The First Noble Truth of Charlie Brown
By Jeff Sharlet Charles “Sparky” Schulz began his cartooning career at a Catholic magazine called Timeless Topix, but the strip...
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The "Freedom" of "Religion"
A daily collage of religion in the news from the war. “None of these acts is the work of a religion....
Magic Numbers
Just released: The Pew Internet and American Life Project‘s survey on “Faith Online.”We’re especially delighted to announce this goldmine of data...
Bloggercon Gets Religion
Jeff Sharlet, editor of The Revealer, writes: I’ll be moderating a discussion session on religion, spirituality, and God blogs at Bloggercon,...
"Incomprehensible"
A NEW DAILY FEATURE With only a few exceptions, the Western press and the elite Arab press are reporting...
The God Beat
We almost called The Revealer “God Beat,” and thank God we didn’t — the more time we’ve spent studying religion in...
Into The Darkness
Religion writers will be familiar with the Catholic Church’s more nuanced attempts to spin the news of its American...
Journalism is Itself a Religion
A Theological Investigation By Jay Rosen “In my view, journalism is a secular enterprise, and there is no specifically...
The Samson Effect
To shave or not to shave, that was the question Saddam Hussein‘s captors faced; and the answer, writes The Washington Post‘s Philip...
Pew's Centers of Excellence
The Revealer is published by New York University’s Center for Religion and Media, one of the Pew Charitable Trusts’ Centers...
Press Crit
Not all of these sites address the role of religion in the news — but we think they should,...
Love and (Religious) Work in Netflix’s “Nobody Wants This”
Judaism and gender in the hit romantic comedy series
The Churches of Artificial Intelligence
A disgraced tech tycoon’s AI church and the religious leaders experimenting with AI
The Lamp and Its Shadow: Emma Lazarus and Choosing the Better Diaspora
How the famed poet’s Jewish identity shaped her commitment to immigration and may have contributed to her overlooking other...
Dogs in Islam and Turkey Today
A range of reactions to dogs has a long history in Islam and has become a political point of...
Editor's Letter: Our Work Continues
The Editor reflects on the election and The Revealer’s important work
From the Gay Agenda to Childless Cat Ladies
How ideas about the family animate Christian nationalism, and how they are changing to create a broader conservative coalition
From Missionaries to Settler-Colonialists for Christian Supremacy
Homeland, “our people,” and the call for a new Caesar in Evangelical discourse
Christian Nationalism Gone Global
Paula White-Cain, international networks of Independent Charismatic Christians, and political violence
Dismantling Democracy: Christian Nationalism’s Threat to America's Future
The money and methods behind the massive and well-funded movement
Public Schools, Religion, and Race
An excerpt from “Without a Prayer: Religion and Race in New York City Public Schools”
A Cantor and an Adult Bat Mitzvah Student Meet in a Bar
A review of the new film “Between the Temples”
Mainline Protestants and Christian Nationalism
An excerpt from “Baptizing America: How Mainline Protestants Helped Build Christian Nationalism”
Winning the Religious Marketplace
A Review of "The Divine Economy: How Religions Compete for Wealth, Power, and People"