; we want to investigate the function and performance of media narratives of religion. We want to imagine a smarter press. We want to read, see, and hear sharper thinking, deeper history, and thicker description.

If you do, too, drop us a line at: the dot revealer at nyu dot edu. Tell us who you are, what you’ve written, and whatever else you care to reveal.