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# The Revealer

a review of religion & media

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## Posts

- [Upcoming Events: September 2013](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/upcoming-events-september-2013/) - September 2013 Upcoming Religion & Media Events
- [Religion in H.P. Lovecraft](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/religion-in-h-p-lovecraft/) - In Lovecraft’s most popular stories, the religious element is often shallow. However, “religion,” as a category was, for Lovecraft, a constant source of speculation and concern.
- [In the News: Biomemes, Voodoo, Elie Wiesel and more!](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/in-the-news-biomemes-voodoo-elie-wiesel-and-more/) - A round-up of recent religion and media stories in the news.
- [When Misseeing Is Believing: The Self-Reflected Image and Kundalini Yoga](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/when-misseeing-is-believing-the-self-reflected-image-kundalini-yoga-and-cognitive-dissonance/) - Unusual experiences during meditation may help to explain why some people stay in abusive religious communities
- [From Puerto Rico to Palestine, with Solidarity](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/from-puerto-rico-to-palestine-with-solidarity/) - Exploring alliances between Puerto Ricans and Palestinians
- [Afghanistan: Memories of Glass](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/afghanistan-memories-of-glass/) - In Herat, Saba Imtiaz explores memory and memorialization, where glass blowers once whispered the names of the fallen into thousands of hand-blown objects.
- [The Yellow Peril’s Second Coming](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-yellow-perils-second-coming/) - Amidst COVID-inspired racism, the connections between anti-Asian bigotry and Christian nationalism have returned with a vengeance
- [The Death and Life of Ivan Illich](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-death-and-life-of-ivan-illich/) - A pilgrimage to the renegade Catholic priest’s grave to find inspiration on how to resist fascists today
- [Editor’s Letter: How Things are Going at Colleges and Universities](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/editors-letter-how-things-are-going-at-colleges-and-universities/) - The Editor reflects on the current state of American higher education
- [The Machinery of Muslim Erasure in Modi’s India](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-machinery-of-muslim-erasure-in-modis-india/) - The bulldozer as a violent emblem of a Hindu nationalist state
- [In Defense of Organized Religion](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/in-defense-of-organized-religion/) - A review of the book “Godstruck: Seven Women’s Unexpected Journeys to Religious Conversion”
- [Editor's Letter: Why Did We Move on So Quickly from the Minnesota Assassinations?](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/editors-letter-why-did-we-move-on-so-quickly-from-the-minnesota-assassinations/) - The Editor reflects on the religious and political environment that enables political violence, and the culture that turns away from it
- [The Revealer Podcast Episode 61: Protestant Sex Scandals in America](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-revealer-podcast-episode-61-protestant-sex-scandals-in-america/) - Why have public sex scandals been such a common feature of Protestant leadership in the United States and what does that say about the culture?
- [The Revealer Podcast Episode 60: The Rightwing Radicalization of White Christian Boys](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-revealer-podcast-episode-60-the-rightwing-radicalization-of-white-christian-boys/) - What is causing the rightwing momentum among adolescent males in the United States?
- [From Good Christian Boys to White Nationalists](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/from-good-christian-boys-to-white-nationalists/) - An excerpt from “Disciples of White Jesus: The Radicalization of American Boyhood”
- [Horny Relics: Sydney Sweeney’s Bathwater and the Longing for Real Presence](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/horny-relics-sydney-sweeneys-bathwater-and-the-longing-for-real-presence/) - In a world of disembodiment and loneliness, what can we learn about a new type of relic that offers connection to a celebrity?
- [How to Monetize Your Sex Scandal: A Guide for Disgraced Pastors](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/how-to-monetize-your-sex-scandal-a-guide-for-disgraced-pastors/) - The rehabilitation of celebrity pastor Carl Lentz
- [Stephen Miller Isn’t a Kapo. He’s Much Worse.](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/stephen-miller-isnt-a-kapo-hes-much-worse/) - Calling the Trump advisor a "kapo" misses how much power he has to implement his bigotry
- [Abuelita Ecologies](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/abuelita-ecologies/) - A review of “Falling in Love with Nature: The Values of Latinx Catholicism”
- [Editor's Letter: American Jewish Reactions to Trump's Actions and Policies](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/editors-letter-american-jewish-reactions-to-trumps-actions-and-policies/) - The Editor reflects on the recent poll on how Jewish voters feel about the President and his attempts to combat antisemitism
- [Making Good Jewish Trouble](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/making-good-jewish-trouble/) - A review of Sandi DuBowski’s documentary "Sabbath Queen"
- [The Revealer Podcast Episode 59: Borders, Immigration, and Religion](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-revealer-podcast-episode-59-borders-immigration-and-religion/) - Making sense of the United States’ deep investment in and fixation on national borders
- [American Border Religion](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/american-border-religion/) - An excerpt from "Heaven Has a Wall: Religion, Borders, and the Global United States"
- [Authoritarian Christianity Targets Christians](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/authoritarian-christianity-targets-christians/) - Trump’s Christian nationalism is about policing identity, and many Christians will suffer
- [Editor’s Letter: Exciting Awards for The Revealer](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/editors-letter-exciting-awards-for-the-revealer/) - The Editor shares news about our recent awards
- [The Revealer Podcast Episode 58: A Black Panther Woman, Spirituality, and Today’s Activism](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-revealer-podcast-episode-58-a-black-panther-woman-spirituality-and-todays-activism/) - Spiritual wellness practices to sustain the fight for racial equality
- [Americans Leaving Religion](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/americans-leaving-religion/) - An excerpt from “Goodbye Religion: The Causes and Consequences of Secularization”
- [Spiritual Wellness as a Tool to Combat Racism](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/spiritual-wellness-as-a-tool-to-combat-racism/) - An excerpt from “Black Panther Woman: The Political and Spiritual Life of Ericka Huggins”
- [Greg Bourke, Gay Catholic Activist, on Why It’s More Important to Stay and Fight](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/greg-bourke-gay-catholic-activist-on-why-its-more-important-to-stay-and-fight/) - “If everybody just walks away, then the bullies are gonna win, the injustice is gonna remain, and nothing’s gonna get changed.”
- [The Sweet Taste of Prayer in Turkey](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-sweet-taste-of-prayer-in-turkey/) - The Turkish tradition of giving lokma, sweet fried dough, for free to honor the dead and on special occasions
- [The Sikh State Built on Migration Abroad Now Wrestles with Migration Within](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-sikh-state-built-on-migration-abroad-now-wrestles-with-migration-within/) - The rising anti-migrant hostilities in India’s state of Punjab
- [The Political Importance of Orthodox Christian Literature in Putin’s Russia](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-political-importance-of-orthodox-christian-literature-in-putins-russia/) - The USSR’s collapse saw a resurgence of religious literature presenting Orthodox Christianity as a pillar of Russia’s greatness, laying the ideological foundation for Putin’s war against the West
- [A Life in the Struggle for Reproductive Freedom](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/a-life-in-the-struggle-for-reproductive-freedom/) - The doctors and religious organizers who risk everything
- [The Unwritten Rules of Renting in India for Queer People and Muslims](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-unwritten-rules-of-renting-in-india-for-queer-people-and-muslims/) - Navigating rampant discrimination in India’s rental housing market
- [Editor’s Letter: Beyond the Headlines](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/editors-letter-beyond-the-headlines/) - The Editor reflects on finding ways to focus amidst chaos
- [Meeting Chaos with Compassion and Humor through “The Roots of Buddhist Psychology”](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/meeting-chaos-with-compassion-and-humor-through-the-roots-of-buddhist-psychology/) - The 30th anniversary of Jack Kornfield’s famed lecture series on Buddhism and how it resonates today amidst social and political upheaval
- [Nothing Unclean Will Enter America, the New Jerusalem](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/nothing-unclean-will-enter-america-the-new-jerusalem/) - A review of the book, “Immigration and Apocalypse”
- [Son of Safam](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/son-of-safam/) - What a musical nostalgia trip taught me about the roots of my Jewish identity
- [The Revealer Podcast Episode 57: Police, Prisons, and the Religion of Mass Criminalization](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-revealer-podcast-episode-57-police-prisons-and-the-religion-of-mass-criminalization/) - Race, religion, and the urgent need for reform
- [Measuring Salvation in Chains and Corpses](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/measuring-salvation-in-chains-and-corpses/) - An excerpt from “White Property, Black Trespass: Racial Capitalism and the Religious Function of Mass Criminalization”
- [Spiritual Oligarchy](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/spiritual-oligarchy/) - A Review of “The Violent Take It by Force: The Christian Movement That Is Threatening Our Democracy”
- [Special Issue Editor's Letter: The Threat of Christian Nationalism](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/special-issue-editors-letter-the-threat-of-christian-nationalism/) - The Editor reflects on the growing Christian nationalism movement and the upcoming election
- [Editor's Letter: The Executive Order on Anti-Christian Bias](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/editors-letter-the-executive-order-on-anti-christian-bias/) - The Editor reflects on claims of victimhood amidst bias and discrimination against transgender Americans and Muslims
- [Are MAGA Christians More or Less Christian than Progressives?](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/are-maga-christians-more-or-less-christian-than-progressives/) - Turning to James Hogg to reflect on the liberal Christian response to Christian nationalism
- [The Revealer Podcast Episode 56: The People Destroying Democracy](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-revealer-podcast-episode-56-the-people-destroying-democracy/) - The organizations, religious communities, and people pushing America to authoritarianism
- [Shining a New Light on Former ISIS Women through Laugh-Out-Loud Literature](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/shining-a-new-light-on-former-isis-women-through-laugh-out-loud-literature/) - A reflection on “Fundamentally,” a new novel by Nussaibah Younis that examines the de-radicalizing of ISIS brides through the lens of comedy
- [The Rise of Oilfield Evangelism](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-rise-of-oilfield-evangelism/) - The commingling of conservative Christianity, corporations, and the fossil fuel industry's fragile workforce
- [The Sacred Steps of Ecstatic Dance](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-sacred-steps-of-ecstatic-dance/) - A dance movement that is redefining contemporary spirituality
- [Editor’s Letter: To Understand Our World, We Must Understand Religion](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/editors-letter-to-understand-our-world-we-must-understand-religion/) - The Editor reflects on the centrality of religion to systems throughout the world
- [The Revealer Podcast Episode 55: Religion Is Everywhere and Why That Matters](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-revealer-podcast-episode-55-religion-is-everywhere-and-why-that-matters/) - How religion shapes our calendars, culture, healthcare systems, and our politics
- [The Questioning Embrace of Doubt and Faith](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-questioning-embrace-of-doubt-and-faith/) - A review of “Knock at the Sky: Seeking God in Genesis after Losing Faith in the Bible”
- [The Resurrection of Todd Bentley](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-resurrection-of-todd-bentley/) - A popular Charismatic Christian leader’s fall and what his redemption reveals
- [Against War: The Mysterious Death of Student Protestor, Timothy MacCarry](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/against-war-the-mysterious-death-of-student-protestor-timothy-maccarry/) - An anti-war student’s strange death decades ago and how it resonates on college campuses today
- [The Hindu Way of Life and Divorce](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-hindu-way-of-life-and-divorce/) - Dealing with domestic abuse and divorce in a culture that often doesn’t want to acknowledge either
- [All Aboard the Orphan Train!](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/all-aboard-the-orphan-train/) - How the U.S. adoption industry contributes to white Christian nationalism
- [Priest Migration to Save Italy’s Catholic Churches](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/priest-migration-to-save-italys-catholic-churches/) - Italian bishops are hiring priests from Africa, South America, and elsewhere to address a priest shortage. But the migrant priests face persistent racism and anti-immigrant attitudes.
- [This Future Must Not Be Forever](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/this-future-must-not-be-forever/) - Battles over abortion expose a malignant hatred of women’s freedom
- [Editor's Letter: Taking Stock of the Past Year and Preparing for the Next](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/editors-letter-taking-stock-of-the-past-year-and-preparing-for-the-next/) - The Editor reflects on finding hope in troubling times
- [The Revealer Podcast Episode 54: The Limits of Forgiveness](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-revealer-podcast-episode-54-the-limits-of-forgiveness/) - The problems with the cultural pressures to forgive and their connections to religion
- [The Revealer Podcast Episode 53: Public School Secularization and Desegregation](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-revealer-podcast-episode-53-public-school-secularization-and-desegregation/) - What happened following Supreme Court decisions outlawing segregation and prayer in public schools, and their legacies today
- [Winter Holiday Articles We Love](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/winter-holiday-articles-we-love/) - The Revealer’s favorite articles about the December holidays
- [The Revealer’s Winter Reading Recommendations](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-revealers-winter-reading-recommendations-2/) - Our annual list of recommended books by Revealer writers
- [Satanic Humor and Religious Horror](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/satanic-humor-and-religious-horror/) - Christian myths of evil in “Longlegs” and “Skinamarink”
- [Parodying and Using Religion to Try to Save the Planet](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/parodying-and-using-religion-to-try-to-save-the-planet/) - A conversation about George González’s book, “The Church of Stop Shopping and Religious Activism”
- [To Evangelical Christians, What Does it Mean to "Welcome the Stranger"?](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/to-evangelical-christians-what-does-it-mean-to-welcome-the-stranger/) - A surge in White evangelicals working to help immigrants and refugees—and if that influences their politics
- [Editor's Letter: Our Work Continues](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/editors-letter-our-work-continues/) - The Editor reflects on the election and The Revealer’s important work
- [The Revealer Podcast Episode 52: The Changing Black Church](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-revealer-podcast-episode-52-the-changing-black-church/) - How the decline in religious affiliation and church attendance is altering Black life in the United States
- [Gender and the Black Church Today](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/gender-and-the-black-church-today/) - An excerpt from “The Contemporary Black Church: The New Dynamics of African American Religion”
- [Love and (Religious) Work in Netflix’s “Nobody Wants This”](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/love-and-religious-work-in-netflixs-nobody-wants-this/) - Judaism and gender in the hit romantic comedy series
- [The Churches of Artificial Intelligence](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/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](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/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 forms of oppression
- [Dogs in Islam and Turkey Today](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/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 contention in Turkey
- [Make America Mate Again](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/make-america-mate-again/) - Christian nationalism and group-based pronatalism on the American Right
- [From Missionaries to Settler-Colonialists for Christian Supremacy](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/from-missionaries-to-settler-colonialists-for-christian-supremacy/) - Homeland, “our people,” and the call for a new Caesar in Evangelical discourse
- [The Revealer Podcast Episode 51: Christian Nationalism, Charismatic Christians, and Political Violence](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-revealer-podcast-episode-51-christian-nationalism-charismatic-christians-and-political-violence/) - The prominent role Charismatic Christians play in today’s Christian nationalism
- [From the Gay Agenda to Childless Cat Ladies](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/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
- [Christian Nationalism Gone Global](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/christian-nationalism-gone-global/) - Paula White-Cain, international networks of Independent Charismatic Christians, and political violence
- [Christian Nationalism and Authoritarianism](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/christian-nationalism-and-authoritarianism/) - Comfort with violence and weakening democracy in the name of taking America back for God
- [Dismantling Democracy: Christian Nationalism’s Threat to America's Future](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/dismantling-democracy-christian-nationalisms-threat-to-americas-future/) - The money and methods behind the massive and well-funded movement
- [Editor’s Letter: A Fall Full of Significant Issues and Choices](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/editors-letter-a-fall-full-of-significant-issues-and-choices/) - The Editor reflects on what fall 2024 may bring
- [The Revealer Podcast Episode 50: Jewish Solidarity with the Pro-Palestine Protests](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-revealer-podcast-episode-50-jewish-solidarity-with-the-pro-palestine-protests/) - The sizable movement of American Jewish activists supporting justice for Palestinians
- [Public Schools, Religion, and Race](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/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](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/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](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/mainline-protestants-and-christian-nationalism/) - An excerpt from “Baptizing America: How Mainline Protestants Helped Build Christian Nationalism”
- [Winning the Religious Marketplace](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/winning-the-religious-marketplace/) - A Review of "The Divine Economy: How Religions Compete for Wealth, Power, and People"
- [The Coquette Catholic Trend](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-coquette-catholic-trend/) - What can this online aesthetic that rejects the tradwife trend for another “trad” expression of femininity tell us about Gen Z, social media, & religion?
- [Hasidic Yeshivas and Children's Rights](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/hasidic-yeshivas-and-childrens-rights/) - Private religious schools aren't providing boys with adequate English or secular education, which makes leaving Hasidic communities as adults difficult
- [Editor's Letter: Celebrating Angela Zito, the Person Who Made The Revealer’s Legacy Possible](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/editors-letter-celebrating-angela-zito-the-person-who-made-the-revealers-legacy-possible/) - After 21 years, Angela Zito is stepping down as co-director of the Center for Religion and Media
- [From Drake to Zac Efron: “Looking Jewish," or Not](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/from-drake-to-zac-efron-looking-jewish-or-not/) - An excerpt from “Millennial Jewish Stars: Navigating Racial Antisemitism, Masculinity, & White Supremacy"
- [Live By The Coin, Die By The Coin: Religion, Play, and Gen Z "Coin Boys"](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/live-by-the-coin-die-by-the-coin-religion-play-and-gen-z-coin-boys/) - From Tarot cards to coin flipping, religion is showing up among today’s teens in surprising ways
- [The Revealer Podcast Episode 49: Jewish Bodies and Jewish Celebrities](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-revealer-podcast-episode-49-jewish-bodies-and-jewish-celebrities/) - What lessons do representations of Jews in the media reveal about antisemitism and racism today?
- [The Revealer Podcast Episode 48: Elisabeth Elliot: Evangelical Icon and Her Alarming 3rd Marriage](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-revealer-podcast-episode-48-elisabeth-elliot-evangelical-icon-and-her-alarming-3rd-marriage/) - An evangelical leader’s teachings about marriage and the disturbing facts about her own
- [Layers of Dune: A Sandworm-Sized Case Study of Cultural Appropriation in Contemporary Science Fiction](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/layers-of-dune-a-sandworm-sized-case-study-of-cultural-appropriation-in-contemporary-science-fiction/) - How the latest Dune films perpetuate Orientalist stereotypes about Arabs and Muslims
- [The Symbolic Significance of Jewish Students in the Pro-Palestine Campus Protests](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-symbolic-significance-of-jewish-students-in-the-pro-palestine-campus-protests/) - Jewish college students play an important role in the protests against the war in Gaza
- [Racism and Religion in America](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/racism-and-religion-in-america/) - An excerpt from “The Religion of Whiteness: How Racism Distorts Christian Faith”
- [Houses of Worship Protecting People from Deportation and Supporting Latino Communities](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/houses-of-worship-protecting-people-from-deportation-and-supporting-latino-communities/) - An excerpt from “Sanctuary People: Faith-Based Organizing in Latina/o Communities”
- [Editor's Letter: Confronting Our Pasts to Address Our Present](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/editors-letter-confronting-our-pasts-to-address-our-present/) - The Editor reflects on personal, national, and religious histories to help us understand today
- [Podcast Series on Conservative Religion and Politics](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/podcast-series-on-conservative-religion-and-politics/) - A three-episode series on various aspects of conservative religion and U.S. politics
- [The Revealer Podcast Episode 47: Latino Faith-Based Activism and the Sanctuary Movement](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-revealer-podcast-episode-47-latino-faith-based-activism-and-the-sanctuary-movement/) - How religious communities are protecting immigrants and addressing the diverse needs of Latinos in the United States
- [On the Banality of Evil in Catholic Horrors Films](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/on-the-banality-of-evil-in-catholic-horrors-films/) - “Killers of the Flower Moon” and “The Zone of Interest” contain important lessons about atrocities committed by Catholics
- [Christian Science as Jewish Tradition](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/christian-science-as-jewish-tradition/) - Why did so many American Jewish women find Christian Science appealing?
- [How the Hindu Far-Right is Overhauling India’s Schools and Textbooks](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/how-the-hindu-far-right-is-overhauling-indias-schools-and-textbooks/) - Hindu nationalists are changing what students learn and what takes place in India’s school systems
- [Editor's Letter: Higher Education’s Downsizing of Religious Studies](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/editors-letter-higher-educations-downsizing-of-religious-studies/) - The Editor reflects on the societal effects of institutions eliminating or reducing religious studies courses
- [The Revealer Podcast Episode 46: Muslims in Pop Culture](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-revealer-podcast-episode-46-muslims-in-pop-culture/) - How media depictions of Muslims have been changing in robust ways in recent years
- [From Ms. Marvel to Ramy: Muslims in American Media](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/from-ms-marvel-to-ramy-muslims-in-american-media/) - An excerpt from “Pop Islam: Seeing American Muslims in Popular Media”
- [Queer and Religious in the Midwest](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/queer-and-religious-in-the-midwest/) - The documentary “We Live Here: The Midwest” showcases unexpected aspects of LGBTQ life in the heartland
- [Reviving Burmese Nat Shrines to Protect Myanmar’s Mount Popa National Park](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/reviving-burmese-nat-shrines-to-protect-myanmars-mount-popa-national-park/) - Climate change activists are turning to religion to save the environment in Myanmar
- [An Amish Farmer’s Court Case and a Curious Coalition of Rightwing Supporters](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/an-amish-farmers-court-case-and-a-curious-coalition-of-rightwing-supporters/) - The Amish farm at the center of a political maelstrom ten years in the making
- [The Evolution of Pope Francis’s Stance on LGBTQ Rights](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-evolution-of-pope-franciss-stance-on-lgbtq-rights/) - The pontiff’s shifting positions on queer Catholics
- [The Fire to Create the World Anew](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-fire-to-create-the-world-anew/) - After an arson attack intended to destroy their work, the Women With A Vision collective rose to fight back. A groundbreaking new book traces that journey.
- [Abortion On Demand](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/abortion-on-demand/) - The surprising history of a politically charged phrase
- [Reaching the Heartland: Gay Republicans’ Message to Religious Americans](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/reaching-the-heartland-gay-republicans-message-to-religious-americans/) - How gay Republicans tried to counter the religious right and show Christians it is ok to be gay
- [Editor's Letter: Activists Remaking the World](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/editors-letter-activists-remaking-the-world/) - The Editor reflects on the activists who continue to fight for a just and equitable world
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- [The Revealer Podcast Episode 43: Ex-Evangelicals and U.S. Politics](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-revealer-podcast-episode-43-ex-evangelicals-and-u-s-politics/) - Why people are leaving white evangelicalism, why those who stay are primed to accept “alternative facts,” and what this portends for the 2024 election
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- [The Mourning After](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-mourning-after/) - The Arkansas legislature approved plans for a memorial to “unborn children” terminated “during the era of Roe v Wade”
- [The Revealer’s Winter Reading Recommendations](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-revealers-winter-reading-recommendations/) - Our annual list of recommended books by Revealer writers
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- [On Cults, Yellowjackets, and Rewatching Shows](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/on-cults-yellowjackets-and-rewatching-shows/) - The biblical and religious motifs in "Yellowjackets" and the rituals of rewatching TV shows
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- [Dreaming of a Jewish Christmas](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/dreaming-of-a-jewish-christmas/) - The beloved Christmas music created and performed by American Jews
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- [Pride Roundup](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/pride-roundup/) - A collection of pieces about LGBTQ people and religion
- [On Pride, Protests, and the Summer](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/on-pride-protests-and-the-summer/) - The editor reflects on Florida’s new anti-LGBTQ laws and what that means for the country
- [The First Brick at Stonewall](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-first-brick-at-stonewall/) - The power of a myth to inspire generations of LGBTQ people
- [The Revealer Podcast Episode 36: Summer Camp and American Jews](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-revealer-podcast-episode-36-summer-camp-and-american-jews/) - How summer camps became such an important part of the American Jewish experience
- [Role-Playing Games at Jewish Summer Camps](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/role-playing-games-at-jewish-summer-camps/) - An excerpt from The Jews of Summer: Summer Camp and Jewish Culture in Postwar America
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- [The Revealer Podcast Episode 35: Vodou, Gender Variance, and Black Politics Today](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-revealer-podcast-episode-35-vodou-gender-variance-and-black-politics-today/) - How Vodou transcends gender and sexual binaries and helps people counter racism today
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- [The Revealer Podcast Episode 34: Evangelicals’ Anxieties and Their Politics](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-revealer-podcast-episode-34-evangelicals-anxieties-and-their-politics/) - Why do white evangelicals continue to feel threatened by societal changes?
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- [My Father’s Hardest Fight: Assisted Suicide and Hinduism](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/my-fathers-hardest-fight-assisted-suicide-and-hinduism/) - As one man hopes for physician-assisted death, his family learns about Hindu teachings on suicide
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- [Editor’s Letter: On Bystanders and the Pressing Issues of Our Times](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/editors-letter-on-bystanders-and-the-pressing-issues-of-our-times/) - The editor reflects on the play Leopoldstadt and what it reveals about today’s political situations
- [The Revealer Podcast Episode 33: Jewish Comedy](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-revealer-podcast-episode-33-jewish-comedy/) - How did American Jews develop a reputation as a funny people?
- [How Jewish Humor Has Changed Over Time](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/how-jewish-humor-has-changed-over-time/) - An excerpt from "Funny, You Don’t Look Funny: Judaism and Humor from the Silent Generation to Millennials"
- [Searching for God, One Bestseller at a Time](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/searching-for-god-one-bestseller-at-a-time/) - A conversation with Stephen Prothero about his book “God the Bestseller” and the pioneering editor behind some of the 20th century’s biggest books about religion
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- [In the Amazon, Religious Women Lead the Way](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/in-the-amazon-religious-women-lead-the-way/) - A Brazilian Catholic nun advocates for women and the environment -- and risks her life to protect the planet
- [Fetishizing Forgiveness](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/fetishizing-forgiveness/) - Expecting people to forgive in all situations can enable abuse and allow social injustice to continue
- [Editor’s Letter: Power, Race, and Religion](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/editors-letter-power-race-and-religion/) - The editor reflects on issues of power and race within and beyond religious communities
- [Suing the FBI and Uncovering a History of White Christian Nationalism](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/suing-the-fbi-and-uncovering-a-history-of-white-christian-nationalism/) - An excerpt from The Gospel of J. Edgar Hoover: How the FBI Aided and Abetted the Rise of White Christian Nationalism
- [The Revealer Podcast Episode 32: The FBI and White Christian Nationalism](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-revealer-podcast-episode-32-the-fbi-and-white-christian-nationalism/) - How did the FBI contribute to the rise in white Christian nationalism?
- [In the News: Religion, Race, and Power](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/in-the-news-religion-race-and-power/) - A roundup of the best writing about religion, race, and power so far in 2023
- ["Honk for Jesus" and the Influence of Black Megachurches Today](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/honk-for-jesus-and-the-influence-of-black-megachurches-today/) - A review of the film "Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul"
- [Tracing the Spiritual Tradition of Italy’s New Far Right](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/tracing-the-spiritual-tradition-of-italys-new-far-right/) - The legacy of some of pre-war Europe’s most radical thinkers survives in the rhetoric of its new right-wing heroes
- [White Women's Bodies and the Dilemma of Purity Culture Recovery](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/white-womens-bodies-and-the-dilemma-of-purity-culture-recovery/) - Leaders in the “post-purity” movement are promoting sexual liberation and unwittingly reinforcing white supremacy
- [Muppet Religion](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/muppet-religion/) - On the 30th anniversary of The Muppet Christmas Carol, one writer considers the Muppets’ many spiritual insights
- [Single Mothers, Sex, and Christian Nationalism](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/single-mothers-sex-and-christian-nationalism/) - An excerpt from the forthcoming book Preparing for War: The Extremist History of White Christian Nationalism—And What Comes Next
- [Post-Purity Culture: The New Online Frontier of Evangelical Sexual Ethics](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/post-purity-culture-the-new-online-frontier-of-evangelical-sexual-ethics/) - Both evangelicals and ex-evangelicals are turning to TikTok and other social media platforms to spread their messages about sex
- [Using Comedy to Talk about Religious Trauma](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/using-comedy-to-talk-about-religious-trauma/) - A review of Taylor Tomlinson’s Netflix special Look At You
- [Tainted Love: Reckoning with the Damage of Purity Culture](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/tainted-love-reckoning-with-the-damage-of-purity-culture/) - Could conservative Christian teachings about sex cause physiological and psychological problems that last into adulthood?
- [The False Messiahs of Space Exploration](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-false-messiahs-of-space-exploration/) - A review of Astrotopia: The Dangerous Religion of the Corporate Space Race
- [December Editor's Letter: Looking Back on 2022](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/december-editors-letter-looking-back-on-2022/) - The editor reflects on the past year and the Revealer’s new initiatives
- [The Revealer Podcast Episode 31: The Corporate Space Race and Religion](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-revealer-podcast-episode-31-the-corporate-space-race-and-religion/) - What are the connections between corporations going into outer space with religion?
- [Winter Reading Recommendations](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/winter-reading-recommendations-4/) - Our annual list of recommended books by Revealer writers
- [Sex, Scandals, and Buddhist Monks in Thailand](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/sex-scandals-and-buddhist-monks-in-thailand/) - Numerous scandals are altering the lives of Thai Buddhist monks
- [Bodily Autonomy, Reproductive Rights, and the Christian Patriarchy Movement](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/bodily-autonomy-reproductive-rights-and-the-christian-patriarchy-movement/) - Growing up as a “stay-at-home daughter” gave this writer insights into how Christian patriarchy is spreading from the fringes into the mainstream
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- [Revealer Event: Christian Nationalists, The Possibility of War, and the Future of American Democracy](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/revealer-event-christian-nationalists-the-possibility-of-war-and-the-future-of-american-democracy/) - You're invited to a free virtual event featuring Bradley Onishi, host of the Straight White American Jesus podcast
- [The Revealer Podcast Episode 30: Atheists in America](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-revealer-podcast-episode-30-atheists-in-america/) - A discussion about stigmas atheists face, why some have been drawn to right-wing politics, and how atheists can respond to Christian nationalism
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- [The Revealer Podcast Episode 28: Religious Cultural Appropriation](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-revealer-podcast-episode-28-religious-cultural-appropriation/) - A discussion about religious appropriation, from non-Muslims wearing “solidarity hijab” to white Americans teaching yoga
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- [Special Issue: Religion and the Climate Crisis](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/special-issue-religion-and-the-climate-crisis/) - The climate crisis could be the most important issue of our time
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- [When are Religious Exemptions Religious?](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-patient-body-when-are-religious-exemptions-religious/) - “The Patient Body” is a monthly column by Ann Neumann about issues at the intersection of religion and medicine.
- [In the News: Apocalypse, Saints & Breadsticks](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/in-the-news-apocalypse-saints-breadsticks/) - A round-up of recent religion news.
- [How Blasphemy Got Personal](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/how-blasphemy-got-personal/) - by Austin Dacey Fifty-six years before Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses thrust blasphemy into the spotlight of Western public discourse, the literary debut of a young medical doctor named Rashid Jahan was generating more excitement than she could have imagined.
- [16 August 2004 Daily Links](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/16-august-2004-daily-links/) - NPR reports on the controversial new "Buddha Bar" of Waikiki Beach, Hawaii, the name of which sparked a letter-writing campaign among Buddhists in Hawaii, who asked how Christians "would feel about seeing a 'Jesus Bar.'" Mary Kaye Ritz, of The Honolulu Advertiser, adds that the bar's owner is reconsidering its name after the protests raised by the Hawai'i
- [Traditionally Republican Themes](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/traditionally-republican-themes/) - The LA Times reports that Dem Bob Hertzberg is running for mayor of the city on "traditionally Republican themes." And -- in defiance of the "moral values" quota with which every paper seems to cover such stories -- there's nary a word of religion nor hot button issues such as gay marriage. That's refreshing. Reminds us
- [Cheap Grace & Dumb Journalism](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/cheap-grace-dumb-journalism/) - Washington Post's Dan Balz says incoming DNC chair Howard Dean "offers a secular vision of the world at a time when Democrats worry that they have ceded the values of faith and spirituality to Republicans." Huh? What? Since when did the "values of faith and spirituality" get reduced to anti-homosexuality, anti-abortion, preemptive war, and laissez-faire economics? Even
- [God's Own Website](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/gods-own-website-2/) - The Los Angeles Times reports on some of the goods and services on offer at the annual National Religious Broadcasters convention in Anaheim: biblical health care insurance policies, a raffle for a piece of brimstone from Gomorrah, photos with Jesus and church website design "the way God intended." The article isn't news so much as a
- [Dumb, Dumber, Dumbest](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/dumb-dumber-dumbest/) - There is no shortage of foolish rhetoric clamoring for the attention of poor Terri Schiavo, from both the self-declared "culture of life" and the smeared "culture of death." The mystery here is why the press is so unable, or unwilling, to distinguish the grandstanders and the crusaders from those with actual, relevant comments. We hope,
- [Same Old Disdain, Great New Flavor](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/same-old-disdain-great-new-flavor/) - We've been arguing with Caleb Stegall, an editor of our favorite small-o orthodox Christian website that likes to bash us, about how to write these little blurbs below the fold of The Revealer. Caleb charges us with using the cover of press criticism to throw elbows at religious ideas we don't like, such as Christian conservatism. We're hurt
- [Nicholas D. Kristof Shows Us His Cheeks](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/nicholas-d-kristof-shows-us-his-cheeks/) - Why, oh why, do they hate us so? Such is the question posed by earnest Nick Kristof in "A Slap in the Face," yesterday's column for The NYT. The "they" and the "us" are the masses and the media, separated now by a divide even wider than the "God gulf" Kristof diagnosed in early 2004, just
- [And They're Off!](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/and-theyre-off/) - Those who prefer their pope-news in the style of The Daily Racing Form will find an excellent guide to ponies -- Ratzinger ahead by a nose! -- compiled by Doug LeBlanc at Get Religion.
- [Who You Callin' Christian?](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/who-you-callin-christian/) - Mainline Protestants fight back: NYT "conservative beat" reporter David D. Kirkpatrick, with Sheryl Gay Stolberg, bring us signs of a liberal Christianity gearing up for battle, as representatives challenge Senator Bill Frist for his planned participation in an upcoming Christian right event designed to denigrate Democrats as against "people of faith." Frist is a member of the Presbyterian Church of
- [Radio On](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/radio-on/) - Revealer editor Jeff Sharlet discusses his cover story from the May issue of Harper's, "Soldiers of Christ: Inside America's Most Powerful Megachurch," tonight at 9:22 pm est with Janeane Garofalo and Sam Seder on Air America's "The Majority Report."
- [The Truth About "Jim Wallis"](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-truth-about-jim-wallis-2/) - What does the NYTimes' Elisabeth Bumiller do when presented with a story that reveals cracks in the Christian right? Why, she calls Jim Wallis, of course. Wallis, who possesses the power to channel the thoughts of several million non-Republican evangelicals, has become a quote machine, a stock figure in any news story about what the press calls the "Christian left."
- [Boycott Fundamentalism](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/boycott-fundamentalism/) - There's just no good term for the cultural movement and political force variously referred to as the "Christian Right," or "fundamentalists." "Christian conservatives," the term The Revealer uses most often, has the advantage of inoffensiveness, which means it's also bland -- that is, it doesn't capture either the vitality/threat (you choose) of the people to
- [The Shape of Journalism to Come](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-shape-of-journalism-to-come/) - Sharlet: This fall, I'll be teaching The Revealer as a text and as an assignment for a group of journalism graduate students here at New York University, as part of a seminar in magazine writing called "Journalism Faces Faith." As I finalize the syllabus, I'm hoping Revealer readers will help me select work with which
- [Journalism Faces Faith](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/journalism-faces-faith/) - Magazine Writing: Journalism Faces Faith By Jeff Sharlet Abbreviated In an era of culture war, holy war, and technological revolution, religion, in the true, broad sense, permeates at least half the stories in the news. Iraq, Iran, Israel -- we know those are religion stories. George W. Bush is a religion story. Stem cell research
- [Media Crit, the Next Generation](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/media-crit-the-next-generation/) - A letter to the editor of The Revealer: "i'm 13 in 8th grade and your article gives no information at all! i need information on a paper i have to do and you have been no help at all! -- kecia pratt,13, sandy creek new york"
- [How Do We Talk About the Religious Right](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/how-do-we-talk-about-the-religious-right/) - Ann Neumann: Speaking of Talk to Action: two of their writers, Chip Berlet andFredrick Clarkson, have posts up at Religion Dispatches. Clarkson writes, "Many challenges face those who think about, analyze and report on the Religious Right (let alone those who want to take appropriate political action.) One problem is acquiring some foundational knowledge. Another is finding generally
- [26 May 2005 Daily Links](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/26-may-2005-daily-links/) - Who Will Cry For a Witch? Lilith Saintcrow of God and Consequences reveals, with the help of the Indianapolis Star, an excellent religion story -- a judge forbidding Wiccan parents from teaching their kids their religion because it's not "mainstream" -- and Jason Pitzl-Waters of Wildhunt demands to know why God bloggers, notoriously obsessed with
- [In The News: A Muslim girl superhero, Navajo Mormons, Uighurs, Pat Robertson, and more!](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/in-the-news-a-muslim-girl-superhero-navajo-mormons-uighurs-pat-robertson-and-more/) - A round-up of recent religion & media news.
- [Bad Medicine](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/bad-medicine/) - “Is Religion Good Medicine?” asks the cover line on the latest Newsweek. It’s certainly good cover fodder, as is health. One wonders whether Newsweek felt the dynamic duo of popular subjects were such a sure winner that no further questioning was required. Claudia Kalb’s report dutifully touches the bases -- on the one hand, there’s not much scientific evidence;
- [27 July 2004 Daily Links](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/27-july-2004-daily-links/) - Igor Rotar, correspondent for Norway's Forum 18 News Service investigates a draft law in Kazakhstan on "combating extremist activity" that doesn't define what "extremism" is. Rotar writes that very few religious leaders are aware of the law's text though the proposed measures could be used against religious communities the state dislikes, such as the unregistered Baptists. "For
- [Eagles for Christ](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/eagles-for-christ/) - A Delaware state principal has apologized after allowing a Christian-themed assembly, featuring two pro-football players from the Philadelphia Eagles -- one of whom is the founder of the evangelical group, Athletes United for Christ -- to occur at a public high school in Newark. Event promoters later said they had made it clear what the
- [Freedom to Offend: When is Free Speech Hate Speech?](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/freedom-to-offend-when-is-free-speech-is-hate-speech/) - Stephen Pihlaja on free speech versus hate speech on YouTube.
- [Daily Links October 18 2004](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/daily-links-october-18-2004/) - Ayn Rand v. W. It's not often that we get to recommend Ayn Randian anything, much less the views of a Randian scholar on religion. But Chris Matthew Sciabarra breaks the mold, and his survey of contemporary religion and politics -- particularly Bush's religion and politics -- seen through the historical lenses of pietism and the liturgical
- [Art Imitating Life](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/art-imitating-life/) - Elissa Lerner: Even Dan Brown missed these clues. A recent study conducted by a Cornell professor and his Presbyterian minister brother of 52 paintings of the Last Supper made over the past 1,000 years offers artistic evidence of humanity's increase in food consumption. They discovered that portrayed bread sizes have increased by 23%, plates themselves have grown by
- [In the News: Emanuel A.M.E., Encyclicals, Etsy, and more!](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/in-the-news-emanuel-ame-encyclicals-etsy-and-more/) - A round-up of the week's religion news.
- [Review: Foreigners and Their Food](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/review-foreigners-and-their-food/) - Daniel Picus reviews Foreigners and Their Food: Constructing Otherness in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Law by David Freidenreich
- [In the News: Profiling, Prince, Peaceniks and more!](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/in-the-news-profiling-prince-peaceniks-and-more/) - A round-up of recent religion news.
- [But Will The Lab-Grown Meat Be Kosher?](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/but-will-the-lab-grown-meat-be-kosher/) - Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft examine religious responses to the possibility of eating meat grown in laboratories.
- [Godzilla, Born Again](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/godzilla-born-again/) - The original Godzilla, a parable of atomic hubris, is playing in America for the first time. Is its hero -- a suicide bomber -- even scarier than the monster? By Kathryn Joyce "I have become all things to all men so that by all possible means I might save some." --1 Corinthians 9:22 "I am
- [05 June 2004 Daily Links](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/05-june-2004-daily-links/) - 11:18 pm: Since Revealer editor Jeff Sharlet blurbed What Would Buffy Do? The Vampire Slayer as Spiritual Guide -- "At last, a Buffy book as smart as Buffy, the show. Riess has given us the key to understanding the subtle theology of slayage, but her book is meaningful beyond the Buffyverse, too -- What Would Buffy Do? is an erudite
- [07 June 2004 Daily Links](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/07-june-2004-daily-links/) - 9:50 pm: "They almost thought I was one of them or something," said Macaulay Culkin of the young Christians he met while researching his latest role, as a paraplegic skeptic among the Saved! Culkin and Saved! director Brian Dannelly talked with NPR's Terry Gross today about the teen-flick satire that's been called both "brilliant," and a "hateful, politically correct movie" (and
- [Save This](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/save-this/) - What's the difference between born-again and bad-to-the-bone? Saved! doesn't answer and the press doesn't care. By Patton Dodd Evangelicals on film occupy an odd if unsurprising position: they are almost always represented as aggressors. Consider Robert Duvall’s conflicted evangelist in The Apostle, John Swanbeck’s belligerent Baptist salesman in The Big Kahuna, and Robert Mitchum's evil preacher in Night of the Hunter—three
- [20 July 2004 Daily Links](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/20-july-2004-daily-links/) - News of the Weird (press releases): on Sept 12, 2004, in Washington, D.C., the National Council of Churches will sponsor a premiere screening of Davey and Goliath's Snowboard Adventure. This is not a joke. Which is what makes it funny. And kind of sad. / CORRECTION: A reader writes: "Your sarcastic put-down of the preview of the new
- [05 August 2004 Daily Links](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/05-august-2004-daily-links/) - BP News, the publication of the Southern Baptist Convention, and the anti-abortion LifeSite gleefully pick up the same quote from Julia Duin's article yesterday in The Washington Times -- William Donohue, president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights asking, "'Are [the Democrats] out of their minds? Would they hire a gay basher to reach out to homosexuals?'" The
- ["The Question of God" Questioned](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-question-of-god-questioned/) - Notes from Dr. Armand Nicholi’s militant past. By Jeff Sharlet PBS’s latest God offering -- "The Question of God," blogged below -- will no doubt be a well-researched program centered around the ideas and interpretations of its two stars -- Freud and C.S. Lewis -- and the man who has pitted them against one another, Dr. Armand M.
- [Ammo for his Enemy](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/ammo-for-his-enemy/) - Frank Rich accidentally writes a Republican's dream review. It's a shame the job of disassembling George W. Bush: Faith in the White House fell to The New York Times' Frank Rich. If just the facts of Rich's account of the film are correct, it's the worst kind of hagiography, thuggish and hokey at the same time. But the
- [The Passion of Constantine](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-passion-of-constantine/) - Next to Constantine, Mel Gibson's The Passion is an episode of Spongebob Squarepants. In Constantine, Keanu Reeves as the titular, demon-slaying hero visits a bar frequented by the "fallen," the decadence of whom we are to presume from their androgynous looks and queer interest in Keanu, once again playing a Christ-figure. (What, you didn't get that he was supposed
- [Hail, Coen! Finding Religion in the Films of Joel & Ethan Coen](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/hail-cohen-finding-religion-in-the-films-of-joel-ethan-coen/) - Geoffrey Pollick reviews a book about the Coen brothers alongside their new movie, Hail, Caesar!.
- ["Paradise Now" and Power of Transformation](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/paradise-now-and-power-of-transformation/) - By Meera Subramanian In Palestine, the enemy is many things. The enemy takes your land and holds you captive. The enemy launches bombs that leave the whitened stones of the West Bank in a mass of rubble that merges with the dust of the land. The enemy walks along the beachside boardwalk unaware of your
- [Narnia Chronicles](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/narnia-chronicles/) - By Erica Ogg Someone finally said it. A journalist has recognized the inherently complementary natures of Hollywood and C.S. Lewis. The upcoming movie, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, to be released by Disney next month, has been painted as just another front in the Christian right’s supposed invasion of
- [Focus at the Movies](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/focus-at-the-movies/) - 28 December 2005 The New York Times' John Leland moves beyond the neverending Narnia/Passion stories to find another trend among conservative Christian moviegoers: they're reviewing films they once would have protested or mentioned only to condemn, such as Brokeback Mountain, with one eye to their artistic merits, and another to their biblical fidelity. An interesting
- [Commie Harry](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/commie-harry/) - "What really makes these critics hate Million Dollar Baby is not its supposedly radical politics -- which are nonexistent -- but its lack of sentimentality. It is, indeed, no Rocky, and in our America that departure from the norm is itself a form of cultural radicalism." Frank Rich has Clint Eastwood's back in the Christian conservative culture skirmish over Million Dollar
- [Culture Cringe](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/culture-cringe/) - 08 February 2006 The BBC's otherwise invaluable digest on Religion and Ethics has been accused of having an "evident cultural cringe," when it came to explaining Islam. The site's page on Islam, charged a former executive, reads like it was written by a devout Muslim, stating as fact that Mohammed met with an angel: a stark contrast from
- [Greening Christianity, Whitewashing the News](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/greening-christianity-whitewashing-the-news/) - Buzzing its way through the British media is the recent announcement that three Christian faith-based organizations have joined together with 14 “traditional” environmentalist groups in order to guilt Downing Street into reducing its CO2 emissions. “Stop Climate Chaos” brings together the Catholic Agency for Overseas Development, Christian Aid and the evangelical organization Tearfund with groups
- [Evergreen Like a Pine-Tree Air Freshener](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/evergreen-like-a-pine-tree-air-freshener/) - For how long of a period can one group -- say environmentalists -- be described as in the process of "gaining a new ally" -- call 'em evangelicals? If it was a small-town local rag looking for filler stories, the counterintuitive hook -- Bible-thumpers and tree-huggers get together! -- could probably still seem fresh months
- [In the News: Satanism, Sacred Music, Shasta Seekers, and more!](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/in-the-news-satanism-sacred-music-shasta-seekers-and-more/) - A round-up of the week's religion news.
- [12 July 2004 Daily Links](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/12-july-2004-daily-links/) - UPN affiliate refuses to air a new reality show called Amish in the City; conservative Rep. Joe Pitts (R-Pa.) says Take that, liberal media! Meanwhile, "Stop 'Amish in the City'" (what, they should stay on the farm?) stands up and fights for the pacifist sect -- without asking them their opinion. Apparently, they don't have one -- much of the press, including The
- [Daily Links 04 November 2004](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/daily-links-04-november-2004/) - Canterbury Ale Monks and friars have long been among the best brewmasters, and the old heart of the Church of England, Canterbury Cathedral, has acknowledged that with the return of a "cathedral brew" to the church, not seen since 1828. Ohio Schools Get God From the state that brought you the next four years...The Columbus,
- [AIO's Red Pill](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/aios-red-pill-2/) - The attorneys involved in the dispute between the University of North Carolina and an evangelical Christian fraternity at the school, Alpha Iota Omega, have failed to reach a compromise as directed by a federal judge, and the case will now be decided by Judge Frank Bullock Jr. AIO, with the support of a Republican representative and the Alliance
- [Who's Afraid of the Holy Ghost?](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/whos-afraid-of-the-holy-ghost-2/) - In a set of guidelines for religious education released this week in England, teachers have been instructed to avoid frightening children with certain explanations of religious practice, such as describing the Eucharist as becoming the blood and body of Christ, because this could suggest that Christians are cannibalistic, or any mention of the spooky phrase "Holy Ghost"
- [Xian Ed 101: How to Eat Spotted Owl](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/xian-ed-101-how-to-eat-spotted-owl/) - "When asked how they heard about Summit [Christian defense workshops for college students], several students can't remember. 'Everyone knows about Summit,' one of them says." Everyone. But if that doesn't include you -- and if you care about religion and politics -- read Thomas Bartlett's account of the organization in The Chronicle of Higher Education
- [Kansas Chill](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/kansas-chill/) - 06 December 2005 Although University of Kansas religion professor Paul Mirecki's controversial course, "Special Topics in Religion: Intelligent Design and Creationism," has been cancelled at the professor's own request, Republican Kansas State Representative Brenda Landwehr is unsatisfied. The course, originally named to identify Intelligent Design as a "religious mythology," became news after the publication of
- [Suburb v. Suburb](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/suburb-v-suburb/) - 12 December 2005 The Washington Post travels to Cobb County, Georgia, the Atlanta suburb with a remarkable proclivity for passing resolutions, filing lawsuits, and getting sued in the name of religious and social culture war issues du jour. This year, no surprise, it's anti-Darwin stickers in school textbooks -- an addition that's led to a
- [Classics for Christians](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/classics-for-christians/) - 13 December 2005 With yesterday's hearing on the motion to dismiss a case brought by Calvary Chapel Christian Schools against the University of California, over the university's refusal to accredit several of the Christian high school's courses, Mike Weiss of The San Francisco Chronicle investigates the background of the plaintiffs' lead lawyer, Wendell Bird, a
- [UW Bible Study](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/uw-bible-study/) - 13 December 2005 Today, the Wisconsin legislature will meet for an informational session regarding the "Bible-studies ban" controversy at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, where a resident assistant was recently forbidden from hosting Bible studies in his dorm room, in accordance with a school policy that prohibits RAs from leading religious activities in order to
- [Philosophy of Design](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/philosophy-of-design/) - 11 January 2006 Intelligent Design gets set for another trial, with a group of California parents suing a rural high school which introduced the evolution alternative as a philosophy elective. The new case, if it holds up, could force a more nuanced discussion of the merits of I.D., as previous lawsuits have protested the teaching of
- [Constitutional Abstention](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/constitutional-abstention/) - 11 January 2006 In a lawsuit filed last month in Georgia, a 10th grade student, Jessica Bradley, and her father aresuing a private Christian high school, Covenant Christian Academy, for expelling Bradley for "sexual immorality" after the teenage girl kissed another girl at an off-campus slumber party last spring. Though none of the other girls involved
- [Salt Lake Evolution](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/salt-lake-evolution/) - 23 January 2006 The Utah Senate initially approved a bill last Friday that would make public school teachers include anti-evolution caveats when teaching the about the origins of life: a position the ACLU, which opposes the bill, has likened to the textbook stickers included in biology textbooks in Cobb County, Georgia. A court later ruled that the
- [Wingspread Declaration](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/wingspread-declaration/) - 27 January 2006 Scott Jaschik from Inside Higher Ed reports on "The Wingspread Declaration on Religion and Public Life: Engaging Higher Education," a manifesto-in-progress concerning the role of religion on college campuses. The declaration, written by the Society for Values in Higher Education, calls for colleges to provide students with "religious literacy" across the curriculum, in disciplines
- [18 June 2004 Daily Links](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/18-june-2004-daily-links/) - In The Indian Express, T.V.R. Shenoy tallies the influence religion has on "the two greatest democracies on this planet," squaring the Pledge controversy in the United States against Indian debates over Hindutva and calls there to "'de-saffronise' the curriculum." He also leads The Revealer to this overlooked story: "U.S. Catholics Outsource Prayers to India." 10:02 am: Searching for the most tortured
- [Editor's Letter: Intersecting Identities](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/editors-letter-intersecting-identities/) - The Revealer’s Editor writes about conflicting identities and December holidays
- [Editor's Letter: New Year, New Things, and Pressing Issues](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/editors-letter-new-year-new-things-and-pressing-issues/) - The Editor shares new features coming to the Revealer and reflects on some of today’s urgent concerns
- [Special Issue Editor's Letter: Religion & Sex Abuse Within and Beyond the Catholic Church](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/special-issue-editors-letter-religion-sex-abuse-within-and-beyond-the-catholic-church/) - If we are going to understand this pervasive problem and change our culture, we must address this issue directly.
- [On Forgiveness, Clergy Abuse, and the Need for New Understandings](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/on-forgiveness-clergy-abuse-and-the-need-for-new-understandings/) - What should survivors do when the Church asks them for forgiveness?
- [Tending to One Another](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-patient-body-tending-to-one-another/) - “The Patient Body” is a monthly column by Ann Neumann about issues at the intersection of religion and medicine.
- [In the News: The Crusades, Anti-Vaxxers, Chocolate Gods, and more!](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/in-the-news-the-crusades-anti-vaxxers-chocolate-gods-more/) - A round-up of recent religion and media stories in the news.
- [O Canada!](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-patient-body-o-canada/) - “The Patient Body” is a monthly column by Ann Neumann about issues at the intersection of religion and medicine.
- [04 August 2004 Daily Links](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/04-august-2004-daily-links/) - Vijay Dutt of the U.K.'s Hindustan Times reports that some "militant" Muslim doctors in inner-city areas with large ethnic population, such as Leeds, Bradford and London, are refusing to treat patients with sex diseases and AIDS, viewing the diseases as divine punishments caused by sinful behaviour. As a result of Islamic groups that have reportedly increased their activities
- [10 July 2005 Daily Links](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/10-july-2005-daily-links/) - Christianity Ha-Ha: In about 36 hours, 1,000 pastors from around the country are coming to my megachurch, where I have worked for the last six years. They are coming for a pastors' conference to learn how to run their churches more effectively. My job is to make them laugh... Alt weeklies and alte kackers: An
- [The Call to Theory](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-call-to-theory/) - Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft reflects on recent calls for “the intellectual” and the fate of culture in the state of Trump.
- [09 June 2004 Daily Links](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/09-june-2004-daily-links/) - 10:50 am: A story by Deb McCown in The Washington Times illustrates a potential rift in the alleged Republican religion lock. What matters more to conservatives -- freedom of faith, or small government? The issue at hand is a Montana church under fire from liberal groups for violating the state's election laws by devoting a service to politics and petitions (against
- [08 July 2004 Daily Links](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/08-july-2004-daily-links/) - The Solid Rock Cruisers, a Christian car club based in Auburn, Washington, will hold their annual "Believe in the Son" car show this Saturday. "'It's as if (Christian stores) have been playing college football, and at halftime, they came back to the field to see--whoa!--the NFL has showed up, and is interested in playing on our field,'"
- [13 July 2004 Daily Links](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/13-july-2004-daily-links/) - An Australian man accused of trying to hijack a commercial aircraft to crash it into the Walls of Jerusalem National Park in northern Tasmania, yesterday told a court that he believed he was on a mission from God and that the hijacking would rid the world of the Devil. Read more Danish pastor Thorkild Grosboell faces an ecclesiastic
- [21 July 2004 Daily Links](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/21-july-2004-daily-links/) - Barry Goldwater biographer Rick Perlstein attends a Bush campaign party to meet those who see W. as a great man; nay, a god: "I ask Tom what role he sees in America for nonbelievers. 'Well, if people are of an opinion that their God is supreme and are willing to burn your house down to prove it or
- [The Only Truth that Mattered](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-only-truth-that-mattered/) - "As my father describes it, encountering his daughter en route to self-asphyxiation was enough to startle him to his senses. The next day, he moved out of the apartment and into a closet-sized studio at the Zen Center, deciding that Buddhism would be his salvation. He participated in the sesshins held there, extended periods of
- [29 July 2004 Daily Links](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/29-july-2004-daily-links/) - A report by the Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis found a correspondence between national prosperity and religion -- more specifically, belief in hell -- Reuters reports. "'A belief in hell tends to mean less corruption and less corruption tends to mean a higher per capita income,'" stated the report, which was based on data from the
- [Bible Porn](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/bible-porn/) - Erik Hanson: "Once, when I was eight, I knelt down at my bed alongside my mother, admitted I was a sinner, and asked Jesus Christ into my heart. Once, when I was eleven, I stood up at a Bible campfire and promised my peers and elders that I would earnestly strive to bring my unsaved
- [26 August 2004 Daily Links](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/26-august-2004-daily-links/) - The Pope says "No" to cosmic energy and tragic spiritual vacuums. South Africa's Inkatha Freedom Party -- a long-time adversary of the African National Congress party, which assumed power after the end of apartheid -- is emphasizing its "center-right" politics and hinting at an ANC defection to the IFP, reports The Mail and Guardian. The more
- [30 August 2004 Daily Links](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/30-august-2004-daily-links/) - The Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, expressed frustration with "the rawness of the anger" which characterized the divisions in the Church of England and the worldwide Anglican communion, which has split over the issue of ordaining homosexual priests. "'While we may disagree,'" said Williams, "'we need to learn how to do it with a bit more
- [02 September 2004 Daily Links](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/02-september-2004-daily-links/) - From the Kerry war room, on the uses and abuses of scriptural metaphor. Melanie Hunter of CNSNews reports the story of a Reuters editor, Todd Eastham, who sent a critical email response to a press release issued by the National Right to Life Committee. The anti-abortion group questioned the editor's "journalistic integrity," and said "'We can only wonder at how such
- [23 September 2004 Daily Links](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/23-september-2004-daily-links/) - "'If one'" -- that'd be a gay person -- "'ever looks at me'" -- and that would be Jimmy Swaggart -- "'like that, I'm going to kill him and tell God he died.'" GetReligion traces the history of Swaggart's overheated "'Louisiana mouth.'" Iraq's most powerful Shiite leader, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Husseini al-Sistani, has threatened to withdraw his
- [Hey, Baby, You Wanna Check Out My Sword?](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/hey-baby-you-wanna-check-out-my-sword/) - Reuters reports on the Christian "warrior" movement, inspired by author John Eldredge's bestselling Wild At Heart and descended from poet Robert Bly's Iron Johnmovement. Some members commission replicas of the sword wielded by Mel Gibson as William Wallace in Braveheart. Others simply recast their entire lives in military terms. Journalist Nigel Hunt reports with a gee-whiz-neato appreciation for the movement,
- [God Bless America -- Or Else](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/god-bless-america-or-else/) - Religious fascism at Yankee Stadium? Evangelical scholar and writer Randall Balmer says it's so when singing "God Bless America" becomes a compulsory part of the ballgame. On the Christian site, The Matthew's House Project.
- [12 July 2005 Daily Links](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/12-july-2005-daily-links/) - Neil Young, Superstar: Doug LeBlanc at Get Religion is reporting that Neil Young and NPR are teaming up to kill God. That's because Doug doesn't know that Neil Young is God. Middle ground blahs: The NYT's Laurie Goodstein turns in an entirely servicable piece on the growing number of evangelical chaplains in the Air Force.
- [What's So Secret About Islam?](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/whats-so-secret-about-islam/) - By Vanessa Larson In August, U.S. News and World Report put out a “Collector’s Edition” called “Secrets of Islam: The essential guide to the world’s fastest growing religion.” While the endeavor seems eminently well-intentioned, the title is perhaps the magazine’s most problematic aspect. Why the need for the Orientalist-sounding word “secrets”? Does Islam really contain
- [How the New Yorker Makes Rick Warren Safe for Secular Consumption](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/how-the-new-yorker-makes-rick-warren-safe-for-secular-consumption/) - By J.J. Helland Too often, the media views the subject of religion in America as a strictly sociological study. Faith is to be interpreted on economic, political and cultural terms -- anything other than as a significant set of religious beliefs that informs people’s lives. The most recent example of this approach is found in
- [We Are the Others](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/we-are-the-others/) - The generalizations used in the new "Religion is bad for society" study are a step backwards for social science. By Hally Hall-I Chu In the most recent issue of The Journal of Religion and Society, social scientist Gregory Paul published a study on the correlation between religiosity and societal problems in developed countries of the
- [Playing for Him](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/playing-for-him/) - So much for love of the game. Nicole Greenfield Baseball is a religious sport, there's no doubt about it. During the course of a game, we see players mutter prayers before stepping into the batter’s box, point up to God after hitting one out of the park, or cross themselves after sliding safely into second.
- [Say Little Prayers](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/say-little-prayers/) - News of the Silly: England's General Register Office has revised rules that banned all religious references from civil marriage ceremonies to now allow the incidentally religious references to God, prayer, or grace that tend to appear in popular wedding songs like Aretha Franklin's "I Say a Little Prayer."
- [07 July 2004 Daily Links](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/07-july-2004-daily-links/) - If you were busy celebrating the land of the free this past July 4th, you probably missed Elena Lappin's Kafkaesque report in the NYT on her attempt to practice journalism without an "information visa." We used to be familiar with Lappin as editor of the excellent British magazine, Jewish Quarterly; now, she's writing for the Guardian. Apparently, a resume like
- [09 July 2004 Daily Links](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/09-july-2004-daily-links/) - "In April, Julee Lacey, 33, a Fort Worth, TX, mother of two, went to her local CVS drugstore for a last-minute Pill refill. She had been getting her prescription filled there for a year, so she was astonished when the pharmacist told her, 'I personally don't believe in birth control and therefore I'm not going
- [14 July 2004 Daily Links](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/14-july-2004-daily-links/) - You can call Rick Santorum "'a hater,'" but he'll still argue that he's "'a lover... a lover of traditional families and children who deserve the right to have a mother and father.'" The New York Times's Carl Hulse reports on the scramble among backers of the "Gay-Marriage Ban" to register a last soundbite before the proposed amendment--which is
- [Scalping](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/scalping/) - There's an echo of faith -- violent, scary faith -- in this AP report on a scalping in Idaho. A 26-year-old woman scalped a 16-year-old girl because the girl had allegedly been disrespectful to women. Both belonged to what AP identifies as a "punk clique." Sounds like a secular sect to The Revealer. AP seems puzzled by this
- [NYT: "Seen By Some As A Cult"](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/nyt-seen-by-some-as-a-cult/) - Wisconsin police are focusing on the role of religion in Terry Ratzmann's murderous attack on his own church, reports The New York Times. Let's hope the police are doing a better job than the Times. "The Living Church of God," writes Jodi Wilgoren, "an offshoot of a sect seen by some as a cult, the Worldwide Church of God, is
- [A History of Sex Abuse in the Protestant Imagination](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/a-history-of-sex-abuse-in-the-protestant-imagination/) - Protestant denominations also have structural abuse problems--and that isn't new.
- [Jews, Sex Positivity, and Abuse](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/jews-sex-positivity-and-abuse/) - Stories of Judaism’s sex positivity can get in the way of seeing abuse within Jewish communities.
- [American Catholic Studies: Forum on Catholic Sex Abuse and the Study of Religion](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/american-catholic-studies-forum-on-catholic-sex-abuse-and-the-study-of-religion/) - What do scholars of Catholicism have to say about the abuse crisis?
- [The Guru-Disciple Relationship and the Complications of Consent](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-guru-disciple-relationship-and-the-complications-of-consent/) - Is a devotee who promised to serve a guru able to assert her defiance or her consent?
- [Black Catholics, Racism, and the Sex Abuse Crisis: A Personal Reflection](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/black-catholics-racism-and-the-sex-abuse-crisis-a-personal-reflection/) - Discussions of the Catholic sex abuse crisis that do not consider race are incomplete.
- [Priests That Moved: Catholicism, Colonized Peoples, and Sex Abuse in the U.S. Southwest](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/priests-that-moved-catholicism-colonized-peoples-and-sex-abuse-in-the-u-s-southwest/) - How should we understand the higher rates of clergy sexual abuse in dioceses with large Native American populations?
- [The Problem with Spotlights: Rethinking Our Response to Clergy Sexual Abuse](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-problem-with-spotlights-rethinking-our-response-to-clergy-sexual-abuse/) - Americans repeatedly ask new waves of Catholic survivors to come forward, only to abandon them.
- [Daily Links: Grand Jury Duty Blues](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/daily-links-grand-jury-duty-blues/) - I'm three weeks down, one to go. Serving justice in Brooklyn has kept me quiet, but here's what I'm reading between testimonials: Jane Iwamura at The Scoop on Tupac's undead appearance at Coachella. One wonders if Mark Oppenheimer just didn't have any critical thinking to apply to his recent review of Ross Douthat's new book, Bad Religion, or if the NYT editors just sliced it right out for the sake of their home-base columnist. (Regardless, I send a shout-out to one beat man who knows what real bad religion means, Pete Finestone. Hey Stone, wanna write a review for us? Word.) Ahem! Mennonites are exploring their "martyr complex," a trait "many Mennonites carry—especially ethnic German and Swiss Mennonites—and the consequences of that mindset." Remember when Sojourners backed away from the gays? Becky Garrison does. It was a true grit moment, one the "faith in action for social justice" magazine sadly failed to pass, a turning point in our desire to like Sojourners for all their ramble, an end to our guilt for never really getting Jim Wallis' swagger. New crits on the religion chopping block. Religion & Politics launched this week. The Grand Mufti of the Republic of Tatarstan recounts his version of the past year. Church artwork is moving to where the devout are; from Europe to Latin America, Africa and Asia. What do atheist billboards do? Fredrick Clarkson writes at Women's ENews about the latest doings of the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice.
- [Hallelujah, We're Born Again!](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/hallelujah-were-born-again/) - Back in 2003, when dinosaurs roamed the Internet, The Revealer was pretty novel.
- [Rand Paul and the Tsunami of Biblical Proportions](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/rand-paul-and-the-tsunami-of-biblical-proportions/) - Probably the most astute journalist commenting on Rand Paul's sweep in Kentucky is friend of The Revealer, Adele Stan. At AlterNet, Stan writes that Paul's victory, "represents the first real toe-hold that the old lions of the New Right have really gotten inside the Republican Party proper," and puts his recent criticism of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and lightening-speed walk-back, into perspective by tracing Rand's affiliations to some alarming but deep-rooted political organizations like the John Birch Society and Howard Phillips' Conservative Caucus.
- [Red Crystal](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/red-crystal/) - 06 December 2005 Red Cross, Red Crescent, Red Star of David, Red Crystal? Diplomats from 192 countries are meeting to discuss a third symbol (the Red Star of David is not officially recognized) that could be used by the International Red Cross as a recognized neutral ambulance emblem that would guarantee rescue workers safe access
- [Virgins and Whores](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/virgins-and-whores/) - Mary Valle: Nick Kristof continues his "nuns rock!" crusade to convince everyone that it's not all Catholics that are like that. Just some. Point taken, Mr. Krisof, but this good Catholics/bad Catholics line of thinking is a little worrisome. It's like "No, you're not a slut, you're a real woman," or "There are black people, and there are niggers," or "You can be gay as long as you're not, like, flamboyant." I agree with him: there are a lot of great people truly doing the Lord's work under the huge tent that is the Roman Catholic Church. And not everyone's molesting kids and lying about it. But I think he might be glossing over some stuff in his zeal to prop up the "little ladies" as examples of the "right" kinds of Catholics, an effort which, in itself, is a bit patronizing.
- [Hog-Driving Cleric](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/hog-driving-cleric/) - From Michael Miller's profile of the new Archbishop of Miami, Thomas Wenski, printed this week in the Miami New Times: Wenski is unlike anything the church has ever seen. He's a hard-charging, hog-driving cleric and licensed pilot who speaks six languages fluently. In the past seven months, he has come on like a blessed freight train, booting dozens of longtime priests from their too-comfortable parishes and suing the City of Miami for $140 million. He's risked the ire of Miami Cubans by engaging the island's communist government and had his phone tapped by the Castro regime. Just two weeks ago, he helped open the first seminary in Cuba since the revolution. But on social issues, he has become a rabid, Tea Party-style conservative whose ban on even discussing condoms might have led to hundreds of Haitians contracting HIV.
- [Moral Norms for Immoral Behaviors](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/moral-norms-for-immoral-behaviors/) - From the 2004 article "The Truth About Condoms" by Opus Dei Father Martin Rhonheimer, Professor of Ethics and Political Philosophy at the School of Philosophy of the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome and, according to the Catholic Weekly, America, a member of Cardinal Ratzinger's inner circle: But if they ignore this teaching [that homosexuals should "live in continence like any other unmarried person"], and are at risk from HIV, should they use condoms to prevent infection? The moral norm condemning contraception as intrinsically evil does not apply to these cases. Nor can there be church teaching about this; it would be simply nonsensical to establish moral norms for intrinsically immoral types of behaviour. Should the Church teach that a rapist must never use a condom because otherwise he would additionally to the sin of rape fail to respect "mutual and complete personal self-giving and thus violate the Sixth Commandment"? Of course not.
- [The Only Female Catholic Priest in New York](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-only-female-catholic-priest-in-new-york/) - Read Revealer Jo Piazza's latest on Gabriella Velardi Ward, a 63 year-old self-described Roman Catholic Woman Priest and her home church, Praxedis, at WSJ's Metropolis
- [My Catholic Conscience](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/my-catholic-conscience/) - We've been here before. And no, it didn't work then either. by Jon O'Brien Like others, I am deeply concerned about recent moves in Congress that would restrict access to reproductive healthcare services, especially for poor women. The situation reminds me of other experiments where a few people with extreme views sought to pass policy that impacted a significantly wider group of people—with devastating consequences. Below, I will recount how the hierarchy of the Catholic church hijacked a process that was on the verge of overturning the complete ban on contraception. But today, in the U.S. Congress, an antichoice cabal in the Republican Party is seeking to prevent poor women accessing federally funded family planning and other reproductive health services. There are currently three bills that would do just that: the “No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act” (HR 3), the “Protect Life Act” (HR 358) and the “Title X Abortion Provider Prohibition Act” (HR 217). They, along with the budget which passed the House and did not include crucial family planning funding will severely impact the lives of millions of American families. As a Catholic, the fact that the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has supported these attacks on healthcare services for poor women adds insult to injury.
- [Using "Demographic Winter" To Thwart Global Access to Family Planning](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/using-demographic-winter-to-thwart-global-access-to-family-planning/) - What was once a rallying cry by U.S. evangelical organizations to limit access to birth control here and abroad (see former Revealer managing editor Kathryn Joyce's 2008 article at The Nation, "Missing: The 'Right' Babies") is now a Vatican topic for discussion at a UN panel.
- [Abuse of Power Comes as No Surprise:The Causes and Context of Sexual Abuse of Minors by Catholic Priests](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/abuse-of-power-comes-as-no-surprisethe-causes-and-context-of-sexual-abuse-of-minors-by-catholic-priests/) - by Frances Kissling This past week, criminologists at the John Jay College of Criminal Law released a numbers crunching, statistically dense, spiritually troubling 144 page report which aimed to identify the causes and context of sexual abuse of minors by Catholic priests between 1950 to 2002. The report was commissioned by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops who have developed a partnership with John Jay College in their efforts to understand and prevent the sexual abuse of children by priests and sisters subsequent to the Boston Globe’s 2002 expose of the extent of sexual abuse and the inaction and cover up of the abuse by church leaders. It cost somewhere between 1.4 and 1.8 million dollars, half paid by the bishops’ conference, the other half underwritten by religious orders and Catholic organizations.
- [Whole Lotta Testosterone](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/whole-lotta-testosterone/) - by Mary Valle I don’t think that men and women are the same. I think we have a lot in common, being humans. However, if you look around, you’ll agree that there’s a big difference between us and that difference is testosterone. Skyscapers. The space program, with its great missiles impregnating the silvery, virginal moon. Football. War. The Washington Monument, for Pete’s sake. Guns, archery, race-car driving. Fireworks. Abrahamaic religion, with its cold, lordly sky-gods and “pure” “untainted” virgins. Agriculture. Mono-anything. New cars, and that “new car smell.” Breaking seals on bottles of shampoo and ketchup. Beer caps popping off, and the foamy explosion running over the lip of the bottle. Synthetic pressurized whipped cream products, and anything having to do with them. Onward, into infinity. These are all the byproducts of testosterone, which can really change a person, since we all do start out female.
- [Our Daily Links: Real Authentic Edition](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/our-daily-links-real-authentic-edition/) - A statement on the global economy by "a rather small office in the Roman Curia" is causing some interesting commentary--by George Weigel, EJ Dionne and Talk to Action's Greg Metzger. At issue is the question: who speaks for the Pope? Former Revealer managing editor, Kathryn Joyce, is sourced in an article about corporal punishment and Christianity. The article examines a number of abuse cases in the US that have led to the deaths of children, including the influence of Michael Pearl's book, Training up a Child. (Here's a related NYT article.) Is Socialism the same as Mormonism? You know, not godly?
- [Spice Up Your (Church) Life](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/spice-up-your-church-life/) - Ashley Baxstrom: Apparently, the Roman Catholic Church is at risk of death by boredom. Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, President of the Pontifical Council for Culture, has told priests they need to pump up their sermons with the scandalous parts of the Bible or face becoming “irrelevant." Because, you know, Catholics don’t have enough scandal to deal with already. Speaking at an event in Rome, the cardinal emphasized the need for priests to keep up with modern media and communicative processes, admonishing them to remember that their congregants are “children of the television and the internet.” While what that doesn't means for Ravasi is that Catholics today are better informed, or more curious, or can take in more information faster, he does promote priests’ use of new media. “Communicating faith doesn’t just take place through sermons,” he says, “It can be achieved through the 140 characters of a Twitter message.” But it seems that the digital age requires a kind of negative adaptation. Don’t challenge your followers – use simple stories to talk to them. In the fast-paced world of new media, he’s saying, there’s no time for thought or argument; rather, “cut to the heart of the matter, resort to narratives and colour.” The Bible is full of stories and symbols – SCANDALOUS ONES, don’t forget – that excite listeners’ passions. And that, apparently, is how you motivate the spirit.
- [Playing God](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/playing-god/) - Virtually every significant medical advancement has been met with cries that scientists and doctors are trying to "play God." From the first heart transplant in South Africa on December 3, 1967 to the development of CPR, defibrillators and respirators in the late 1960s and early 70s, society, often led by religious leaders, has waved it's hands and proclaimed that man has gotten too big for the britches God gave him. Which is why it's refreshing to hear that last week's announcement that Craig Venter and his team had created “the first self-replicating species we’ve had on the planet whose parent is a computer” had some believers rejoicing
- [The Buddha Boy and the Old Stone Bridge](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-buddha-boy-and-the-old-stone-bridge/) - 01 December 2005 Nick Street: The American press hasn’t shown much interest in the Buddha Boy. A ring of commerce and debris has sprung up around the boy, whose mother claims he has spent the past six months in a meditative pose beneath a tree in a remote forest in Nepal. After he had an
- [Rabbas Make the List](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/rabbas-makes-the-list/) - Newsweek's annual "50 Most Influential Rabbis in America" list is just out and Debra Nussbaum Cohen at the Forward's "The Sisterhood" blog's takes it to task: You may notice that there are just 5 women deemed important enough to have made the cut — that’s only 10 percent. And yet, it’s an improvement over last year, when there were just three women out of the 50 rabbis chosen.
- [Schooling Muslims in Northern Nigeria: Politics, Policies and Conclusions](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/schooling-muslims-in-northern-nigeria-politics-policies-and-conclusions/) - by Alex Thurston Government-run Islamic schools, then, are to be a source of “counter-radicalization” as well as a means of moving almajirai into more “productive” schools. But the policy is unlikely to succeed.
- [Let's Get Radical: a review of The Light In Her Eyes](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/lets-get-radical-a-review-of-the-light-in-her-eyes/) - by Rachel Riederer It’s difficult for me to conceive of the memorization of scripture as even a mildly progressive act, let alone a radical one. But The Light in Her Eyes...sets out to prove that it is.
- [Partisan Peace](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/partisan-peace/) - Last fall, when church-state watchdog groups warned politically-active churches that overt campaigning for one candidate or another might cost them their tax-exempt status, conservative talking heads such as Jay Sekulow cried persecution at the hands of "left-wing thugs" selectively targeting conservative churches. A year later, the issue has resurfaced, but not as Sekulow so flamboyantly
- [In the News: Borders & Beyond](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/in-the-news-borders-beyond/) - A roundup of recent religion writing
- [How Not To Do What We Always Do](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/how-not-to-do-what-we-always-do-a-review-of-alpha-god-by-hector-a-garcia/) - Donovan O. Schaefer reviews Alpha God: The Psychology of Religious Violence and Oppression by Hector A. Garcia.
- [Conscience With a Mission](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/conscience-with-a-mission/) - In the wake of the November excommunication and demotion of Arizona hospital administrator Sister Margaret McBride, for approving an emergency termination of a pregnancy to save a woman's life, the ACLU has sent a letter to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), a division of Kathleen Sebelius' Department of Health and Human Services. The letter requests that two laws, not subject to provider refusal clauses -- so-called "conscience clauses" -- be enforced at denominational health facilities or that non-compliant facilities should lose their Medicare and Medicaid funding.
- [Cairo Cops](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/cairo-cops/) - My friend, Sam, who live son a houseboat on the Nile writes: As the protesters marched forward some policemen were left behind. About half a dozen or so jumped the fence onto the property next door. They were terrified. These were not the the boys with the riot gear. They were 40 something officers with stars on their shoulders. Rocks were being thrown at them as they hid on the side of the boat. They were between the protesters and the nile. As the crowd moved forward, they stayed on the ledge of the boat for hours. Asking me for water, and at one point, a change of clothes so that they could go home in civilian garb. "Please brother, can you throw us a used robe... an old dirty one is fine," yelled a desperate man, who a few minutes before was commanding forces agaist civilians. My dilema was not whether to give it to them or not... I wanted them to leave. It was that the clothes that I brought to Cairo were my favorite ones. I wasn't really ready to part with them. I asked them to hold on while I went through my closet and found "my cleanest dirty shirts." I turned on my deck light, one floor above them, to throw the clothes over. This frightened them because they were no longer in the dark. They asked me to turn off the light while I threw, over a 10 foot gap in the Nile, some American Apparel t-shirts and thermals on to the 12 inch ledge that they we standing on. They changed and and asked for a shopping bag to place their uniforms. They stood on the ledge for another two hours before getting the courage to walk through the crowds and return home as the entire Cairo police force had just done.
- [We Are All Egyptians](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/we-are-all-egyptians/) - by Yasmin Moll There are tens of thousands of Egyptians in Tahrir today. And there are millions of Egyptians who are not. If we believe some international media outlets and domestic opposition papers, these groups make up two distinct camps: those for democracy and those for Mubarak. And if we believe the state press, the dividing line is between trouble-making youths allied with “foreign agents” and law-abiding citizens. From the vantage point of those of us in Cairo, however, the picture is much more complex, fluid and messy. And simplifying it for the sake of a sexy story or a catchy headline risks marginalizing the many Egyptians from all classes and backgrounds whose political stances don’t fit neatly into one or the other of these categories. Take my friend Mansour.* On January 28th he and I attended the protest downtown after Friday prayer. Marching peacefully along with hundreds of others up Kasr Al-Aini street, we were met with a volley of tear-gas fired by the central security police blocking access to Tahrir Square.
- [Terry Jones Takes Dearborn](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/terry-jones-takes-dearborn/) - Yesterday Terry Jones held another rally in Dearborn, Michigan, outside the Arab International Festival, to raise awareness for the encroachment of Islam in America. Abby Ohlheiser was there. This was the plan: Terry Jones would speak at City Hall then march with his supporters up to the annual Arab International Festival in Dearborn, MI, a city with one of the largest Arab populations in the country. The walk is 13 blocks. He got half a block before police put him in a car. Six protesters from the affirmative action group By Any Means Necessary (BAMN) were arrested. The rest stood in his path, yelling, getting as close as they could without touching. Jones wore a bullet proof vest under his white t-shirt, as did his friend and fellow speaker pastor Wayne Sapp. Last time Jones was in Dearborn, he was pelted with shoes and water bottles, something repeatedly referenced today. But he keeps coming back. Regardless of the angle, there's something going on here, some importance perceived by, at least, Jones, that his message be heard in this place at this time. He's going to return again, he said, even after the mob. And likewise, his presence makes Dearborn a site for others--his detractors, his supporters with side causes of their own--to get attention for their messages. Before the rally began, Jones asked his supporters to join him for a pep talk. "If you're taking a stand with us we'd like you up to the fence real quick," he said. Jones told the small gathered crowd, maybe 30 people, about the size of the counter protest (and the media presence, who were pushed against the edge of the press pen trying to hear), "What's very important is that we will not in any way retaliate...in every sense they will see god's love and patience."
- [Proselytize, Evangelize](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/proselytize-evangelize/) - 06 February 2006 Attorneys defending the Air Force against charges of religious discrimination at the Colorado Springs Air Force Academy have asked the judge presiding over the lawsuit to dismiss the case on the grounds that plaintiff Michael Weinstein and his co-plaintiffs haven't demonstrated that they were sufficiently harmed by the alleged proselytization by evangelical Air Force
- [Allah's Name](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/call-me-by-my-name/) - Zeinab Yusuf Saiwalla: In Muslim majority Malaysia, the government recently refused to allow the distribution of tens of thousands of bibles that were printed in the country’s main language – Bahasa Malaysia. The controversy is not new; in 2009 the Malaysian Home Ministry prosecuted The Herald, Malaysia's sole Catholic publication, and threatened it with the loss of its printing license for the use of Allah in describing the Christian God in its Malay-language section. The Herald defended its usage of the term Allah, arguing that it was backed by a centuries-old tradition within the Arabic language where non-Muslims in Arab countries used Allah to mean God.
- [Tying Knots](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/tying-knots/) - Becky Garrison: In the battle for marriage equality, a federal appeals court and the Washington State legislature delivered both a love letter for same-sex couples and a Valentine's Day massacre on society, depending on one's interpretation of civil liberties and the institution of marriage. On February 7, 2012, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals declared California's Proposition 8, a ban on same-sex marriage, to be unconstitutional. By a 2-1 decision, the three-judge panel affirmed the lower court judge's 2010 ruling that Prop. 8 was indeed a violation of the civil rights of gays and lesbians. (This timeline charts the legal briefs and hearings that transpired since 2008 when Prop 8 went into effect.)
- [Are the Gods Afraid of Black Sexuality?](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/are-the-gods-afraid-of-black-sexuality-religion-and-the-burdens-of-black-sexual-politics/) - And interview with Professor Josef Sorett about the launch of Columbia University's Center on African American Religion, Sexual Politics and Social Justice.
- [John Piper v. Rob Bell:Battle for the Soul of Evangelical Christianity?](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/john-piper-v-rob-bellbattle-for-the-soul-of-evangelical-christianity/) - by Becky Garrison Rob Bell, a bestselling Christian author and founder of Mars Hill Church in Grand Rapids became a top trend on Twitter last week after Justin Taylor posted a blog article titled "Rob Bell: Universalist?" Taylor, vice president at Crossways International, a Christian educational non-profit, based his commentary on select chapters of Bell's forthcoming book Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived that were sent to him and on a promotional video produced to accompany this book’s release on March 29th. Those who picked up on Taylors’ post included bestselling author and Reformed pastor John Piper, who tweeted a succinct “Farewell, Rob Bell.” The bulk of those generating the ensuing online buzz appear to have reached their conclusions regarding Bell’s book not based on the book itself, which few have actually had the chance to read, but on a position they’ve already taken in the ongoing battles between reformed and progressive (aka emergent) evangelicals. Bell's detractors claim that he's abandoned “biblical Christianity” and the belief that only Christians can enter heaven. Instead, he’s charged with adopting universalism, a concept which states that everyone will eventually be saved. In other words, critics claim, what's at stake is nothing short of Bell's soul and those of his followers and readers.
- [Senseless Gestures](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/4742/) - "My friend (if I may still call him that) believed in humanity, and so he also believed in order, in the order of painting and the order of words, since words are what we paint with. He believed in redemption. Deep down he may even have believed in progress. Coincidence, on the other hand, is total freedom, our natural destiny. Coincidence obeys no laws and if it does we don't know what they are. Coincidence, if you'll permit me the simile, is like the manifestation of God at every moment on our planet. A senseless God making senseless gestures at his senseless creatures. In that hurricane, in that osseous implosion, we find communion. The communion of coincidence and effect and the communion of effect with us." - from 2666, by Roberto Bolaño
- [Daily Links: Today's Soap Box](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/daily-links-todays-soap-box/) - What promised land? What medical ethics? What radical Muslims? What orphans? A quick guide to righteous media this week.
- [Christian Cinema as National Cinema](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/christian-cinema-as-national-cinema/) - An excerpt from Anne Morey's article in the Spring 2011 issue of Letters, the newsletter of the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities: Perhaps above all, the narrative of the installation of enforcement mechanism by 1934 for the Production Code (the film industry's self-censorship organization) can be read as one in which religion was the solution to an institutional crisis in the film industry. The Production Code represented the failure of liberal Protestant attitudes toward the film industry and the triumph of Catholic approaches to textual regulation.... Religion's utility to Hollywood continued into the 1960s, with the biblical spectacular forming a reliable product at a moment when audiences had declined by half, as they did between 1948 and 1958, making the economic penalties for misjudging public sentiment considerable. Religious filmmaking even combines with technical innovation; for example, CinemaScope, the widescreen format that was designed to lure adult audiences back into theaters in 1953 debuted in the religious blockbuster The Robe.
- [Sanctifying Wall Street](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/sanctifying-wall-street/) - Amy Levin: Time for an update on #religion at #occupywallstreet? This week, Sarah Posner mediated a roundtable discussion with Religion Dispatches regular contributors highlighting particular religious moments of the occupy movement. Anthea Butler tells Posner says that Occupy Atlanta's refusal to let civil rights protestor and Congressman John Lewis speak was a reflection of OWS “becoming slaves to the 'process'" rather than accepting inspiration. The civil rights movement, like OWS, didn’t have a "complete consensus" either, and it was inspiration, not process, that sustained endurance. Posner then questions Nathan Schneider about the role of self-identified religious groups in the movement like the Protest Chaplains and Occupy Judaism. Posner asks whether or not these groups are necessary for the success of OWS, or if religious activists are engaged in the movement in order to “reimagine the role of their respective religious traditions in contemporary political activism.” Schneider responds that the “ordinary trappings” of religion, like rituals and ceremonies, are needed in the movement; religious groups will only be able to get so far toward their own goals inside the “self-consciously non-hierarchical, revolutionary, and disruptive” environment of OWS.
- [Happy Birthday Zionism](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/happy-birthday-zionism/) - Amy Levin: Given that today and tomorrow mark two extremely important national holidays in Israel beginning with Yom Hazikaron, the day of remembrance for Israeli soldiers, followed by Yom HaAtzmaut, Israel’s independence day, it seems fitting to bring the timeless debate over Zionism to the virtual table. This week, Huffpost Religion is publishing daily columns as part of a series called “Liberal Zionists Speak Out.”
- [Daily Links: Schradle's List](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/daily-links-schradles-list/) - The stories you haven't yet read today but oh you must!
- [Searching Herman Cain's Soul.  In Iowa.](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/reading-herman-cains-soul-in-iowa/) - By Andy Kopsa Standing before a crowd of reporters at the Friar’s Club in New York, Sharon Bialek told her story. With her lawyer Gloria Allred at her side, Bialek painted a picture of an unwanted sexual encounter in a parked car in Washington DC: what she was wearing – pleated skirt, suit jacket; a pleasurable dinner and cocktails; and to her surprise, an upgrade to a suite at her hotel, courtesy of her host for the evening, Herman Cain. Bialek shockingly revealed that Cain “reached for my genitals” and then pulled her head toward his crotch. She resisted and asked, “What are you doing you know I have a boyfriend?” Cain’s reply was simply, ‘You want a job, right?’ For a man who has likened himself to Moses, claims God* told him to run for presidency and is a registered minister at Antioch Church in Atlanta, these charges should be troubling. Instead Cain’s personal response has been indignant, his campaign’s ham-handed and somewhat juvenile. Cain’s lawyer recently cautioned that women considering going public with claims of harassment by Cain should “think twice," a threat like that of a playground bully. What Bialek has described is sexual assault. While sexual harassment is serious, sexual assault is, criminally speaking, a whole other level. In Washington DC, where the alleged Bialek - Cain incident occurred, a misdemeanor sexual abuse charge carries a $1000 fine plus up to 180 days in jail. If a case reaches into 3rd or 4th degree assault territory fines can reach $100,000 and jail time soars to 10 years in prison.
- [In the News: Lots of bad and a bit of good](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/in-the-news-lots-of-bad-and-a-bit-of-good/) - A roundup of recent religion writing
- [Daily Links 14 June 2005](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/daily-links-14-june-2005/) - I'm Ok, The Pope's Ok Ann Rodgers, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette's smart religion reporter, wrote yesterday thatPope Benedict XVI is proving less conservative than expected. But the main evidence, as we read it, is that the new pope, famed for his reserve, is patting little children on the head. That's nice. Meanwhile, Rev. Thomas Reese, the former editor of
- [Evangelical Theology and Post-Modernism.](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/evangelical-theology-and-post-modernism/) - What could be more telling of the challenges faced by the modern Evangelical church than this podcast of four white, male Evangelical theologians discussing post-modernism? Turns out not much.
- [Uncomfortable Zionism](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/uncomfortable-zionism/) - Peter Beinart published an article in the New York Review of Books last week, "The Failure of the American Jewish Establishment," that, according to Religion Dispatches' Sarah Posner, "has the potential to create an intellectual earthquake." Beinart writes that American Jews have become increasingly divided between two distinct and un-nuanced positions: "naked hostility to Arabs and Palestinians"; and "a mass of secular American Jews who range from apathetic to appalled."
- [I'm Ok, The Pope's Ok](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/im-ok-the-popes-ok/) - Ann Rodgers, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette's smart religion reporter, wrote yesterday that Pope Benedict XVI is proving less conservative than expected. But the main evidence, as we read it, is that the new pope, famed for his reserve, is patting little children on the head. That's nice. Meanwhile, Rev. Thomas Reese, the former editor of the Jesuit magazine America hounded out of
- [Forget Happy Holidays](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/forget-happy-holidays/) - 01 December 2005 Sarah Price Brown: Everyone knows "happy holidays" means Merry Christmas and that the company "holiday party" is really a Christmas bash. So, why do we use these euphemisms? And why does the press go along with it, using phrases like "holiday season" and "happy holidays"? According to ABC News, Christian conservatives are
- [Daily Links 29 August 2005](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/daily-links-29-august-2005/) - Oh, My Godcast! The NYT offers up as evidence that consumer hi-tech is the most awesome force in, like, history the new trend of church sermons by podcast -- excuse me, "Godcast"! There are, of course, interesting questions to ask about how podcasting church sermons may effect the spiritual lives of individuals, pastors, and congregations; but the Times asks very
- [In the News: Wins and Losses](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/in-the-news-wins-and-losses/) - A round-up of recent religion news.
- [Daily Links](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/daily-links-5/) - The Southern Party: I'm betting Santorum takes Alabama and Mississippi tonight. In the meanwhile, read Alec MacGillis at The New Republic: If this year's GOP presidential candidates have all year been making such a conservative pitch in order to appeal to a party shaped by the South, why have they been having such a hard time connecting with voters in the most Southern states of all?
- [In the News: Memorials, Museums, Magic and More!](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/in-the-news-memorials-museums-magic-and-more/) - A round-up of recent religion news.
- [In The News: In Sickness and In Wellness](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/in-the-news-in-sickness-and-in-wellness/) - A round-up of recent religion news.
- [Killing Religion Journalism](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/killing-religion-journalism/) - By Jeff Sharlet Killing the Buddha: A Heretic’s Bible has just been published in paperback by Free Press / Simon & Schuster. When my co-author Peter Manseau and I set out to make Killing the Buddha, we wrote that “we had lost faith in the way faith gets talked about in America, the way it’s seen as either innocuous spirituality or dangerous fanaticism, perfume or mustard gas. After years of writing about religion, for newspapers and magazines and in letters to each other, we’d come to think that it is almost always both: Show us the truth and we’ll show you a lie, prove God is dead and we promise a resurrection.” Great -- but how do you tell that story?
- [Our Daily Links](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/our-daily-links-3/) - Who's the Enemy? The Catholic Church. Chicago Cardinal Francis George is unhappy that the gay pride parade will pass a local parish on the final Sunday in June--and that the Catholic leadership was not consulted about the new parade route. Today on Fox Chicago News the Cardinal compared gay "rhetoric" to that of the Klu Klux Klan. (h/t Anthea Butler) Plea Inbred. If you haven't yet read Matthew Shaer's latest for New York magazine, go do so now. He covers the Borough Park murder case of 8-year-old Leiby Kletzky by a member of the Hasidic community. The accused's lawyer is now claiming his client is inbred.
- [The Last Pro-Israel Election?](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-last-pro-israel-election/) - By Maurice Chammah The question of Zionism and whether or not you support it has for a while now lost its obvious connections to religious affiliation.
- [The Radical Notion that Women Experience War Too](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-radical-notion-that-women-experience-war-too/) - Amy Levin: “[In] the new form of war that’s evolved since the end of the cold war where it isn’t two armies standing and facing each other, women and children really are the most effected by this type of warfare,” said actor Geena Davis in a behind the scenes looks at a new PBS series called “Women, War, and Peace.” Davis is a narrator for the five-part hour long series that began Oct. 11, along with other big time celebrities such as Matt Damon, Tildan Swinton, and Alfre Woodard.
- [Patriot Acts: Narratives of Post-911 Injustice, Tuesday Sept. 13](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/patriot-acts-narratives-of-post-911-injustice-tuesday-sept-13/) - Catch The Revealer books editor Scott Korb moderating an event tomorrow night at Gallatin (Jerry H. Labowitz Theater for the Performing Arts, 1 Washington Place) at 7 pm. The panel will include Alia Malek, editor of Patriot Acts, Adama Bah, Noor Elashi (daughter of Ghassan Elashi, who's been placed in a "Communications Management Unit"), Ebadur Rahman, a student at NYU's Gallatin School, and NYU's Imam Khaled Latif. For more information, see the Gallatin event page and the Voices of Witness page.
- [In the Blood](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-patient-body-in-the-blood/) - “The Patient Body” is a monthly column by Ann Neumann about issues at the intersection of religion and medicine.
- [How Ethics Saved the Life of Medicine](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-patient-body-how-ethics-saved-the-life-of-medicine/) - “The Patient Body” is a monthly column by Ann Neumann about issues at the intersection of religion and medicine.
- [Back at the Camp](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/back-at-the-camp/) - 20 December 2005 Meanwhile, Pat Robertson is still stuck on last year's contradictory argument: deriding the beliefs of scientists as "religious" -- or "cultishly religious," in Robertson's words -- and therefore not things to be taken seriously, while simultaneously demanding respect for the views of the conventionally devout.
- [Economic "Stuckness"](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/economic-stuckness/) - Dan Schultz, at Religion Dispatches, on why we've got a "stuck" economy: Now, the religious message is that it is God who provides the newness to move things along. Specifically, according to Brueggemann, God provides a risky and "just enough" economic alternative to the madness of the market idolatry. But take out the God piece, and you still have a useful insight: our current stuckness isn't a matter of political malpractice or corruption. It's a failure of the imagination on a grand scale, an inability to conceive that newness is needed, much less that it must be embraced. Some days, I think we'd all be better off if we called it what it is, a "failure of the moral imagination," as Hannah Arendt once said, real and meaningful evil. You don't have to believe in God to get that.
- [Rising and Falling](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/rising-and-falling/) - Can it be true? He is risen and she is fallen -- which is to say, Mel's commercial ressurrection is now a done deal, and the old ways have died... Alright, that's a little confusing. Next thing you know The Revealer will be going on about mustard seeds and seven seals and Moshiach's grave in the great borough of
- [Review: It Runs in the Family](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/review-it-runs-in-the-family/) - A review of Frida Berrigan's It Runs in the Family by Alice Bach
- [Occupy Writers](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/occupy-writers/) - The Revealer founder Jeff Sharlet hustled up a list of writers who support the Occupy movement on Wall Street and around the world. Read it here: www.occupywriters.com
- [In the News: Pamela Gellar, Prophesy, PEN, and more!](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/in-the-news-pamela-gellar-prophesy-pen-and-more/) - A round-up of the week's religion news.
- [Preachers from the Palace of Wisdom, or: Ranterism in the UK](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/preachers-from-the-palace-of-wisdom-or-ranterism-in-the-uk/) - Ed Simon reviews Nigel Smith’s Ranter Writings: Spiritual Liberty and Sexual Freedom in the English Revolution.
- [Our Daily Links: While You Were Eating Fruitcake Edition](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/our-daily-links-while-you-were-eating-fruitcake-edition/) - Worth the Wait: It may have taken 1,500 years but the Talmud finally has an index. Early Adopters: I've long said that religion and porn are the two first groups to adopt new technologies. In "Christianity and the Future of the Book" at The New Atlantis Alan Jacobs writes, "Religious communities have been the inventors, the popularizers, or the preservers of technologies." (Jacobs doesn't say anything about porn, alas.) The Vatican has released its annual report on deaths of mission workers around the world. South America and Africa are highest on the list of dangerous continents. Red Kettle Menace: The Salvation Army does great work but tis the season to hear more about their prayer-for-assistance policies, in this instance, regarding same-sex couples. (TR friend and co-conspirator Diane Winston has written about the Salvation Army in Red Hot and Righteous: the Urban Religion of the Salvation Army. Hear her talk about it here, in a 2009 interview with NPR.)
- [All the Market's a Stage](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/all-the-markets-a-stage/) - By George González Placards at this weekend's forced evacuation of “Occupy Boston,” as elsewhere in the country, defiantly read, “You Can't Evict an Idea.” This kind of contention is key to understanding the sophisticated politics of the “Occupy Movement.” The seeming contradiction between this notion and the original focus on the physical occupation of space exemplifies the genius of the movement. In my previous post, “The Market, Warren Buffet and the Occupation of Wall Street,” I discussed how arguments which overstate the rationalist dimensions of economic life, whatever their political persuasion, are dangerous because they contribute to misunderstandings of how economic power actually works in our daily lives. If we misdiagnose the stakes or misread the landscape, our social critique is impaired. I made the point that, in practice, Warren Buffett’s financial empire understands quite well the “emotional content of economics,” as one of my mentors, Bethany Moreton, nicely puts it. Yet, his solutions for improving our economic lot are strangely rationalist given the multifaceted ways in which his company does business. What I mean by this is that his solution is formal, proceduralist and bureaucratic. It makes a policy appeal regarding tax law and commends legislative approaches. Legislative and legal activism that benefits from ten-point plans and specific policy goals are, no doubt, very important pragmatic dimensions of the work that needs to be done. Such work, however, does not begin to exhaust what is meant by the mantra Occupy Everything! nor begin to exhaust the sakes as many “occupiers” understand them.
- [Arrested Development](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/arrested-development/) - Ashley Baxstrom: It’s hard out there for a protestor. Occupying Oakland? Get arrested. Occupying Wall Street? Also get arrested (but don’t worry: there’s an app for that). Cornel West? Arrested (hey, twice in one week!). An almost-excommunicated Roman Catholic priest advocating women’s ordination outside the Vatican? You guessed it - arrested. The Rev. Roy Bourgeois
- [Islam's Mighty Wind](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/islams-mighty-wind/) - From Peter Brown's review of the Met's "Byzantium and Islam: Age of Transition (7th-9th Century)," at The New York Review of Books: The exhibition takes us to the heart of this great detonation. It embraces the last century of the pre-Islamic Middle East and the first two centuries of Islam. To our surprise, we do not find ourselves in a world swept by a mighty wind. Instead, we enter a series of quiet rooms where time seems to stand still. Like a perfect late fall day, only the occasional rustle of a falling leaf startles us into realizing that the seasons are about to change. The few clear signs that Islam had, indeed, become politically dominant in the Middle East by the end of the seventh century strike us with almost ominous intensity. For there are so few of them.
- [Imagination Standing in for Belief](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/imagination-standing-in-for-belief/) - by Elissa Lerner If you walk into the Gottesman Exhibition Hall at the New York Public Library right now, you can’t help but notice a wave of warm, damp air. In an exhibition that could easily have been expanded to fill the more heavily trafficked halls of museums like the Met, the New York Public Library has dug through its archives and pulled out an awe-inspiring collection of the most awe-inspired books in the world: rare copies of the holy texts of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. But a larger space for Three Faiths (free, now through February 27th) would have ruined the atmosphere; book reading, or book gazing in this context, is a cozy and leisurely activity, far from the crowds of Museum Mile. Highlights from the exhibit (and there are many) include a Quran from Istanbul dating to 1103 with clearly identifiable human figures and faces, which became increasingly rare in Quranic art. Another gem is a Samaritan Bible from 1232 written in Paleo-Hebrew script, which some trace to descendants of the northern kingdom of Israel. (Judah, the southern kingdom, adopted Aramaic script, creating a visual and literary break with the other tribes.) Yet perhaps the most remarkable text is not text at all, but the art accompanying a small copy of the Gospels from Ge’ez, Ethiopia, dating to the 15th century. The book is open to a portrait of a Madonna and Child that initially resembles a Byzantine style, until you can’t help but notice the bright orange, yellow and green fabrics (European holy colors are red and blue), and the brown skin of the holy family.
- [Contesting the Sharia: The Ideological Interpretation (and Misinterpretation) of Islamic Law](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/contesting-the-sharia-the-ideological-interpretation-and-misinterpretation-of-islamic-law/) - by Najam Haider The proposed construction of a mosque in the vicinity of Ground Zero in New York City has raised an outcry from a number of critics including (but not limited to) former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin and former Speaker of the House (and potential 2012 presidential candidate) Newt Gingrich. In a July 28, 2010 article published by Gingrich in the conservative magazine Human Events, he writes: Radical Islamism is more than simply a religious belief. It is a comprehensive political, economic, and religious movement that seeks to impose Sharia - Islamic law - upon all aspects of global society. He goes on to explain that Sharia “does not permit freedom of conscience” or “religious liberty” and is “explicitly at odds with core American and Western values.” He then chronicles a phenomena that he dubs “creeping Sharia” whereby government institutions refuse to implement the protections of American law in deference to this apparently draconian religious legal code.
- [The Prince of This World: Adam Kotsko and Patrick Blanchfield in Conversation](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-prince-of-this-world-adam-kotsko-and-patrick-blanchfield-in-conversation/) - Adam Kotsko discusses his book The Prince of This World with The Revealer's Patrick Blanchfield
- [So There’s Just Been a Mass Shooting](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/so-theres-just-been-a-mass-shooting/) - Patrick Blanchfield on what you should know and expect about mass shootings.
- [In the News: From Santa Muerte to Saint Leonard Cohen](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/in-the-news-from-santa-muerte-to-saint-leonard-cohen/) - A round-up of recent religion news.
- [Daily Links 26 January 2005](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/daily-links-26-january-2005/) - They Will Be Your Doctors When You're Old Kansas' State Board of Education is holding a public hearing this Saturday on the proposed statewide science standards which include a redefinition of the word "science" intended to remove bias towards "naturalistic" (non-theistic) belief systems. Pat Hayes, author of Red State Rabble, writes that the rephrasing -- proposed by a group
- [In the News: Calligraphy, Coens, a Caffeinated Casket and much more!](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/in-the-news-calligraphy-coens-a-caffeinated-casket-and-much-more/) - A round-up of recent religion news.
- [Give Us This Day Our Daily Links](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/give-us-our-day-our-daily-links/) - Catch Diane Winston on Krista Tippett's "On Being." She's talking about TV, storytelling, and faith. In his new book, The Meaning of Marriage, Timothy Keller, by omission, matches up practiced marriage to the rare (Christian) ideal--and forgets that the institution was meant to serve a number of social purposes, not all of them holy. In an interview with Christianity Today he says, "the church doesn't do a great job of giving people a vision for what God wants marriage to be." Thank God! The House has voted to protect the national motto, "In God We Trust."
- [In The News: Breaking Bad, Thanksgivukkah, The Vatican, George Bernard Shaw & much more](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/in-the-news-breaking-bad-thanksgivikkuh-the-vatican-george-bernard-shaw-so-much-more/) - A round-up of recent religion & media news.
- [Of Artists, Expatriates, Faith and India](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/of-artists-expatriots-faith-and-india/) - An excerpt from Vikram Kapur's article "When Society Failed the Artist" today at The Hindu, on the recent death of exiled Indian artist M.F. Husain in London: What is interesting in the case of Husain is that the furore over his nude depiction of Hindu deities did not erupt when the paintings were created in the 1970s. It happened in the 1990s during the golden age of Hindutva. It was in the heady days of the headline-gathering rath yatras and the demolition of the Babri Mosque that elements of the Hindu right woke up to the fact that a Muslim painter had depicted Hindu deities in the nude. They may also have taken their cue from the Muslim right's success in getting the government to ban Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses. In the years that followed they successfully utilised intimidation and the courts to hound Husain from the country and, ultimately, to Qatari citizenship.
- [What Secular Space?: The Met Hedges Muslim](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/what-secular-space-the-met-hedges-muslim/) - Ashley Baxstrom: If you’re in New York (and if you’re not, come), head over to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and check out their New Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia. November 1 marked the grand reopening of 15 enlarged, reconceived and renovated galleries of what the Museum touts as one of the world’s best and most comprehensive collections of Islamic art. Museum Director Thomas P. Campbell says the exhibit “trace[s] the course of Islamic civilization over a span of 13 centuries, from the Middle East to North Africa, Europe, and Central and South Asia. This new geographic orientation signals a revised perspective on this important collection, recognizing that the monumentality of Islam did not create a single, monolithic artistic expression, but instead connected a vast geographic expanse through centuries of change and cultural influence.”
- [The Medievals Loved Creation](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-medievals-loved-creation/) - Chris Armstrong on Emile Male and the medieval "love affair" with Creation: On the theme of what I think can fairly be called medievals’ “Creation spirituality,” Male portrays medieval artists and art as saturated in that sense of the sacramentality of all created things that Gregory the Great bequeathed to the Middle Ages—the understanding that God is continually communicating to us in everything he makes. Male takes this to be an extension of the principle of allegorical interpretation: that under the literal sense of scripture hide deeper spiritual meanings.
- [Afghanistan: A Hit Close to Home](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/afghanistan-a-hit-close-to-home/) - A more personal note: My sister writes this morning to tell me that her friend, Glen Lapp, a resident of our home county, Lancaster, and an aid worker for the Mennonite Central Committee, was killed in the Taliban ambush in Afghanistan last week. Glen had been in Afghanistan for nearly two years and was slated to return home in October. He was one of ten killed in the ambush. Amidst the current climate of protest against a mosque at Ground Zero and "creeping Islamophobia," it's easy to be critical of evangelizing efforts to convert the heathen "Moslem" in the countries where we're, as a nation, committed to war. And yet, writes my sister, there's a way to understand and do God's work that doesn't involve a crusading effort for conversion: "He was so against trying to convert others to Christianity... and abhorred other Christians who did. He was fully only there to help provide medical aid to those who needed it." Glenn's story complicates the conflicting yet monolithic ideologies often applied to our responsibilities in Afghanistan (and the Middle East in general) by, in turn, neoconservatives like Newt Gingrich and progressive anti-war activists. For more on Glen Lapp's death, read here, here, here and here.
- [Books Among Righteous Men](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/books-among-righteous-men/) - By Matthew Shaer Last June, a federal judge in Washington ordered the Russian government to return to the Lubavitch-Chabad Hasidic movement a sizable library of religious texts and documents which had been seized by Bolshevik authorities in the 1920s. The library was later obtained by the Nazis, before finally ending up—in 1945—in the hands of the Red Army. By that point, Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, had fled to the United States, where he set about rebuilding his court on American soil. The books have remained contested property ever since. In his ruling, the federal judge, Royce C. Lamberth, called the seizure by the Red Army discriminatory and pointed out that the Lubavitch leadership had received no compensation from Russia. The Russian government, for its part, has refused to participate in the legal proceedings, arguing that the library is “part of the Russian State Library's collection, which… is indivisible.” In a tersely worded statement this month, Russian Culture Minister Alexander Avdeyev called the claims of the plaintiff—Agudas Chasidei Chabad, the Crown Heights–based organization that oversees the entire Lubavitch movement—“provocative,” and hinted that further action could have real diplomatic consequences. The request by the plaintiff “aims to spoil the bilateral relations between our countries and to undermine the political reset,” Avdeyev said, according to Interfax. Interestingly, this is not the first major court action involving a Lubavitch-Chabad library. In the mid-1980s, the Lubavitch community in Brooklyn was consumed by a different fight over a very different collection of texts—and unlike the case adjudicated last year by Judge Lamberth, this one pitted one descendent of Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn against another.
- [Angelina’s Shiny New Rack](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/angelinas-shiny-new-rack/) - Jolie’s preemptive strike against what might be called in manful terms a “clear and present danger” violates norms against women controlling their own bodies.
- [The Field of Martyrs](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-field-of-martyrs/) - Mary Valle: Wow! Rachel Donadio reports in the New York Times that Pope Benedict has proclaimed that "sins inside the church" are the greatest problem in his organization; and that "forgiveness does not substitute justice." These are Benedict's strongest words on Pontifigate: encouraging! However, he was somewhat vague on the cleanup (which is a sort of human oil spill: ongoing, resisting easy solutions, far, far worse than you expected) offering that the church has "to relearn 'conversion, prayer, penance.'" One wonders if they'll take Vatican exorcist Fr. Gabriele Amorth up on his offer to exterminate the devil in St. Peter's. It couldn't possibly hurt at this point: why not give a Vatican exorcism a try?
- [Ethics of the Graveyard: Terry Eagleton on Death](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/ethics-of-the-graveyard-terry-eagleton-on-death/) - A review of Radical Sacrifice by Terry Eagleton
- [Ugandan Genocide, On Schedule](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/ugandan-genocide-on-schedule/) - The Ugandan Anti-Homosexuality Bill, also known as the "kill the gays" bill, never went away. We were just supposed to think it did. A debate of the bill is set to begin before Uganda's parliament in the next few months, writes Warren Throckmorton, who last week interviewed the author of the bill, David Bahati.
- [Daily Links: Unscrupulous Scribes](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/daily-links-unscrupulous-scribes/) - Orientalism, feminism, sexism, hedonism and beauty.
- [Hemophilology](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/hemophilology/) - The hemophilologist is a kind of secular witness, offering an account of truth, pain, sensitivity, and care, all at once.
- [After the Referendum:Sudan Negotiates National and Religious Identity in the North](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/after-the-referendumsudan-negotiates-national-and-religious-identity-in-the-north/) - By Alex Thurston The secession of South Sudan in July 2011 posed an existential question for (North) Sudan: what will be the political and cultural basis of the nation, which is in some ways a new country itself? In December 2010, shortly before the referendum on Southern secession, President Omar al Bashir gave his answer: “We’ll change the Constitution,” he said in a televised speech. “Shariah and Islam will be the main source for the Constitution, Islam the official religion and Arabic the official language.” Bashir reiterated this promise in October, adding, “Ninety eight percent of the people are Muslims and the new constitution will reflect this.” Bashir’s call for a consolidation of the state’s Arab-Islamic identity is calculated to appeal to the base of Islamists who brought him to power in 1989, many of whom continue to support the ruling National Congress Party (NCP). But it sits poorly with a number of groups in the new Sudan, including many Muslims. Efforts to use Islam as the basis of political power have a long history in Sudan, but past attempts to impose Bashir’s brand of political Islam have also hit major resistance. The many forces opposed to his regime have their own ideas about the country’s future.
- [In the News: TLC, THC, OMG](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/in-the-news-tlc-thc-omg/) - A round-up of the week's religion news.
- [Jeebus H. Christ On A Popsicle Stick!](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/jeebus-h-christ-on-a-popsicle-stick/) - 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 & Cable reports that "words and phrases as 'goddammit,' 'Jesus Christ,' 'asshole,' and 'butt-plug,' [must be] toned down to 'dammit,' 'ass,' and 'butt.'" (And Allah may henceforth be referred to only as "Al.") How come Cartman's savior doesn't get a "toned down"
- [The Gospel of Sacred Candy Hearts](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-gospel-of-sacred-candy-hearts/) - By Amy Levin Did Santa bring me a boyfriend this year? Smooches for all red, juicy collagen-chocolate filled lips. This v-day I’ll find my soul mate so my full heart becomes a half and we eat goodies like lollipops and lexapro. I think I found him on OkCupid; he buys me roses from Wal-Mart that I place in my hair and promise to never take it out and so I play Regina to sing me to sleep: The flowers you gave me are rotting and still I refuse to throw them away. Some of the bulbs never opened quite fully They might so I'm waiting and staying awake. Things I have loved I'm allowed to keep I'll never know if I go to sleep. He’s Jewish! He’s Jewish! Spread the Good News! His name is Karl Marxstein and we exchange and exchange and plan to celebrate Valentine’s day with a bottle of Manischewitz and my mother’s Groupon but instead I watch Carrie Bradshaw marry herself while Charlotte shows me how to be a Jewish housewife. I use Oprah’s prayer book but it’s really a cookbook for the best guilt-free valentines special and I really feel like a woman.
- [Tolerating James Dobson](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/tolerating-james-dobson-2/) - 31 January 2005 Bob Smietana, giving Dobson the benefit of the doubt, finds a moral in L'Affaire SpongeBob. Al Gore was at it again. He�d already claimed to have invented the Internet, and to have been the inspiration for the novel Love Story. Now, while speaking at to a group of high school students in Concord,
- [Laurel Snyder's Jewish Dreams of Trees](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/laurel-snyders-jewish-dreams-of-trees/) - Amy Levin: Jewish parents today have their pick of ethically themed children’s books with just-enough-but-not-too-much religion. But there’s something refreshingly unique about Laurel Snyder’s new book, Good Night, Laila Tov. Snyder’s tale follows two children on an outdoor family vacation, replete with camping on the beach, walking in fields full of berries, and the catching shelter deep woods. Illustrated with lush greens and warm hues, Good Night, Laila Tov makes you want to take a nap on a rainbow after you’ve saved a coral reef from extinction. In other words, it’s the perfect blend of accessible environmentalism (the kids help their parents plant trees) and a rhythmic bedtime serenade.
- [South Park Mormons](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/south-park-mormons/) - From Jo Piazza's recent story at Fox News on the forthcoming broadway musical, "The Book of Mormon," by the creators of "South Park": “What we will see on Broadway will be something challenging and irreverent, but also riveting, entertaining and ultimately loving,” Brooks said. “Frankly, when Mormons are able to laugh at ourselves is when we will ultimately be a mature world religion.”
- [Cities and the Dead](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/cities-and-the-dead/) - Colin Dickey writes about cities and the dead for Lapham's Quarterly. From "Necropolis": Throughout early Christendom, bishops consolidated power around the tomb. The cemetery where St. Peter was buried was well outside of Rome’s city walls in a distant plot of land named Vatican Hill. But it was here, not in the city itself, that his followers built his basilica. The religious power base—in Tébessa, Nola, Rome, and elsewhere—had shifted to the periphery, creating an imbalance that could not last. One way or another, the saint would have to come inside the city.
- [The Revealer Family, Published](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-revealer-family-published/) - It's been a great week for readers, thanks to a suite of articles by members of The Revealer's family of writers. Covering issues from reality-based food to women's travel, from the health care crisis to Zionist activism to religious compounds in Missouri, we're proud to have such talented and diverse writers' names to drop! Former Revealer managing editor Kathryn Joyce has an important article, "Escape from Missouri," in the July/August issue of Mother Jones. Read more about it here. Buy it on newsstands today. Our books editor Scott Korb has a new piece in the special food issue of Lapham's Quarterly, "It's What's for Dinner." You can read the article here. Read Nathan Schneider's comments on the article here. Former managing editor Meera Subramanian has contributed to a new book, The Best Women's Travel Writing 2011. Get your copy here. Kiera Feldman--and we admit it's a stretch to claim her as one of our own, but we will--has an article at The Nation this week, "The Romance of Birthright Israel." Read it here; read Jeff Sharlet's comments on it here. Your editor truly has a piece at The Nation this week on the Catholic Church's renewed focus on aid in dying and the implications for health care in the US. Read it here.
- [Our Daily Links](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/our-daily-links-4/) - Countries of Particular Concern: In case you've forgotten that American democracy is the best chance for religious freedom around the world, here's an interview with Ambassador Suzan Johnson Cook, Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom and advisor to the Secretary of State and the President of the United States on issues of Religious Freedom, and Dr. Chris Seiple, president of the Institute of Global Engagement. E. Daniel Martin at Mennonite Weekly Review responds to Brian Larkin's recent post on sexuality by--I'm not kidding--comparing homosexuality to blindness (a new twist on the old masturbation wive's tale!), which suggests that whatever Mr. Martin doesn't personally approve of must be a pathology. But it's not just queer sex he's chastising us for.
- [The Fallen Catholic DeLillo](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-fallen-catholic-delillo/) - From the Los Angeles Review of Books, a review of Don DeLillo's The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories, by Cornel Bonca: The fallen Catholic DeLillo began to find a way to write about certain inescapable promptings of "awe" and "wonder" that were so insistent that they qualified as spiritual intimations. I'd argue that it's no accident that his greatest stretch of creation followed this shift, a two-decade-long marvel that helped push the American postmodern movement beyond its previous reliance on linguistic gamesmanship, black humor, and recursive irony, as books like White Noise, Libra, Mao II, Underworld, and The Body Artist assured DeLillo a place in the American canon.
- [Beck's Founding Fathers](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/becks-founding-fathers/) - Glenn Beck has famously postulated -- on a blackboard -- that if all Americans knew the history and content of the constitution the way he and his team of "expert" historian's do, the Tea Party would be running the country's show, not President Obama or any of his like-minded radical liberals. Last week, Beck held the first session of "Beck University" to do just that, re-teach Americans the real intent of separation of church and state, "not what you've been sold." His first guest was David Barton, founder of Wallbuilders and long-time advocate for the separation of church and state as a way to "keep the [church's] influence in there [government]."
- [Remember That You Will Die, Call for Entries](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/remember-that-you-will-die-call-for-entries/) - In conjunction with the Rubin Museum and Obit Magazine, our sister site Killing the Buddha is hosting an essay contest: Remember That You Will Die.
- [God is in the Kudzu](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/god-is-in-the-kudzu/) - Ashley Baxstrom: I love summer – you’ve got the ice cream, the green trees, drinking out-of-doors, and the pleasurable sensation of sun bouncing off cement. What little nature we have in New York seems bursting with life, and I can walk through a park and feel, briefly, like I've been transported to a leafy paradise. But the good people of Kinston, North Carolina have me beat. Residents of the small town have reported that a patch of kudzu growing on a telephone pole isn’t just a viny nuisance – it’s actually the likeness of Jesus Christ on the cross (with image)! Talk about God's green earth!
- [Daily Links October 7 2004](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/daily-links-october-7-2004/) - NYT Just Plain Wrong Turns out the NYT Jodi Wilgoren piece on Kerry and Catholics (blogged below) was not only so boring and beside the point that it numbed us into tongue-twisting alliteration; it was also factually wrong. Honor Killing What's God got to do with it? Not much, in Hadil Jawad's harrowing tale of "honor" crimes in Iraq, as told
- [Sexism Ed: Essays on Gender and Labor in Academia](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/sexism-ed-essays-on-gender-and-labor-in-academia/) - How sexism and patriarchy define our work and our lives, within and outside of academia
- [Safe Words](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/safe-words/) - Abby Ohlheiser: All the religious language of the last fortnight's Perry and Ames fest '11 (or should that be '12) made me click on this tweet (despite the parenthetical clue) without thinking for a second that it would be a comment on anything other than something Bachmann or Perry have talked about recently. By the way: don't google "perry bondage." It was, in fact, an article about the sort of bondage with a bigger but quieter internet presence: BDSM, which stands for bondage, discipline, sado-masochisim.
- [Bachmann's "Evangelical Feminism"](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/bachmanns-evangelical-feminism/) - Kathryn Montalbano: What is meant by "feminist"--the inherently problematic, unfixed term that often causes pangs of discomfort when mustered as a fighting word--varies not merely across historical and contemporary time and space but also within individual countries and regions. In the 1970s, for instance, the feminist movement in America was starkly divided in the public eye between the likes of sexy Helen Gurley Brown, author of Sex and the Single Girl and editor of Cosmopolitan magazine, and powerhouse Betty Friedan, author of The Feminine Mystique who is credited with launching "second-wave" feminism.
- [Daily Links](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/daily-links-6/) - Intelligent design, Günter Grass, Kathryn Joyce on Santorum's family, Kony, Andrew Sullivan's call to follow Jesus, me and feeding tubes, and prison chaplains.
- [Rapture Anticlimax](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/rapture-anticlimax/) - Just as Ari Stillman predicted here on Sunday, Harold Camping found the error in his prediction and has determined that the proper date for Judgement Day is October 21, 2011. The AP reports one of Camping's studio technicians has said, "I thought he would show some more human decency in admitting he made a mistake. We didn't really see that."
- [Service Announcement for Journos](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/service-announcement-for-journos/) - A friendly reminder to all of us at the start of this new election cycle: "Pro-life" means much, much more than just anti-abortion. It's an entire set of beliefs leveled at legislating bodily autonomy. For women, yes and most controversially, but also for the sick, the poor, the disabled, the terminal, gays, parents; in short, "pro-life" efforts impact health care access for all of us, regardless of our belief systems. So stories like this, at The Economist, are helpful but fall way short of the necessary discussion that should be taking place in the national media.
- [In the News: How to talk about what we need to talk about?](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/in-the-new-how-to-write-about-what-we-need-to-write-about/) - A round-up of recent religion news.
- [In the News: Conversations, Congratulations, and Collaborations](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/in-the-news-conversations-congratulations-and-collaborations/) - A round-up of recent religion news.
- [Our Daily Links, Back in the Saddle Edition!](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/our-daily-links-back-in-the-saddle-edition/) - Whew! It was a long, hot, wet, ground shakin' August here in New York. But we're back! See our fall reading schedule here! Tonight and this weekend at Dorothy Strelsin Theater, 312 West 36th Street at 8 pm, see two plays, Dictionary of the Khazars and Dirty Paki Lingerie, followed by a panel of journalists and academics in discussion. Panelists include Jeremy Walton, Jo Piazza, Orit Avishai, and Cantor Elizabeth Sacks. Here's information about the theater. Abu Dhabi Gallup asked around and found that "Religion does Not Color Views About Violence." A particular gem from the poll: nearly half of those in the US and Canada see military attacks on civilians as sometimes justified. Mel Gibson's penance for years of anti-Semitism? Producing a movie about the Jewish hero Judah Maccabee. (h/t Angela Zito) I can't wait to see what Frequencies, a "collaborative geneology of spirituality" curated by Kathryn Lofton and John Lardas Modern (and produced by The Immanent Frame and Killing the Buddha) are going to come up with for 9/11! The project offers a new piece of writing and artwork each day and has so far featured, among others, Peter Manseau on "This American Life," and Amy Hollywood on "Enthusiasm." Collect all 100 here. More evidence that the organized religious world is splitting across the LGBT rights divide.
- [In the News:  Wicca, Climate Change, Gaza and Much More](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/in-the-news-wicca-climate-change-gaza-and-more/) - A round-up of recent religion and media stories in the news.
- [Daily Links December 06 2004](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/daily-links-december-06-2004/) - "When the holy mother sizzle is the only sound you hear" Golden Palace, the casino that bought the "Virgin Mary Grilled Cheese Sandwich" for $28,000, is capitalizing on its purchase with a "Make Your Own Sandwich" option ("Your Face Here"), and a signature song (to the tune of "Do They Know It's Christmas?"), "It's Virgin
- [Killing Religion Journalism](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/killing-religion-journalism-2/) - Killing Religion Journalism 11 October 2004 By Jeff Sharlet Killing the Buddha: A Heretic’s Bible has just been published in paperback by Free Press / Simon & Schuster. When my co-author Peter Manseau and I set out to make Killing the Buddha, we wrote that “we had lost faith in the way faith gets talked about in
- [Nothing Can Stop Us Now](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/nothing-can-stop-us-now/) - Nothing Can Stop Us Now 07 November 2004 Marines. Iraq. Yesterday. Jeff Sharlet: Yesterday "Weekend America," a new public radio program produced by "Marketplace," aired a brief discussion between host Barbara Bogaev, Lee Edwards of the conservative Heritage Foundation, and myself. Our topic? "American greatness," a phrase used by Bush in his victory speech. The man from Heritage,
- [Inventing My Religion](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/inventing-my-religion/) - By Fred Folmer Shortly after finishing Invented Religions: Imagination, Fiction and Faith (Ashgate, 2010), a recent book by religious studies scholar Carole M. Cusack, I tried a quick experiment.
- [Iyad: An Epic of Modern Mali](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/iyad-an-epic-of-modern-mali-2/) - Childhood and Exile: Rebel Politics and the Politics of Hunger. This is the second in a series comparing the epic lives of Sundiata, medieval Malian ruler, and Iyad ag-Ghali, a power player and leader in Malian rebel movements for nearly forty years.
- [Sacred Space Oddity: The Un/Holy Land](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/sacred-space-oddity-the-unholy-land/) - Writer Dimi Reider and photographer Tanya Habjouqa explore the places where sacred and profane meet, overlap, and blur in Israel-Palestine.
- [Mandatory Separation: Musty Rooms and Medieval Masters](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/mandatory-separation-musty-rooms-and-medieval-masters/) - An excerpt from Suzanne Schneider's book Mandatory Separation Religion, Education, and Mass Politics in Palestine
- [In the News: Heavenly Bodies, Robot Funerals, and Kanye](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/heavenly-bodies-robot-funerals-and-kanye/) - A roundup of recent religion writing
- [The Crescent, The Cross, The Star, The Void](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-crescent-the-cross-the-star-the-void/) - A conversation with photographer Oscar B. Castillo about photographing subjects on France's margins.
- [Islamageddon](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/islamageddon/) - 22 December 2005 Bartholomew's Notes on Religion uncovers the next big thing in apoco-tainment: Robert Ferrigno's Prayers for the Assassin, a new doomsday fiction for the conservative end-days crowd, that posits a divided America of 2040, cut down the middle between the Islamic dictatorship of the north, and the rebel-yelling Christians of the south. But
- [As Goes Iowa: Asking Presidential Candidates the Right Religion Questions](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/as-goes-iowa-asking-presidential-candidates-the-right-religion-questions/) - by Andy Kopsa Every four years the national political eye shifts to Iowa’s first-in-the-nation caucuses. With the 2012 presidential election only 15 months away, the campaign frenzy in Iowa has already begun. Local and national media are eagerly following Republican presidential hopefuls as they glad-hand farmers, eat local delicacies and stump, flanked by American flags, through soybean fields. In February next year, Iowans will head to their local caucus to give a traditionally coveted victory to one Republican who could go on to face President Obama in the general election. That Republican – be it Michele Bachmann, Ron Paul or Newt Gingrich - will need to secure the blessing of the radical religious-political group The Family Leader. Bob Vander Plaats, the outspoken head of The Family Leader (TFL), is the man The Atlantic has called a Republican political “kingmaker” in Iowa – and the man who The Hill just ranked as having the ability to give one of the top 10 “endorsements the presidential candidates covet most.” The media has documented his – and the TFL’s - statements about homosexuality (worse than second hand smoke) and women’s role in society (producing lots of babies). Last week TFL made national news again with its Marriage Pledge – already signed by Bachmann and Rick Santorum, the former senator from Pennsylvania - touting the benefits of slavery to African American families (after vocal push-back, TFL has since removed this from the pledge). None of Vander Plaats' work would be half as interesting a story if The Family Leader, a Focus on the Family affiliate, hadn’t been built with over $3 million in federal funds.
- [Interpretation and Incoherence: Teaching "A Serious Man" and the Book of Job](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/interpretation-and-incoherence-teaching-a-serious-man-and-the-book-of-job/) - Todd Berzon on teaching the mysterious opening scene of the Coen Brothers film "A Serious Man" alongside the Book of Job.
- [Adam's Nipples](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/adams-nipples/) - In my capacity as editor of a publication on religion and media, two terms that consistently mean as many different things as we have readers -- and admittedly, we like it that way! -- I receive a lot of interesting email that begs for an answer to some profound question. But I'm not a theologian, nor an academic, nor a biologist (nor many other things too vast to list). Usually, I respond with profuse humility and apology, giving the inquirer as many alternate resources as I can scrounge up. But the question in my inbox this morning has me stumped.
- [Girls are for losers.](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/girls-are-for-losers/) - Ashley Baxstrom: What do women want? Rich, successful husbands, duh. Husbands who will comfortably support them and their bountiful brood. What do men want? Sons, apparently.
- [Daily Links 17 December 2004](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/daily-links-17-december-2004/) - Just Like a Greek Tragedy Not content with proving the existence of God, Google aims to recreate His mind. Mob Morality Stoner jokes about biblical precedents for wedding-party hook-ups; a Catholic comic speculating on her "get-out-of-hell-free card"; Will and Grace's shallow materialist Karen musing about transforming an historic church into a gay bar; a Scrubs character telling his fiancee it "sucks" that
- [A Threat to Catholic Unity](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/a-threat-to-catholic-unity/) - In the June 18th issue of the Catholic publication Commonweal, the magazine's editors address a recent "remarkably defensive" letter from the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), "Setting the Record Straight," in which the directors of three of the conference's initiatives, Pro-Life Activities, Immigration, and Justice, Peace and Human Development, chastise those who vocally dissented from the USCCB's stand against the health care bill. Those who broke from the USCCB included Women Religious and the Catholic Health Association, as well as a host of individual Catholic bishops and lay people and, ultimately, Representative Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) and Senator Robert Casey Jr. (D-PA); those who disagreed with the USCCB interpreted the new bill as not expanding government funding for abortion.
- [In The News: Talal Asad, Taylor Swift, Turbans, and more!](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/in-the-news-talal-asad-taylor-swift-turbans-and-more/) - A round-up of recent religion and media stories in the news.
- [Take That, Kansas!](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/take-that-kansas/) - Pastafarianism.
- [Be The Next Jesus. Or L. Ron Hubbard.](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/you-can-be-the-next-jesus/) - Amy Levin: Huffington Post Comedy recently ended a short and perhaps not-so-sweet competition called “Create Your Own Religion.” Though curiously lasting only three days, the call ushered in 906 submissions, including 113 (and counting) featured in a slideshow. The contest was open to anyone with enough free time to send in a catchy name, photo, and set of beliefs, rituals, and holidays - clearly, all a religion needs to survive. The Church of the Eternal Mimosa
- [Reading HuffPo’s “Hospice, Inc.”](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-patient-body-reading-huffpos-hospice-inc/) - “The Patient Body” is a monthly column by Ann Neumann about issues at the intersection of religion and medicine.
- [HuffPo Scripture](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/huffpo-scripture/) - Paul Rauschenbush, religion editor at Huffington Post, announced a new series that will highlight scriptural commentary: One of the most effective forms of prayer and meditation comes through reflection upon scripture -- and while reading scripture on our own is edifying, it is even better to approach scripture together with a group to learn from the ways in which others understand the same passage. Likewise, it is enlightening to listen to or read the reflections of religious leaders who have thought about the deep meaning of a passage of scripture. To that end, Huffington Post Religion is starting a scripture commentary series that will bring together leading voices from different religious traditions to offer their wisdom on selected religious passages. Next month we will have Muslim commentaries for Ramadan, and in September Jewish commentaries for the High Holidays. This week we are starting with commentaries on the Gospel by Rev. Jim Wallis, Dr. Serene Jones, Dr. Emilie Townes, Sister Joan Chittister, and Rev. James Martin, S.J.
- [Tough on Terrorism](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/tough-on-terrorism/) - Howard Fineman gets off on the new military brute, brain and brawn of Democrats: "By calmly and meticulously overseeing the successful targeting of Osama bin Laden, President Barack Obama just proved himself -- vividly, in almost Biblical terms -- to be an effective commander-in-chief of the armed forces of the United States."
- [U.S. Religion by Number](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/u-s-religion-by-number/) - Ashley Baxstrom: Where would we be without the Huffington Post? NOT in the know about the most and least religious states in America, that’s where. [Full reveal: HuffPo got it from Gallup. But who reads Gallup? Thanks, HuffPo!] Here’s the breakdown: Mississippi is the most religious, New Hampshire and Vermont tie for least. Eight of the 10 most-religious are in the South, none are in the mid-Atlantic/New England or West Coast regions; but six of the least-religious are in New England, four in the West. And before you ask --yes, there is an accompanying slideshow of scenic imagery from each state.
- [Atheism vs Religion: The Final Countdown?](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/atheism-vs-religion-the-final-countdown/) - What’s missing here, and in so many similar arguments, is that religion works.
- [Who Killed Pat Tillman?](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/who-killed-pat-tillman/) - As far as we can tell, New York Press columnist Matt Taibbi doesn't give a damn about religion. But that doesn't stop him from writing some of the most incisive -- or, at least, the sharpest -- religion media crit out there right now. Even when he's not writing about religion. Last week it was Negroponte & the Nuns. This
- [Civic Religion](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/civic-religion/) - The markers that sustain religion -- holidays -- can make writing about it boring beyond belief, a truism of religion reporting that's even moreso the case when it comes to civic religion and our state-designated holy days. Today is one of them, but one of the things that's making this one enjoyable for The Revealer is this
- [Approaching Religious Violence: Part I](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/approaching-religious-violence-on-true-religion-and-the-limits-of-religious-freedom/) - Part one of a three-part series on religious violence by Suzanne Schneider. This month: “True Religion” and the Limits of Religious Freedom
- [Mass Wedding in Kano](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/mass-wedding-in-kano/) - by Alex Thurston A recent story from Nigeria, one that touches on both marriage and shari’a, offers the possibility of a more sophisticated analysis of marriage in Africa as well as shari'a law.
- [In the News: Migration, Occupation, Representation & more!](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/in-the-news-migration-occupation-representation-and-more/) - A round-up of recent religion news.
- [Love in the Time of Scholarship](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/love-in-the-time-of-scholarship/) - Anand Venkatkrishnans's Field Note on the hidden heart of scholarship.
- [“A Different Kind of Life”: The Tragedy of Charlie Gard](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-patient-body-a-different-kind-of-life-the-tragedy-of-charlie-gard/) - “The Patient Body” is a monthly column by Ann Neumann about issues at the intersection of religion and medicine. This month: The tragic life and death of Charlie Gard
- [Scripture from Narnia](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/scripture-from-narnia/) - Elissa Lerner writes at The New Yorker Book Bench blog: When was the last time you read the Bible? According to the Pew Forum, about thirty-seven per cent of Americans say they read the Bible at least once a week. According to the introduction of the "C.S. Lewis Bible," an edition of the New Revised Standard Version published by HarperCollins, this book is for them, and for all other regular readers of the scriptures. To dispel any confusion, yes, this is the Bible, complete with crinkly, ready-to-tear paper; and no, it does not contain any previously undiscovered works of C.S. Lewis. The edition is generously sprinkled with the writer's quips, essays, and correspondence offering spiritual insight. But for the heathens, pagans, and general non-Bible-studying set, there is still plenty to glean. Continue reading here.
- [The Blood and the Rain: Peticion de Lluvias](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-blood-and-the-rain-peticion-de-lluvias/) - Yael Martinez and Orlando Velazquez's collaborative exploration of traditional rituals in Guerrero, Mexico.
- [In the News: Clip-clippety-clip](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/in-the-news-clip-clippety-clip/) - A round-up of recent religion news.
- [Multiculturalism gave us Jihad](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/5213/) - In his review of Kenan Malik's From Fatwa to Jihad: The Rushdie Affair and Its Aftermath, Dan Margolis argues that tolerance for other faiths and cultures -- multiculturalism -- has prevented liberals from successfully working for or even believing in absolute human rights. Posted at Guernica: Of course, most Muslims are not terrorists, so the question arises: Who becomes a terrorist and why? We know that most of these people have been well off, at least middle class, and well educated. According to Malik, the separation foisted by multiculturalism provided fertile ground for identity politics, mixed with a culture of grievance, to grow into jihadist terror. Young people in the “Muslim community,” instead of fighting racism—how could one fight against inequality when the whole idea of a cohesive society was out the window?—found themselves fighting against their parents’ version of Islam; in short, the rebelled by becoming more pious, more “Islamic” than anyone else.
- [Remembering China's Great Leap and Great Famine](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/remembering-chinas-great-leap-and-great-famine/) - Getting the Past Out Loud: Memory Projects with Wu Wenguang Saturday, December 3, 4, 2011 A five-film weekend with documentary director and artist Wu Wenguang where he will present films from The Memory Project, based at Coachangdi Workstation in Beijing. From there, young filmmakers fanned out to return to family villages and their own pasts, real and imagined, to inquire about The Great Famine of 1959-61 — a disaster of which memories have been actively abandoned by the state. But the films reveal as much about the wish for memory as of memory itself and of the interesting role of film in such projects of retrieval. Two of Wu’s works will be featured.
- [India's Holy Shahs](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/indias-holy-shahs/) - We've been a giant fan of BibliOdyssey, a site of printed treasures curated by Peacay (or Paul) in Sydney, Australia, since discovering it last year. This week's curation is from "The Album of Mughal Indian Portraits, House of Timur" and shows 18th-century images of Indian Shahs, golden holy crowns about their heads. You can view more of BibliOdyssey's images here or follow him on twitter @bibliodyssey.
- [Eden on the Block](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/eden-on-the-block/) - In the beginning, there was a “time of innocence.” Pam Shaw, one of a few thousand Eves, called it “paradise,” and speaks of the “blind faith” with which she believed in the Prime Mover of her bliss. Yes, of course -- Disney Corp. In today’s New York Times, Abby Goodnough reports on Disney’s plan to sell Celebration, its now
- [Passionate Letters](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/passionate-letters/) - The Revealer likes to harp on a theme, a rather vague notion of democratic religion writing -- the sort practiced by journalists more intrigued by the many manifestations of faith and faithlessness than by Religion's official proclamations and courtroom exhortations (Stay out of the schools! Get into the schools!). But we're reminded from time to time
- [Prayer Maps](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/prayer-maps/) - Pizza parlors, shipping offices, printing shops, jewelry shops -- temples, all, as revealed by photographer Jaime Permuth's "Manhattan Mincha Map," a virtual exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York. The Mincha is the shortest of the three daily prayers said by orthodox Jewish men, consisting mainly of 19 blessings recited while standing, "symbolic," Permuth points
- [Nailing the Passion](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/nailing-the-passion/) - "Rodolfo Esqueda removes pewter nails from the mold used to make one of the pieces of jewelry in the 'The Passion of the Christ' line of jewelry at the Bob Siemon Designs plant in Santa Ana, Calif., Tuesday." (AP Photo/Chris Carlson) The humble nail -- once a bit player in the crucifixion --
- [Mel Gibson's Baby](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/mel-gibsons-baby/) - 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 so, Mel. A moment of repentence? Not from this Christian braveheart. Rather, Gibson is responding to Christianity Today's request that he explain the much talked about "evil baby" coddled by an androgynous Satan in The Passion. So what is evil
- [Marketing God, Part II](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/marketing-god-part-ii/) - 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, who last wrote about media-saavy churches in "The Medium is the Messiah," is the deputy editor of The Washington Post Book World and author of Revolt of the Masscult. Here, he distinguishes himself from other Passion reviewers by his astute sensitivity to the visual
- [Who Owns the Passion?](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/who-owns-the-passion/) - 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 over this movie, I'm concerned at how Gibson forecloses any interpretation. 'It is as it was.' Disagree with the film in any way--even to point out how the Gospels are at variance with history--and you disagree
- [After The Passion](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/after-the-passion/) - You've seen The Passion of The Christ so many times now you can sing along to all the songs, and you're tired of your crucifixion nail, and even the drawing-and-quartering scene in Passion: The Prequel (also known as Braveheart) fails to set you aquiver. What to do? Fortunately, The Forward has a few ideas: How about a documentary by a young hasidic
- [John Kerry Clay](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/12559/) - Is John Kerry a man of clay? The Golem
- [Dreamers and Assassins](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/dreamers-and-assassins/) - "See the Dreamer in his wheelchair. A poor man. Paralyzed. Blind to this world..." Or was he? Photo-historian Michael Lesy takes a hard look at one of the disturbing images that came out of the Middle East last week in this latest, original "Revealing" essay. Concentrating on a photograph taken just days before the assassination of the terrorist
- [Sudans](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/5591/) - Abby Ohlheiser: In the collective gasp that followed the shooting in Tucson on Saturday, the story of the ongoing voting on a referendum for southern independence in Sudan was all but lost. We’re still catching up at The Revealer secret headquarters ourselves. Consensus in the coverage seems to be that the southern third of Sudan, which is mostly Christian and Animist, will vote for secession from the northern part of the country, which has a Muslim majority.
- [Ramdev's Hunger Strike Media Campaign](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/ramdevs-hunger-strike-media-campaign/) - Kathryn Montalbano: India, home to the longest-running hunger strike in the world, has a history of starvation as protest, most prominently stemming from the non-violent practices of Mahatma Ghandi who, single-handedly, turned the ubiquitous hunger strike into an Indian-specific political symbol. But contemporary criticism of the use of hunger strikes in India questions the virtuousness of the method, noting how recent protests often implement coercive, sometimes violent means to blackmail governments into compliance. Subhash Kashyap, former secretary-general of India's lower house of parliament, claims in an article by Ben Doherty, "Gandhi never fasted on major issues like his country's independence, or where there was room for difference of opinion. ...His hunger strikes were only for causes where there was so obvious a right and wrong 'that not conceding would be palpably unjust.'"
- [The Cultural Claims of the Dead](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-patient-body-the-cultural-claims-of-the-dead/) - “The Patient Body” is a monthly column by Ann Neumann about issues at the intersection of religion and medicine. This month: The power the dead have over us.
- [RIP: Public Funerary Rituals for American Celebrities in Turkey](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/rip-public-funerary-rituals-for-american-celebrities-in-turkey/) - Why are people in Turkey memorializing Aretha Franklin and Michael Jackson?
- [Georgia Cemetery Rituals: A Photo Essay](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/georgia-cemetery-rituals-a-photo-essay/) - Photojournalist Pete Kiehart captures Georgia's unique cemetery traditions.
- [Man Without a Country: "The Myth of the Muslim Tide"](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/man-without-a-country-doug-saunders-the-myth-of-the-muslim-tide/) - by Nora Connor His sociology is methodical, clear and convincing, but he’s bringing a slide-rule and a pocket protector to a gunfight.
- [31 August 2004 Daily Links](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/31-august-2004-daily-links/) - "The funniest philosopher of all time"? Scott McLemee, at The Chronicle of Higher Education, reviews The Humor of Kierkegaard: An Anthology (Princeton University Press). Thomas C. Oden, a theologian who introduces the collection, argues that Kierkegaard's humor "emerges from the realization of the infinite gap between even the loftiest ideals and most solemn efforts on the one hand and
- [Laicit](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/laicit/) - By Cidney Dutton Laïcité, the French term for the separation of church and state, is a relatively new concept for a country whose history is far longer than America's. Although passed only a century ago, the law of secularism was incorporated into the First Article of the Constitution of the French Fifth Republic. Some might
- [The Longest Hunger Strike](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-longest-hunger-strike/) - By Ann Neumann There are two places in the U.S. where you can be fed against your will: a Catholic hospital and a prison.
- [Everybody's Sacred Cows or Nobody's Sacred Cows? Equality for Impieties](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/everybodys-sacred-cows-or-nobodys-sacred-cows-equality-for-impieties/) - By Austin Dacey F. M. Husain was hounded out of his native India...by Hindu conservatives outraged by his nude portaits of Hindu goddesses.
- [Draw Muhammad, Hide](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/draw-mohammed-hide/) - Wendy Norris, the artist formerly known for getting facebook banned in Pakistan, has repeatedly and publicly denied starting "Everybody Draw Mohammad Day." According to AOL (via the Seattle Weekly), Norris has been forced to go into hiding.
- [A Human Right to Blaspheme?](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/a-human-right-to-blaspheme/) - by Austin Dacey Do you have a human right to blaspheme? Ask a philosopher and you may get two different answers.
- [(Excerpt) How to be a Muslim: An American Story](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/excerpt-how-to-be-a-muslim-an-american-story/) - An excerpt from How to Be a Muslim: An American Story by Haroon Moghul. With an introduction by the author.
- [Recording Angels - An Invitation](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/recording-angels-an-invitation/) - An invitation to Recording Angels: Witnessing Trauma at the Intersection of Race, Gender, Class, and Empire from Patrick Blanchfield
- [Being Brown: An Invitation](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/being-brown-an-invitation/) - Invitation to the March 8, 2018 public event Being Brown: Race, Religion, and Violence in Trump's America hosted by the NYU Center for Religion and Media.
- [Wakeful Unawareness](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-patient-body-wakeful-unawareness/) - “The Patient Body” is a monthly column by Ann Neumann about issues at the intersection of religion and medicine.
- [A Messy Divorce](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/a-messy-divorce/) - Let's say your congregation forsakes it's denomination for another. Who owns the building you meet in every week? On April 13 the Virginia Supreme Court will hear a case brought from Northern Virginia which asks who owns the property of 9 parishes that left the Episcopal Church to join the Convocation of Anglicans of North America. The
- [Healed and Whole Forever: On Psychedelic Science & Spirituality](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/healed-and-whole-forever-on-psychedelic-science-and-spirituality/) - Patricia Kubala explores the connection between drugs, healing, and spirituality online.
- [147th Anniversary of Lincoln's Conversion](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/147th-anniversary-of-lincolns-conversion/) - Oh dear. It comes around every year. The anniversary of the Gettysburg Address, given four months after the Battle of Gettysburg by President Abraham Lincoln; proof that the Republican, influenced for much of his life by Enlightenment ideas, finally, while standing on the death-place of 50,000 soldiers, gave it over to "orthodox Christianity."
- [Qu’est qui ce passe en France?](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/quest-qui-ce-passe-en-france/) - Ashley Baxstrom: What's up with France? President Nicolas Sarkozy of France joined President Barack Obama here in New York last week to celebrate the 125th anniversary of France’s gift of the Statue of Liberty to the US. The statue was originally dedicated on Oct. 28, 1886 in recognition of the French-American friendship established during the Revolutionary War. Both leaders hailed the statue as a symbol of freedom. “It is not simply a statue,” Sarkozy said through a translator. “It is a notion, an idea, an emblem. It is for all people of the world.” But while the French were proud to offer America “The Statue of Liberty Enlightening the World” (full titles, please), they seem to be having more trouble balancing the values of la liberté and l'éclaircissement in their own country.
- [Taking Tocqueville and Darwin for a Ride](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/taking-tocqueville-and-darwin-for-a-ride/) - By Nathan Schradle If something like a “Global Civil Society” ever becomes a reality (I’m picturing a giant face made of thousands of tiny robots, like in the Matrix Revolutions… only hopefully slightly less hell-bent on the destruction of the human species), it may want to give a huge shout-out to the year 1831. For starters, it’s the year that our very own New York University was founded, a university that recently played host to the dialogues that bear its name. Furthermore, as those who attended the third of the “NYU Dialogues on the Global Civil Society” can attest, the most recent speaker asserted that the stakes of such a conversation were first made plain in the very same year. On October 31st, 2011, Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks delivered his lecture, “The Great Partnership: Religion and the Moral Sense?” to a remarkably enthusiastic audience (when a group of about 15 students is lined up outside before the doors even open, “enthusiastic” might be an understatement). In an attempt to describe the role he sees religion playing in any “global civil society,” Lord Sacks pointed to two journeys that began in the year in question, specifically Charles Darwin’s voyage aboard the HMS Beagle and Alexis de Tocqueville’s journey to America. Sacks drew some eloquent parallels between the two trips, in which he established a set of binaries that constituted the crux of his argument: competition and cooperation, aggression and altruism, markets/politics and religion.
- [In the News: Racism, Ramadan, Romanian Witches and more!](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/in-the-news-racism-ramadan-romanian-witches-and-more/) - A round-up of the week's religion news.
- [Hope & Despair: Philosophical considerations for uncertain times](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/hope-despair-philosophical-considerations-for-uncertain-times/) - Maybe the only way things will turn out okay is if we accept that they might not.
- [In the News: Freud, Beyoncé, R’hllor, and more!](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/in-the-news-freud-beyonce-rhllor-and-more/) - A round-up of recent religion news.
- [Jesus, Pop Idol: Capturing the Tween Market](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/jesus-pop-idol-capturing-the-tween-market/) - by Kristina Loew There was a time when popular culture was a bastion of rebellion, a place where America’s youth could forge a new identity and give the middle finger to their parents. Not so these days, where purity rings have become fashionable, pop stars are giving regular shout-outs to Jesus and raunchiness is in remission. Could it be that the Christian right has finally infiltrated youth culture or is it just a new way to sell wholesomeness to a precarious demographic that is bringing in billions of dollars in business? Using family values to sell family entertainment is nothing new. Everyone from Ozzie and Harriet to Britney Spears has employed them to market their products, their shows and themselves. Back in the late 1950’s Mouseketeer Annette Funicello was carefully marketed by Disney as the quintessential “girl-next-door,” someone who was chaste and defined the morals of the time. Even Elvis and Aretha Franklin rose up through the ranks of popular music singing gospel.
- [Faith and Trust](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/faith-and-trust/) - The nomination of Elana Kagan to the Supreme Court has a few progressive commentators rightly chattering over the cartes blanches the Obama administration is receiving. Glenn Greenwald at Salon provides the most cogent summation of the illogic: Just think about what that means. If the choice is Kagan, you'll have huge numbers of Democrats and progressives running around saying, in essence: "I have no idea what Kagan thinks or believes about virtually anything, and it's quite possible she'll move the Court to the Right, but I support her nomination and think Obama made a great choice." In other words, according to Chemerinksy and Yglesias, progressives will view Obama's choice as a good one by virtue of the fact that it's Obama choice. Isn't that a pure embodiment of mindless tribalism and authoritarianism?
- [In the News: Apps, Apologies, Apocalypse and more!](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/in-the-news-apps-apologies-apocalypse-and-more/) - A round-up of the week's religion news.
- [Banning Contempt](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/banning-contempt/) - 01 February 2006 Jyllands-Posten, the Danish newspaper which prompted world-wide Muslim protests after publishing cartoons criticized as blasphemous, in which the Prophet Mohammed was depicted wearing a bomb-shaped turban or telling suicide bombers he'd "run out of virgins" with which to reward them, received multiple bomb threats yesterday, one day after it apologized for the publication. The cartoons, which
- [Political Cartoon](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/political-cartoon/) - 06 February 2006 Juan Cole takes a sober look at the Mohammad cartoon crisis, which led this weekend to the burning of Danish and Norwegian embassies, and attacks on Iraqi and Turkish Christian churches, and sees more politics than pure religion in the outcry. Country by country, he explains the extra-religious influences on the protests or riots: anti-war,
- [Dispatch #1 - September 7-13, 2015](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/salem-66-dispatch-1/) - Don Jolly covers the religion of the 2016 election season.
- [Daily Links: Conspiracy Edition](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/daily-links-conspiracy-edition/) - Nathan Schradle's Daily Links. Conspiracy, man. Can you dig it?
- [Mormon, Schmormon](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/mormon-schmormon/) - Things we love about the new Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life poll on "Mormons in America?" So glad you asked: Substitute your own word in here: "Many _____ feel they are misunderstood, discriminated against and not accepted by other Americans as part of mainstream society."
- [Daily Links 09 December 2004](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/daily-links-09-december-2004/) - Special Ops Bible Chuck Currie points to this Sojourners story on a new custom-line of Bibles that the Defense Department has commissioned for its elite U.S. Special Operations Command. The new Bibles will feature a custom-designed cover, special Army-designed color photos and text inserts, and "army-centric motivational messages." Stained Glass Ceiling Who leads the choir, teaches Sunday School,
- [In the News: Migration, Antisemitism, Climate Change & Vampires](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/in-the-news-migration-antisemitism-climate-change-vampires/) - A roundup of recent religion writing.
- [Iyad: An Epic of Modern Mali](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/iyad-an-epic-of-modern-mali/) - By Joe McKnight One name kept repeating itself: Iyad ag-Ghali, leader of Ansar Dine. It seems to me his story, and his political role, may be one that ends up profoundly altering Mali's future.
- [With Limits: Dusk Sets on the American Frontier](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/with-limits-dusk-sets-on-the-american-frontier/) - A review of Greg Grandin’s book The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America
- [Unsovereign Love: Thoughts on Race, Sex, and Undoing an Evangelical Education of Feeling](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/unsovereign-love-thoughts-on-race-sex-and-undoing-an-evangelical-education-of-feeling/) - Reflections on a popular story about a Black, ex-lesbian convert to Evangelical Christianity
- [Ecopiety: Green Media and the Dilemma of Environmental Virtue](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/ecopiety-green-media-and-the-dilemma-of-environmental-virtue/) - A book excerpt with an introduction by the author.
- [In the News: What Happened & What Now?](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/in-the-news-what-happened-what-now/) - A round-up of recent religion news.
- [The Conscience Clause: It's Not Just About 750,000 Hospital Employees](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-conscience-clause-its-not-just-about-750000-hospital-employees/) - There's much more at stake in the discussion about conscience clauses than who gets the bill for the pill. By Ann Neumann On January 20th Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced that contraception would be covered free-of-charge in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), the Obama administration's stifled, delayed-release attempt at reforming health care. The announcement included an exemption "for churches and houses of worship, but not for other religious institutions such as hospitals, universities and charities." Women's rights groups cheered the decision, having feared the worst after the record of "compromise" this administration has established. The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) did not cheer; they immediately orchestrated a campaign that included letters read at mass and heavy lobbying of conservative lawmakers and activists, peculiarly claiming that the decision was an affront to religious freedom. It was yet another sparkling demonstration of the access that bishops have over health care legislation. The Pope himself took the opportunity of a visit with U.S. bishops and military leaders on January 19th to lament the erosion of religious freedom, saying: When a culture attempts to suppress the dimension of ultimate mystery, and to close the doors to transcendent truth, it inevitably becomes impoverished and falls prey… to reductionist and totalitarian readings of the human person and the nature of society. Prohibit families from deciding when to have children, he threatened, or risk the specter of totalitarianism! Or rather, Comply with Catholic teaching and be free!
- [Chronicling C.S. Lewis: Marketing and Mythology](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/chronicling-c-s-lewis-marketing-and-mythology/) - 01 January 2006 Lewis' theology was concerned with myth, which is why he cannot be fully appropriated by the kind of evangelicalism that is buying up copies of Mere Christianity. By S. Brent Plate Several newspaper reporters phoned me in the weeks leading up to the opening of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and
- [Sweet Heaven](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/sweet-heaven/) - My predecessor, founding editor of The Revealer, Jeff Sharlet, has a new book out that you should all run to buy, Sweet Heaven When I Die: Faith, Faithless, and the Country In Between (W.W. Norton & Company, 264 pages). The thirteen essays that make up the book examine varieties of faith, however vastly defined by the people Jeff profiles in each. From philosopher Cornell West to anarchist Brad Will, from metaphysician Sondra to, well, me ("You Must Draw A Long Bead to Shoot a Fish"), Sharlet leads us through the "borderlands of belief and doubt."
- [Schradle's Links](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/schradles-links/) - Nathan Schradle Well, we are now TEN YEARS OLD.
- [Rethinking Mali's Political Culture](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/rethinking-malis-political-culture/) - by Alex Thurston The MNLA and Ansar al Din have dominated the headlines about Mali this spring and summer. But how have other Malian Muslims reacted to the crisis in the north, and to the partial “Islamization” of the conflict by Ansar al Din?
- [Good Gnus](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/good-gnus/) - Nextbook.org, a Jewish literature site, points the way to "The Mother Tongue Between Two Slices of Rye," an essay by novelist Gary Shteyngart on "refu-Jews" and writing new scripture for the new world: "I write my own Torah. It's called the Gnorah, an allusion to my nickname Gary Gnu, the name of an obscure television antelope which I have never
- [Shopping for Salvation in a Brand New World](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/shopping-for-salvation-in-a-brand-new-world/) - George Gonzalez asks "Will the revolution be commodified?"
- [Religion and Press Freedom in the Digital Age – Part Two: Al Jazeera on Trial](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/religion-and-press-freedom-in-the-digital-age-part-two-al-jazeera-on-trial/) - The second in a series of posts on issues at the intersection of press freedom, religion, digital media and politics by Natasja Sheriff .
- [Stonewall Jackson and Fundamentalism's Mythic Past](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/stonewall-jackson-fundamentalisms-mythic-past/) - Jeff Sharlet presents an excerpt from his 2008 book, The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power, to explain what Stonewall Jackson monuments look like to fundamentalists who tell themselves "it's not about race."
- [That's Why They Crucified Him:An Interview with James Cone](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/thats-why-they-crucified-him-an-interview-with-james-cone/) - by Joe McKnight I am sitting alone in this living room with the father of black liberation theology. An interview with Union Theological Seminary professor James Cone.
- [Cooking the Books: A Review of "The Revisionaries"](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/cooking-the-books-a-review-of-the-revisionaries/) - By Nathan Schradle The Revisionaries, a documentary about the Texas State Board of Education, debuted at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival.
- [In the News: Candles, Kombucha, Crocodiles, and more!](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/in-the-news-candles-kombucha-crocodiles-and-more/) - A round-up of the week's religion news.
- [In the News: Tunisian Politics, Miss Universe, Apocalyptic Thinking About Syria, and more](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/in-the-news-tunisian-politics-miss-universe-apocalyptic-thinking-about-syria-and-more/) - A round-up of religion in the recent news.
- [What’s a Kidney Worth?](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-patient-body-whats-a-kidney-worth/) - “The Patient Body” is a monthly column by Ann Neumann about issues at the intersection of religion and medicine.
- [Your Ethical and Religious Directives](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-patient-body-your-ethical-and-religious-directives/) - “The Patient Body” is a monthly column by Ann Neumann about issues at the intersection of religion and medicine.
- [Boehner's Progressive Catholic Problem](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/boehners-progressive-catholic-problem/) - E.J. Dionne, Jr. on the non-scandal that was John Boehner's address to Catholic University: And the story broke from the stereotypical narrative the media like to impose on Christians in general, and Catholics in particular. If the headline is “Conservative Catholics Denounce Liberal Politician on Abortion,” all the boilerplate is at the ready. But when the headline is “Catholic Progressives Challenge Conservative Politician on Social Justice,” this is something new and complicated. It’s far easier to write the 10th story of the week about Newt Gingrich.
- [Intubated Women, Catholic Health Care and What it Means to be Alive](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/intubated-women-catholic-leadership-and-what-it-means-to-be-alive/) - The Catholic Church understands far better than patients’ rights advocates do how religion, gender and sexuality work in society. If the debate about health care were focused on men’s bodies, the Church understands there would be a resounding call to make their hospitals subject to legal and medical standards. But because it’s about women’s bodies, the public conversation on all sides gets confused over issues of shame, pain, inconvenience, autonomy, social responsibility and voice.
- [Burkha Ban](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/burkha-ban/) - 13 October 2005 An anti-immigrant minister in the Netherlands has proposed a ban on the burkha in certain public places and transportation facilities, citing safety concerns. Muslim groups have objected to the move as an "irritant," arguing that very few women wear the burkha at all.
- [A Conversation with Shannon Taggart: Photographer of Séances, Spirits and Ectoplasm](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/a-conversation-with-shannon-taggart-photographer-of-seances-spirits-and-ectoplasm/) - Don Jolly profiles spirit photographer Shannon Taggart.
- [Remapping Space in the Wake of Violence](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/remapping-space-in-the-wake-of-violence/) - by Gordon Lynch Part of the shock of recent events in Norway is the contrast between the atrocity of the killings with the civilized, civic life of Oslo, and the beauty and peace of Utoya. The violence creates a rupture between the old, familiar meanings of these places, and the meanings they have today as places touched by evil and destruction. One of the inevitable processes following Friday’s mass killings is a redrawing of the symbolic and moral maps through which people there experience the world. The human experience of space is never simply that of SatNav technology, of space as something to be physically traversed as efficiently as possible. We also experience space in terms of its symbolic significance and the meanings that it has for shared cultural memory.
- [Daily Links 02 November 2004](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/daily-links-02-november-2004/) - For Those About to Rock Billboard: GOP would rather you did not rock the vote, thank you very much. Bush/Cheney evidently prefer punk: Ohio GOP poll challengers slam the vote. Christian Right Packs It Up, Calls It A Day Liberals getting giddy -- and delusional. Village Voice, two hours ago, "What If Kerry Wins": "The Christian
- [Church of Scouting](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/church-of-scouting/) - 16 February 2006 An appellate court case in California is currently underway to determine whether the Boy Scouts of America is a religious organization and thus barred under federal law from leasing public property and facilities from the City of San Diego under preferential terms. The current lawsuit began in 2000 when the ACLU sued San Diego
- [Sorkin Delenda Est](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/sorkin-delenda-est/) - It's time to give up our faith in centrist liberalism and cast down our West Wing idols.
- [Blind Absence](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/blind-absence/) - French-Moroccan writer Tahar Ben Jelloun recently won the $120,000 IMPAC Dublin literary award for his novel, This Blinding Absence of Light, the story of a Moroccan political prisoner who maintains his sanity by memorizing the Quran. BBC, AP, Reuters, and much of American and European press neglect the novel's Islamic themes.
- [What's a Nice Jewish Girl to Do?](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/whats-a-nice-jewish-girl-to-do/) - "How a beautiful, artistic, well-to-do Jewish girl became, by turns, a hippie and still later a fundamentalist Christian makes for a fascinating chapter in the story of postwar Jewish identity." Paul Zakrzewski reviews Assembling My Father in Forward.
- [The Bestselling Christian Books of 2010](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-bestselling-christian-books-of-2010/) - Thomas Nelson Publishers decided to tally up the 100 bestselling Christian books of 2010 (they used proprietary software; don't try this at home). While Thomas Hyatt, TN's chairman and CEO, posted the entire list at his website, we're going to take you up to only number 11 here because we're a little fascinated with the videos used to promote it (here and here).
- [Enemies Within: AP reporters versus the state](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/enemies-within-ap-reporters-versus-the-state/) - Jared Malsin reviews Matt Apuzzo and Adam Goldman’s book Enemies Within: Inside the NYPD's Secret Spying Unit and bin Laden's Final Plot Against America
- [Catholic Church Abuses Sex Abuse Victims](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/catholic-church-abuses-sex-abuse-victims/) - It's been more than a decade since the Catholic Church sex abuse scandal rocked Boston. In that time, Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) has provided national support to victims of abuse. But recently SNAP is finding that the Church's new approach to managing national lawsuits is not apology and reparation but counter-attack. Seeking to prove that SNAP is not a "rape crisis center" the Church is subpoenaing to access confidential communication between SNAP and victims, thus exposing victims to public scrutiny.
- [A 12-Step History?  Not so fast.](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/a-12-step-history-not-so-fast/) - Amy Levin: When religion in the news bestows a chance to show how complicated history can be, I’ll take it. Rabbi Shais Taub recently published an article in HuffPost Religion on Judaism and addiction recovery, explaining just how spiritually high some steps are in the Alcoholics Anonymous 12-step program. Taub has some compelling insights into the very spiritually fragile nature of recovering addicts, but what his post arguably lacks is the rich history of 12-step programs in America's expansive and vivid religious landscape.
- [In the News: TLC, THC, OMG!](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/in-the-news-tlc-thc-omg-2/) - A round-up of the week's religion news.
- [Old Philosophical Certainties](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-patient-body-old-philosophical-certainties/) - “The Patient Body” is a monthly column by Ann Neumann about issues at the intersection of religion and medicine.
- [Brokenheartlands: Arlie Russell Hochschild's Strangers in Their Own Land](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/brokenheartlands-arlie-russell-hochschilds-strangers-in-their-own-land/) - Patrick Blanchfield reviews Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right by Arlie Russell Hochschild.
- [Mapping the Spirit](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/mapping-the-spirit/) - Kameelah Janan Rasheed's archival exploration of Black religious life and movement produced in collaboration with Corey Tegeler
- [(Excerpt) Holocaust Memory in the Digital Age](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/excerpt-holocaust-memory-in-the-digital-age/) - An excerpt from Holocaust Memory in the Digital Age by Jeffrey Shandler. With an introduction by the author.
- [Fate on Hold: Jewish Collectors at War](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/fate-on-hold-jewish-collectors-at-war/) - What do we save? And for whom?
- [The Birth of Religion](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-birth-of-religion/) - We used to think agriculture gave rise to cities and later to writing, art and religion. Now the world's oldest temple suggests the urge to worship sparked civilization. by Charles C. Mann Below is an exclusive excerpt from the June issue of the National Geographic magazine, on newsstands now and online here: Anthropologists have assumed that organized religion began as a way of salving the tensions that inevitably arose when hunter-gatherers settled down, became farmers, and developed large societies. Compared to a nomadic band, the society of a village had longer term, more complex aims—storing grain and maintaining permanent homes. Villages would be more likely to accomplish those aims if their members were committed to the collective enterprise. Though primitive religious practices—burying the dead, creating cave art and figurines—had emerged tens of thousands of years earlier, organized religion arose, in this view, only when a common vision of a celestial order was needed to bind together these big, new, fragile groups of humankind. It could also have helped justify the social hierarchy that emerged in a more complex society: Those who rose to power were seen as having a special connection with the gods. Communities of the faithful, united in a common view of the world and their place in it, were more cohesive than ordinary clumps of quarreling people.
- [Religion-Secular, Tangled Divisions](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/religion-secular-tangled-divisions/) - What does it mean to pursue, inhabit, or lead a valuable, ethical life in a secular age? Are we living in a post-secular world? A review of two new essay collections.
- [](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/6252/) - States of Devotion, a publication of NYU's Hemispheric Institute edited by Ann Pellegrini, has a new "dossier" of articles that address same-sex marriage in the U.S. Pellegrini's introduction reads: That same Christian Century article contrasts the rising support for gay marriage, especially among younger Americans, with public attitudes towards legalized abortion. The survey found that support for abortion held steady over the past five years, but so did opposition to it. More significantly, there was no demonstrable generation gap, as there is on the same-sex marriage issue. That is, both support for and opposition to legalized abortion held steady across age groups.
- [In the News: Prisons Churches, Museums, and, of course, Hobby Lobby](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/in-the-news-prisons-churches-museums-and-of-course-hobby-lobby/) - A round-up of recent religion and media stories in the news.
- [In the News: Pundits, Prophets, Politics, and more!](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/in-the-news-pundits-prophets-politics-and-more/) - A round-up of the week's religion news.
- [The American Apocalyptic Sublime and the Twilight of Empire](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-american-apocalyptic-sublime-and-the-twilight-of-empire/) - Ed Simon pulls at the thread of eschatomania linking an apocalypitic puritan poem to today's news and literature.
- [Excursions in Unbelief: Retrieving Religion’s “Antitype” in U.S. History](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/excursions-in-unbelief-retrieving-religions-antitype-in-u-s-history/) - Geoffrey Pollick reviews Village Atheists: How America’s Unbelievers Made Their Way in a Godly Nation by Leigh Eric Schmidt
- [Daily Links: Big Fat Tolerance Edition](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/daily-links-big-fat-tolerance-edition/) - Russian gay extremists; Patronizing employers; A Brownback woman; Jesus' juice; Milquetoast Patel; Other, the world's 12th religion; Liberty wolves; ideology-smashing samaritan; Damn anarchists; Government by any other name (like the presidency); Tolerance ponies.
- [Tribal Alliances: The State of Israel & Native American Christianity (Excerpt)](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/tribal-alliances-the-state-of-israel-native-american-christianity-excerpt/) - Mark Clatterbuck studies a growing Zionist movement among Native American Christians.
- [Authentically Baptist](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/authentically-baptist/) - From the website of Central Baptist Church of Wayne, PA: In affirming the historic Baptist principle of non-creedalism, Central Baptist Church holds that this addendum to ABC’s identity statement is distinctly creedal, forcing one limited interpretation of Scripture upon the whole of American Baptists. This serves to silence the movement of the Holy Spirit in and through Scripture. Our Baptist ancestors would be horrified to see us sell out our Biblical principles by replacing the voice of Scripture with a human decree. We lament that this turn means that the American Baptist Churches USA is no longer authentically Baptist. (h/t Becky Garrison)
- [First, Do No Evangelizing](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/first-do-no-evangelizing/) - Ashley Baxstrom: New in the world of right-wing medical care: meet the American College of Pediatrics, “a national organization of pediatricians and other healthcare professionals dedicated to the health and well-being of children.” Warren Throckmorton, associate professor of psychology at Grove City College and Clinical Advisory Board member of the American Association of Christian Counselors set up a comparison between the ACP and the American Academy of Pediatrics on his blog. Apparently proponents of the ACP have been trying to say that they’re the “leading association,” have more members and have been around longer – all of which just isn’t true, according to Throckmorton.
- [Is the Left Behind?](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/is-the-left-behind/) - Diane Winston tells us what's missing from "Whatever Happened to the American Left?," an opinion piece by Michael Kazin, the editor of Dissent Magazine, which appeared in Sunday's New York Times. (I pointed a finger at it on Sunday.) Winston explains that Kazin neglects three important issues in his diagnosis of the invisible, hamstrung Left: the conservative movement didn't start in the 1970s; the American Left is not MIA, just underreported; and that he better not leave religion out of the conversation or he's missing an essential part of the political story.
- [The Politics of Healthcare Sharing Ministries](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-patient-body-the-politics-of-health-care-sharing-ministries/) - “The Patient Body” is a monthly column by Ann Neumann about issues at the intersection of religion and medicine. This month: Healthcare's religious objectors and exemptions.
- [Playing Amendment One](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/playing-amendment-one/) - Becky Garrison on the political positions played by media, voters, advocates and the president on Amendment One.
- [Scared Saved](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/scared-saved/) - Howard M. Friedman at Religion Clause notes that Americans United for the Separation of Church and State has announced a letter they presented to the Nebraska-based Todd Becker Foundation, an organization that offers presentations to high schools on the horrors of drunken driving. What's so bad about telling teens to stay sober or away from the wheel? Here's the foundation's description of what they do:
- [Evangelicals, Not Invited to the 9/11 Party](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/evangelicals-not-invited-to-the-911-party/) - The best and most prominent reminder of the diversity of American Christian thought arrived on the New York City mayor's desk this week, in the form of a petition with 62,000 signatures. It was written by that epicenter of hate speech, The Family Research Council (and City Councilman Fernando Cabrera, a Bronx pastor). FRC's beef? That the ceremony at the World Trade Center tomorrow will not include pastors or priests. Each year, in a ceremony format now a decade old, moments of silence break up the hours-long reading of names of those who died. Representatives from across the religious spectrum attend. But the petitioners want explicit prayers and they want them from their own leaders.
- [A Yellow Star for Mel](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/a-yellow-star-for-mel/) - At last -- the big day for what may be the biggest religion story in 2,000 years -- the theatrical release of The Passion. The mainstream press periodically discovers that institutional Christianity is actually pretty good at marketing. And then it forgets. Megachurches, Christian rock, Christian comic books, Bibles made to look like teen magazines --
- [Atheists in Foxholes](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/atheists-in-foxholes/) - To be a chaplain in the U.S. military, do you have to believe in God?
- [Doing Little for God or Conservatism](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/doing-little-for-god-or-conservatism/) - 05 January 2006 The surprisingly successful campaign of Chilean Socialist, agnostic presidential candidate, Michelle Bachelet, has been making global news for over a month, at The Washington Post,The Los Angeles Times, and the BBC, all of which make note of her lack of religion. Bachelet, a former victim of the Pinochet regime, is as open about her
- [34 Years to Find a Mormon Voice](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/34-years-to-find-a-mormon-voice/) - By Amy Levin We hear about the black vote, we hear about the Mormon vote, but we seldom-to-never hear about the black Mormon vote (or black Mormons at all, for that matter).
- [Flaunting Malignant Brilliance](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/flaunting-malignant-brilliance/) - by Adam H. Becker A Film Unfinished (2010, 90 min), directed by Yael Hersonski, is about footage shot in the Warsaw Ghetto in May of 1942. The original film, labeled on its canisters simply as “Das Ghetto,” presents itself as an ethnographic examination of Jewish life in the dire day-to-day existence of several hundred thousand Jews, forced to live within a walled-in space of three square miles with little to eat. It depicts, among other scenes, life in the market place, Jewish rituals -- from a bris (circumcision) to bathing in a miqveh (ritual bath) -- and the enforcement of order by Jewish security personnel. If not for one hitch, it would be a relatively straightforward depiction of the horrors of the Warsaw Ghetto, a place in which conditions anticipated the unforeseen eradication of much of the Ghetto’s population suffered not long after at Treblinka. The hitch is this: the original footage was shot by the Nazis for propaganda purposes. Although the footage was never used, it seems that the Nazis planned to make a film about the disparity between the rich and poor in the Ghetto. Opulent dinner scenes are interposed with shots of the emaciated bodies of starving Jews in the street. The meaning is clear: the Jews, a parasitic population who needed to be rounded up and put into the Ghetto for the safety of others, are so vile that when corralled together they turn upon their own. Yet again the Nazis point us to the extreme of their malignant brilliance. Whereas we expect those who commit great crimes to hide their deeds, to cover them up, and to lie about them, for “Das Ghetto” the camera was brought by the perpetrators to the scene of their own crime.
- [I Love You, I Do.](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/valentine-masters/) - We asked our Near and Dear to tell us something about today, the day when we celebrate love--or loss or absence or grief or joy or chocolate or the color red. Valentine's Day is one of those not-so-holy (or so-holiday) holidays we bump into on the annual calendar, on our way to spring, rebirth and Easter rising. We didn't really know what we'd get for our asking. It's an odd and fascinating assortment of reflections and observations from some of our favorite loves--our regular contributors, family and friends. Happy Valentine's Day! We love you, we do! "Month of Valentines" by Stacy Doris "#MyGrownUpValentine" by Ashley Baxstrom with image by Angela Zito "A Buddhist Valentine" by S. Brent Plate "My Friend" by Jacob Glatstein, translated from the Yiddish by Peter Manseau "A Valentine Offering" by Genevieve Yue "My Wish this Valentine's Day" by George González "A Simple Dinner" by Anthea Butler "St. Valentine's Fallen Face" by David Metcalfe "Heart in the Snow" by Mary Valle "A Red Bagel" by Adam Becker "The Gospel of Sacred Candy Hearts" by Amy Levin "Be Mine" by Jeremy Walton image: "Heart to Heart" by Angela Zito
- [19 June 2004 Daily Links](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/19-june-daily-links/) - The Islamist website that last Wednesday posted threats to kill American hostage Paul Johnson yesterday posted photographs of his decapitated body. A statement accompanied the photographs, saying: "This is to heal believer's hearts. It is God's voice rising in anger,"and that, "the group was determined to humiliate all 'polytheists until we establish a country of Islamic law
- [Haitian Spirits: A Photo Essay by Les Stone](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/haitian-spirits-a-photo-essay-by-les-stone/) - introduction and curation by Abigail Ohlheiser They're women and men (but mostly women) bathed in light, bathed in water, eyes to the sky, some touching and wearing crosses. They're possessed by spirits, dancing on dirt floors, fire in their mouths. Vodou in Haiti is like Catholicism, but not. Karen Brown wrote in her evocative book, Mama Lola: A Vodou Priestess in Brooklyn, that "Vodou Spirits, unlike the Catholic saints whose names they borrow, are characters defined by contradiction. The Vodou spirits represent the powers at work in and on human life."
- [Atomic Belief](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/atomic-belief/) - Ben Rutter: In the early months of the century, Sam Harris found himself apprenticed in the study of the brain. Combing over colored scans of minds at work, Harris, who is a graduate student, sought to correlate cognition and behavior. On September 12, 2001, his own behavior changed, and he began to write a book. Adjustments in his circuitry had corresponded in those days to the view that something in the world was going quickly, badly wrong. What was this? Elected leaders spoke of moral evil. For his colleagues at the MRI lab, the trouble hung in a mesh of inequalities. For Harris, however, the answer was more simple. The world had fallen ill not from want of goodness, or of goods, but from a diet poor in basic information...
- [The December Dilemma: Less Oy, More Joy](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-december-dilemma-less-oy-more-joy/) - How do Jewish-Christian interfaith families navigate the holiday season?
- [Winter Reading Recommendations](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/winter-reading-recommendations/) - Our staff suggests books by recent Revealer writers.
- [Ceding Authority: Notes on Identity and Power in the Classroom](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/ceding-authority-notes-on-identity-and-power-in-the-classroom/) - How can we support students whose identities and experiences are different from our own?
- [Media Partnership Application with Sacred Writes](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/media-partnership-application-with-sacred-writes/) - Apply for our writing fellowship opportunity!
- [Learning to Write about Religion](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/learning-to-write-about-religion/) - You, too, might be a religion writer.
- [La Llorona Visits the American Academy of Religion: A Tribute to Luís D. León](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/la-llorona-visits-the-american-academy-of-religion-a-tribute-to-luis-d-leon/) - Honoring a pioneering Latinx scholar of religion with the wailing female spirit known as La Llorona.
- [Hunted: Predation and Pentecostalism in Guatemala](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/hunted-predation-and-pentecostalism-in-guatemala/) - A book excerpt with an introduction by the author.
- [Thea Bowman: A Black Nun for Sainthood](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/thea-bowman-a-black-nun-for-sainthood/) - A nun who challenged the Catholic Church's racial injustices and her journey to sainthood.
- [Moses Speaks Spanglish](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/moses-speaks-spanglish/) - Bilingual and torn between identities, this writer imagines Moses as a proto-Latinx figure.
- [Hispaniola: Trujillo's Voudou Legacy](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/hispaniola-trujillos-voudou-legacy/) - In the aftermath of a 1937 massacre, Rafael Trujillo’s violent regime launched a campaign to demonize Haitians, using voudou as a principal identifier, reports Ezra Fieser from Dajabon in the Dominican Republic.
- [Editor's Welcome Letter](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/editors-welcome-letter/) - The Revealer's new Editor writes about the current issue, the Revealer's history, and its exciting future.
- [The Apocalypticists Are Disappointing](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-apocalypticists-are-disappointing/) - How do we face the climate crisis and ourselves?
- [Introducing the Quran to Europeans: The Orientalism of Translation](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/introducing-the-quran-to-europeans-the-orientalism-of-translation/) - The complicated history of Christians translating the Quran into European languages.
- [Forgiving the Unforgivable](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/forgiving-the-unforgivable/) - If you woke up and your spouse and two kids were gone. . .How could you forgive the person who did this?
- [America's Most Famous Catholic (According to Himself): Stephen Colbert and American Religion in the Twenty-First Century](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/americas-most-famous-catholic-according-to-himself-stephen-colbert-and-american-religion-in-the-twenty-first-century/) - A book excerpt with an introduction by the author
- [Representing Migration: Two photographers creating new ways to see history and sanctuary](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/representing-migration-two-photographers-creating-new-ways-to-see-history-and-sanctuary/) - Images that challenge us to see migration differently
- [Suffer the Children](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/suffer-the-children/) - Why the charge of child sacrifice thrives in our contemporary discourse.
- [Destruction on Display: The Politics of Preservation](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/destruction-on-display-the-politics-of-preservation/) - A review of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology's exhibition, “Cultures in the Crossfire: Stories from Syria and Iraq"
- [There is always hope: A conversation with Chaplain Imam Abdul-Wahab Omeira](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/there-is-always-hope-a-conversation-with-chaplain-imam-abdul-wahab-omeira/) - Lauren Pond interviews the Muslim chaplain at the California State Prison, Los Angeles County in Lancaster, California
- [Abusing Religion: Race, Islam, and Not Without My Daughter](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/abusing-religion-race-islam-and-not-without-my-daughter/) - The second installment in a three-part series about stories of abuse in minority religious communities and how they have influenced American culture
- [The Crusades: An Epitome](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-crusades-an-epitome/) - An excerpt from The Crusades: An Epitome with an introduction by the author
- [Make Paradise Great Again; or, the Most Subtle of the Beasts](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/make-paradise-great-again-or-the-most-subtle-of-the-beasts/) - Where paradises fall, so shall serpents be found: Snakes as awkward symbols of American defiance.
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- [Religious Freedom, Weapon of Choice](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/religious-freedom-weapon-of-choice/) - Rethinking American assumptions about liberty and history.
- [Totem and Tattoo: Is forgiveness an act of the will or of the body?](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/totem-and-tattoo-is-forgiveness-an-act-of-the-will-or-of-the-body/) - Conversations about forgiveness are empty debate unless we talk about the body.
- [Holy Humanitarians: American Evangelicals and Global Aid](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/holy-humanitarians-evangelicals-and-global-aid/) - An excerpt from Holy Humanitarians: American Evangelicals and Global Aid with an introduction by the author
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- [Reason: A Conversation with Anand Patwardhan](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/reason-a-conversation-with-anand-patwardhan/) - How Hindu nationalism is threatening Indian democracy
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- [Digital Islam and the New Sheikhs](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/digital-islam-and-the-new-sheikhs/) - How changes in technology are transforming Muslim religious authority
- [America and Other Fictions: On Radical Faith and Post-Religion](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/america-and-other-fictions-on-radical-faith-and-post-religion/) - An excerpt from America and Other Fictions: On Radical Faith and Post-Religion with an introduction by the author
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- [The Purest Kind of Ideology](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-purest-kind-of-ideology/) - “Political Feelings” is a bi-monthly column by Patrick Blanchfield about stories, scenes and studies of religion in American culture. This month: A conference about "Religion, Society, and the Science of Life"
- [Political Feelings: Derangement Syndromes](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/political-feelings-derangement-syndromes/) - “Political Feelings” is a bi-monthly column by Patrick Blanchfield about stories, scenes and studies of religion in American culture. This month: Derangement Syndromes.
- [Summer Camp at the Nightmare Factory](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/summer-camp-at-the-nightmare-factory/) - “Political Feelings” is a bi-monthly column by Patrick Blanchfield about stories, scenes and studies of religion in American culture.
- [God and Guns](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/god-and-guns/) - Patrick Blanchfield tracks the long-standing entanglement of guns and religion in the United States. Part 1 of 2.
- [Translating Scholarship: Can academics and the media work together?](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/translating-scholarship-can-the-media-and-academics-can-work-together/) - Professors and reporters need to find new ways to work together to shape public discourse on religion argues Elayne Oliphant.
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- [On Being Pagan in Prison](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/on-being-pagan-in-prison/) - The complexity and challenges of pagan belief in American prisons. Story and images by Lauren Pond.
- [Against Forgiveness: A Manifesto (Or, Miss Havishams of the World, Unite!)](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/against-forgiveness-a-manifesto-or-miss-havishams-of-the-world-unite/) - The first of a series of pieces about forgiveness, and refusing to forgive.
- [God and Guns: Part II](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/god-and-guns-part-ii/) - Patrick Blanchfield reflects on the long-standing entanglement of guns and religion in the United States. Part 2 of 2.
- [Why I Share My Story: Vulnerability, Representation & Empowerment](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/why-i-share-my-story-vulnerability-representation-empowerment/) - Being public is a political decision rooted in love and directed toward helping others see what they do not experience themselves.
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- [In the News: Mourning, Reckoning, and Looking Ahead](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/in-the-news-mourning-reckoning-and-looking-ahead/) - A roundup of recent religion writing.
- [Imagine this! Or Can a Church hierarchy become a Catholic community?](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/imagine-this-or-can-a-church-hierarchy-become-a-catholic-community/) - by Angela Zito Eight years in Catholic school, from which I liberated myself at the age of fourteen into public junior high, has put me into a Facebook flurry right now among former Catholic school kids now grown up. The slow-burning scandal of child-abuse covered up, which started in the minds of many as an
- [Soul Murder](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/soul-murder/) - “Political Feelings” is a bi-monthly column by Patrick Blanchfield about stories, scenes, and studies of religion in American culture.
- [Unearned Positions](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/unearned-positions/) - “The Patient Body” is a monthly column by Ann Neumann about issues at the intersection of religion and medicine. In this final installment: Misogyny and mass killings.
- [Hammams Then & Now: Changing Sites of Healing, Gathering, and Vulnerability](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/hamams-then-now-changing-sites-of-healing-gathering-and-vulnerability/) - A critical historicization of bathhouse cultures
- [Blessings of Business](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/blessings-of-business/) - Eden Consenstein reviews Blessings of Business: How Corporations Shaped Conservative Christianity by Darren Grem
- [Televised Redemption](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/televised-redemption/) - Sharrona Pearl reviews Televised Redemption: Black Religious Media and Racial Empowerment by Carolyn Moxley Rouse, John L. Jackson, Jr., and Marla F. Frederick
- [Battling our Demons, On Screen and Off](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/battling-our-demons-on-screen-and-off/) - S. Brent Plate on fighting the demonic stereotypes rampant in contemporary media.
- [Strange Characters; or, the Antecolumbian Imaginary](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/strange-characters-or-the-antecolumbian-imaginary/) - Ed Simon on how pre-Columbian contact theories play with a story of America that can be told and retold.
- [A Normal Woman](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/a-normal-woman/) - “The Patient Body” is a monthly column by Ann Neumann about issues at the intersection of religion and medicine. This month: When are women's bodies considered normal?
- [Rewatching The Crucible in the Moment of #MeToo](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/rewatching-the-crucible-in-the-moment-of-metoo/) - It's time to rethink our metaphors.
- [Health and Salvation](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/health-and-salvation/) - “The Patient Body” is a monthly column by Ann Neumann about issues at the intersection of religion and medicine. This month: Parish nursing
- [Industrial Strength Moral Compass](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/industrial-strength-moral-compass/) - “The Patient Body” is a monthly column by Ann Neumann about issues at the intersection of religion and medicine. This month: Faith leaders joining the environmental movement.
- [Scholarship, Activism, and Dad Jokes: A Conversation with Simran Jeet Singh](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/scholarship-activism-and-dad-jokes-a-conversation-with-simran-jeet-singh/) - Simran Jeet Singh speaks with us about activism, writing, and why he spends so much time on Twitter.
- [Consuming Religion](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/consuming-religion/) - George González reviews Kathryn Lofton's new book Consuming Religion
- [A Wrinkle in Time Isn't Religious Enough](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/a-wrinkle-in-times-missing-religion/) - Why isn't there more religion in Ava DuVernay's "A Wrinkle in Time"?
- [In the News: From Witchblr to Salinger](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/in-the-news-april-2018/) - A round-up of recent religion news.
- [Can Churches Speak?](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/can-churches-speak/) - A short history of religion, philanthropy, tax law, and political speech in the US
- [The Makeup Reformation](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-makeup-reformation/) - Race, representation, and Rihanna in the church of makeup.
- [Nevertheless, She Resisted: Problem Students and Hunting Girls](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/nevertheless-she-resisted-problem-students-and-hunting-girls/) - Can the same feminist politics work for teachers and students? Abby Kluchin on vulnerability, victimhood, resilience, and Title IX.
- [Rituals of Transformation in Jill Soloway’s "Transparent"](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/rituals-of-transformation-in-jill-soloways-transparent/) - Geoffrey Pollick analyzes the use of ritual in Jill Soloway's television show "Transparent."
- [Landscapes of the Secular](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/landscapes-of-the-secular/) - Jay Ramesh reviews Landscapes of the Secular: Law, Religion, and American Sacred Space by Nicolas Howe
- [Narratives of Female Pain](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-patient-body-narratives-of-female-pain/) - “The Patient Body” is a monthly column by Ann Neumann about issues at the intersection of religion and medicine. This month: Telling the story of gender and suffering.
- [Test of Faith: A Conversation with Photographer Lauren Pond](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/test-of-faith-a-conversation-with-photographer-lauren-pond/) - Lauren Pond speaks about her new book Test of Faith: Signs, Serpents, Salvation
- [Revealer Reborn!](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/revealer-reborn/) - Announcing the latest version of the magazine.
- [Pathological Sex](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-patient-body-pathological-sex/) - “The Patient Body” is a monthly column by Ann Neumann about issues at the intersection of religion and medicine.
- [Herd Immunity](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-patient-body-herd-immunity/) - “The Patient Body” is a monthly column by Ann Neumann about issues at the intersection of religion and medicine. This month: Emerging communities of resistance in public health and beyond.
- [The Patient Body: “Rome has spoken, the cause is finished”](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-patient-body-rome-has-spoken-the-cause-is-finished/) - “The Patient Body” is a monthly column by Ann Neumann about issues at the intersection of religion and medicine. This month: New hope for a break in the Catholic Church's grip on healthcare
- [Dispatch #7: One Hundred Years of Solid 'Tude](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/salem-66-dispatch-7-november-10-december-4-2015/) - Don Jolly covers the religion of the 2016 election season.
- [The Patient Body: Opioids: A Crisis of Misplaced Morality](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-patient-body-opioids-a-crisis-of-misplaced-morality/) - “The Patient Body” is a monthly column by Ann Neumann about issues at the intersection of religion and medicine. This month: Painkillers and morality in US media and politics
- [In the News: #MeToo, Goopification, Polemical Flatulence & much more!](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/in-the-news-metoo-goopification-polemical-flatulence-much-more/) - A round-up of recent religion news.
- [God is Good, Part 2: Field Notes from Nigeria](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/nigerian-field-notes/) - A series of vignettes from Southern Nigeria by Fortune Onyiorah
- [Prophets and Patriots: Faith in Democracy Across the Political Divide](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/excerpt-prophets-and-patriots-faith-in-democracy-across-the-political-divide/) - An excerpt from Prophets and Patriots: Faith in Democracy Across the Political Divide by Ruth Braunstein. With an introduction by the author.
- [God is Good: Religious Expression in Southern Nigeria](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/god-is-good-religious-expression-in-southern-nigeria/) - A photo essay from Southern Nigeria by Fortune Onyiorah
- [Why Sikhs Serve: The Tradition of Seva as Justice Inspired by Love](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/why-sikhs-serve/) - Simran Jeet Singh on the Sikh tradition of justice work.
- [The Siege at the Bridge: James Martin and the Fight Over LGBT Catholics](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-siege-at-the-bridge-james-martin-and-the-fight-over-lgbt-catholics/) - Michael Pettinger reviews Building a Bridge: How the Catholic Church and the LBGT Community Can Enter into a Relationship of Respect, Compassion, and Sensitivity by James Martin, SJ
- [Refusing to Vanish: Muslim Women’s AIDS Activism](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/refusing-to-vanish-muslim-womens-aids-activism/) - Laura McTighe, along with Waheedah Shabazz-El and Faghmeda Miller, tells the story of how two Muslim women have turned their personal struggles into public lives of meaning.
- [Devotion in the Desert: Religion and Emotion on the Margins of Hindu and Hippie](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/devotion-in-the-desert-religion-and-emotion-on-the-margins-of-hindu-and-hippie/) - Drew Thomases reports from Bhakti Fest, an annual yoga, sacred music, and personal growth festival in Joshua Tree.
- [“After the apocalypse, she missed her dog”](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/after-the-apocalypse-she-missed-her-dog/) - By Elizabeth A. Castelli Reading Lucy Corin’s One Hundred Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses
- [An Irresistible Force](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-patient-body-an-irresistible-force/) - By Ann Neumann The first of an ongoing monthly column, The Patient Body, about issues at the intersection of religion and medicine
- [The Bridge Beyond the Bridge](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-bridge-beyond-the-bridge/) - By Don Jolly The Bridge Beyond the Bridge: Mark Rathbun’s Search for the Future of Scientology
- [God's Favorite Place on Earth](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/gods-favorite-place-on-earth/) - By Maurice Chammah In Glen Rose, Texas, the director of a small Creation Evidence Museum expounds on his theories linking creationism, Israel, and laxatives.
- [Shahbag: Religion and Politics in Dhaka's Public Square](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/shahbag-religion-and-politics-in-dhakas-public-square/) - By Nayma Qayum War crimes trials usher in a new era of religious politics in a nation still suffering the wounds of a brutal war.
- [Good Ol' Job](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-last-twentieth-century-book-club-good-ol-job/) - The first of an ongoing monthly column, The Last Twentieth Century Book Club, is an exploration of religious ephemera by Don Jolly.
- [Erdoğan's Faithful](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/erdogans-faithful/) - In Istanbul, Jenna Krajeski talks to supporters of Turkish Prime Minister Erdoğan and finds that there is more to their loyalty than media portrayals suggest.
- [From Antelias to Bzoummar](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/from-antelias-to-bzoummar/) - Irina Papkova takes us on a tour of the religious centers that lie at the heart of Lebanon's Armenian Christian communities.
- [Fear of Death Removed](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-last-twentieth-century-book-club/) - The Last Twentieth Century Book Club, is an ongoing monthly column exploring religious ephemera by Don Jolly.
- [Death Porn Body Nonsense](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/death-porn-body-nonsense-2/) - The ostensible purpose of some images is to teach us something about life and death, but, Mary Valle asks, what else is going on when we seek out images of sick women's bodies.
- [A Closely-Held Business](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-patient-body-a-closely-held-business/) - “The Patient Body” is a monthly column by Ann Neumann about issues at the intersection of religion and medicine.
- [Intersections: Plate Interviews Gregory Grieve](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/intersections-plate-interviews-gregory-grieve/) - S. Brent Plate interviews digital religion scholar Gregory Price Grieve, a pioneer in the emerging field of religion in digital games.
- [Hitting the Wall: Art in Pakistan](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/hitting-the-wall-art-in-pakistan/) - From Karachi, Saba Imtiaz reports on the art scene in Pakistan and the challenges artists face when they choose religion and politics as their themes.
- [Mountains of Mulide: A Wartime Refuge](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/mountains-of-mulide-a-wartime-refuge/) - Rowan Moore Gerety travels to northern Mozambique to visit the granite caves of Mulide that served as both church and refuge during the country's civil war.
- [In The News: Is Santa White? Is the Pope a Marxist? What's a Christian Hipster?](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/in-the-news-is-santa-white-is-the-pope-a-marxist-whats-a-christian-hipster/) - A round-up of recent religion & media news.
- [How Christians Helped Create The Muslim Brotherhood](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/how-christians-helped-create-the-muslim-brotherhood/) - Maurice Chammah reviews Beth Baron's book The Orphan Scandal: Christian Missionaries and the Rise of the Muslim Brotherhood.
- [In the News: #blacklivesmatter, #Illridewithyou, TL;DR Bible Stories, and more!](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/in-the-news-blacklivesmatter-illridewithyou-tldr-bible-stories-more/) - A round-up of recent religion and media stories in the news.
- [The Great Organ Shortage](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-patient-body-the-great-organ-shortage/) - “The Patient Body” is a monthly column by Ann Neumann about issues at the intersection of religion and medicine.
- [A Mime, 30 Years in the Making](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/a-mime-30-years-in-the-making/) - Shruti Devgan reviews the play "Kultar's Mime" about the 1984 massacre of Sikhs in India.
- [Orson Welles’ The Life of Christ](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-last-twentieth-century-book-club-orson-welles-the-life-of-christ/) - "The Last Twentieth Century Book Club" is an ongoing monthly column exploring religious ephemera by Don Jolly.
- [Dark Dungeons](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-last-twentieth-century-book-club-dark-dungeons/) - "The Last Twentieth Century Book Club" is an ongoing monthly column exploring religious ephemera by Don Jolly.
- [Review: Stringer: A Reporter's Journey in the Congo](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/review-stringer-a-reporters-journey-in-the-congo/) - Jared Malsin reviews Stringer: A Reporter's Journey in the Congo by Anjan Sundaram.
- [Excerpt: American Canyon](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/american-canyon/) - An excerpt from American Canyon by Amarnath Ravva.
- [In the News: Hasidim, Mormons, Borges, and more!](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/in-the-news-hasidim-mormons-borges-and-more/) - A round-up of recent religion and media stories in the news.
- [The Identical](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-identical/) - Don Jolly and Ethan Poe review the new film The Identical.
- [Turning the Uyghur East](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/turning-the-uyghur-east/) - Umar Farooq reports from Pakistan and China on the history and present of Uyghur Muslims.
- [Moral Highs and Lows](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-patient-body-moral-highs-and-lows/) - “The Patient Body” is a monthly column by Ann Neumann about issues at the intersection of religion and medicine.
- [In the News: Captain America, Serpents, Google's Gods, and more!](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/in-the-news-captain-america-serpents-googles-gods-and-much-more/) - A round-up of recent religion and media stories in the news.
- [Review: Worlds Without End: The Many Lives of the Multiverse](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/review-worlds-without-end-the-many-lives-of-the-multiverse/) - Patrick Blanchfield reviews Mary-Jane Rubenstein's new book, Worlds Without End.
- [Review: Season of the Witch](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/review-season-of-the-witch/) - Don Jolly reviews Peter Bebergal's new book, Season of the Witch.
- [A Generation in Play: Israel, Palestine and the New Evangelicals](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/a-generation-in-play-israel-palestine-and-the-new-evangelicals-3/) - Maurice Chammah investigates ruptures in the traditionally steadfast American Evangelical support for Israel.
- [Deities & Demigods](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-last-twentieth-century-book-club-deities-demigods-2/) - "The Last Twentieth Century Book Club" is an ongoing monthly column exploring religious ephemera by Don Jolly .
- [To Take Place and Have a Place:  On Religion, White Supremacy & the People’s Movement in Ferguson](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/to-take-place-and-have-a-place-on-religion-white-supremacy-the-peoples-movement-in-ferguson/) - This is the first in a series of articles that Laura McTighe will be writing for The Revealer over the next year about issues at the intersection of race and religion.
- [Sulamith Ish-Kishor](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-last-twentieth-century-book-club-sulamith-ish-kishor/) - "The Last Twentieth Century Book Club" is an ongoing monthly column exploring religious ephemera by Don Jolly.
- [Religion and Press Freedom in the Digital Age – Part Three: Interview with Kassahun Yilma](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/religion-and-press-freedom-in-the-digital-age-part-three-interview-with-kassahun-yilma/) - The third in a series of posts on issues at the intersection of press freedom, religion, digital media and politics by Natasja Sheriff .
- [On Suicide](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-patient-body-on-suicide/) - “The Patient Body” is a monthly column by Ann Neumann about issues at the intersection of religion and medicine.
- [The Anchor Boys](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-anchor-boys/) - Maurice Chammah investigates the history and present of a Christian home for boys.
- [Salem Kirban, Part 2](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-last-twentieth-century-book-club-salem-kirban-part-2/) - "The Last Twentieth Century Book Club" is an ongoing monthly column exploring religious ephemera by Don Jolly .
- [Review: Secularism, Identity, and Enchantment by Akeel Bilgrami](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/review-secularism-identity-and-enchantment-by-akeel-bilgrami/) - Anand Venkatkrishnan reviews Philosopher Akeel Bilgrami's new collection of essays: Secularism, Identity, and Enchantment.
- [What’s wrong with Googling loss?](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/whats-wrong-with-googling-loss/) - Shruti Devgan finds what's missing in Google's promise to repair sacred losses.
- [Religion and Press Freedom in the Digital Age – Part One: Information on Trial](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/religion-and-press-freedom-in-the-digital-age-part-one-information-on-trial/) - The first in a series of posts on issues at the intersection of press freedom, religion, digital media and politics by Natasja Sheriff.
- [Poems in the Style and Spirit of Kabir](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/poems-in-the-style-and-spirit-of-kabir/) - Poems written in the style and spirit of Kabir by students in Professor Patton Burchett’s “Religions of India” course at New York University.
- [The End of Eating](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-patient-body-the-end-of-eating/) - “The Patient Body” is a monthly column by Ann Neumann about issues at the intersection of religion and medicine.
- [Guide to Survival](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-last-twentieth-century-book-club-guide-to-survival/) - "The Last Twentieth Century Book Club" is an ongoing monthly column exploring religious ephemera by Don Jolly .
- [Churches of Pain and Pleasure: Nymphomaniac's Theology](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/churches-of-pain-and-pleasure-the-psychological-theology-of-lars-von-triers-nymphomaniac/) - Ethan Poe on what's truly provocative about Lars von Trier's new film "Nymphomaniac" -- its psychological theology.
- [All Aboard the Ark: Rainbow Warriors vs. Climate Zombies](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/all-aboard-the-ark-rainbow-warriors-vs-climate-zombies/) - Competing claims about religion and the future of the planet on board Noah's Ark by Brook Wilensky-Lanford.
- [Erbil to Aleppo: Kurdistan, Islam and the Syrian War](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/erbil-to-aleppo-kurdistan-islam-and-the-syrian-war/) - Jenna Krajeski reports from Iraqi Kurdistan, where young Kurds are crossing the border to fight in Syria.
- [The Hindus, Hitler, and the Politics of Looking Forward](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-hindus-hitler-and-the-politics-of-looking-forward/) - Drew Thomases on censorship, nationalism, and memory in Indian publishing and electoral politics.
- [Monster in my Pocket](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-last-twentieth-century-book-club-monster-in-my-pocket/) - "The Last Twentieth Century Book Club" is an ongoing monthly column exploring religious ephemera by Don Jolly.
- [We Don’t Go Weird: Sister Wives Takes the Strange out of Polygamy](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/we-dont-go-weird-sister-wives-takes-the-strange-out-of-polygamy/) - Eden Consenstein uncovers the radical normalcy of TLC's reality show "Sister Wives."
- [Power of Source](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-last-twentieth-century-book-club-power-of-source/) - The Last Twentieth Century Book Club, is an ongoing monthly column exploring religious ephemera by Don Jolly.
- [Faith, A Chronic Condition](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-patient-body-faith-a-chronic-condition/) - “The Patient Body” is a monthly column by Ann Neumann about issues at the intersection of religion and medicine.
- [Farewell, Little Piece of Me](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/farewell-little-piece-of-me/) - An excerpt from Cancer Doesn't Give a Shit About Your Stupid Attitude: Reflections on Cancer and Catholicism by Mary Valle.
- [Solidarity and Separation: Religious Spirit and the Euromaidan](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/solidarity-and-separation-religious-spirit-and-the-euromaidan/) - By Irina Papkova. During protests in Ukraine, a show of solidarity belied the divided nature of the country’s confessional landscape.
- [Turmoil at Al-Azhar: Religion, Politics, and the Egyptian State](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/behind-the-scenes-at-al-azhar-university/) - Jared Malsin on the religious and political stakes of upheaval at Egypt's Al-Azhar University.
- [Noah: Story and Medium](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/noah-story-and-medium/) - David Morgan gives us a picture of what's really going on with literalist objections to the new movie "Noah."
- [Adoption Reform, Right-to-Life Style](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/adoption-reform-right-to-life-style/) - Kathryn Joyce reveals what's really going on with the adoption reform bill currently being debated in Ohio.
- [Copts in a Revolutionary Age: Egypt's Last Secularists?](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/copts-in-a-revolutionary-age-egypts-last-secularists/) - Jared Malsin reports from Cairo on the political choices facing Coptic Christians in today's Egypt.
- [Carman, Part 2](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-last-twentieth-century-book-club-carman-part-2/) - The Last Twentieth Century Book Club, is an ongoing monthly column exploring religious ephemera by Don Jolly.
- [A Special Sustaining Power](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-patient-body-a-special-sustaining-power/) - “The Patient Body” is a monthly column by Ann Neumann about issues at the intersection of religion and medicine.
- [The Secular Square](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-secular-square/) - Maurice Chammah reviews Oscar-nominated documentary film, The Square.
- [Burma: Faith and Resistance in Kachin](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/burma-faith-and-resistance-in-kachin/) - Photographer Ryan Roco investigates the role of religion in the lives of the Kachin people in northern Burma after decades of civil war.
- [The Sunday Assembly: Time for a Religion Free Megachurch Revival?](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-sunday-assembly-time-for-a-religion-free-megachurch-revival/) - Becky Garrison explores what's really going on with the growth of atheist churches.
- [The Postmodern Gospel: A theologian uses two exemplars of postmodernity to argue against capitalism](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-postmodern-gospel/) - A theologian uses two exemplars of postmodernity to argue against capitalism. By Fred Folmer.
- [Carman](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-last-twentieth-century-book-club-carman/) - The Last Twentieth Century Book Club, is an ongoing monthly column exploring religious ephemera by Don Jolly .
- [Weekend Links: Tattooed Jesus, Putin's Repression, the Mahabharat TV Series, and more!](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/weekend-links-tattooed-jesus-putins-repression-the-mahabharat-tv-series-and-more/) - A round-up of religion and media stories from around the web.
- [Chapel Perilous: Notes From The New York Occult Revival](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/chapel-perilous-notes-from-the-new-york-occult-revival/) - Don Jolly reports on New Yorkers attempting to revive and study the occult.
- [HelalSexShop.com](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/halalsexshop-com/) - Elizabeth Hewitt writes about a new halal sex shop in Turkey.
- [Performing Piety](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/performing-piety/) - Maurice Chammah reviews a new book on Egypt's swing towards public religiosity and the celebrities who reinvented their image as beacons of worship and charity.
- [Bangladesh: Taking Sides](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/bangladesh-taking-sides/) - In the aftermath of contested elections, Nayma Qayum looks at the origins of continuing tensions in Bangladesh and a growing ideological divide.
- [Diminishing Returns: Sufi Shrines in Pakistan's Politics](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/diminishing-returns-sufi-shrines-in-pakistans-politics/) - From Pakistan, Umar Farooq looks at the diminishing political role of Sufi saints and shrines in a rapidly urbanizing Pakistan.
- [Speak Out!](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-last-twentieth-century-book-club-speak-out/) - The Last Twentieth Century Book Club, is an ongoing monthly column exploring religious ephemera by Don Jolly .
- [Hospitals and the Pretense of Charity](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-patient-body-hospitals-and-the-pretense-of-charity/) - “The Patient Body” is a monthly column by Ann Neumann about issues at the intersection of religion and medicine.
- [In the News: Paris, Witches, the CNN Apocalypse, and more!](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/in-the-news-paris-witches-the-cnn-apocalypse-more/) - A round-up of recent religion and media stories in the news.
- [In the News: Passover, Prison, Pop Music , and more!](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/in-the-news-passover-prison-pop-music-and-more/) - A round-up of recent religion and media stories in the news.
- [In the News: Lindsey Graham, Garland, TX, God's Plaintiff, and more!](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/in-the-news-lindsey-graham-garland-tx-gods-plaintiff-and-more/) - A round-up of the week's religion news.
- [In the News: Mad Men, Mormons, Monks, and more!](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/in-the-news-mad-men-mormons-monks-and-more/) - A round-up of the week's religion news.
- [In the News: Hip Hop, Hijabs, Hasidic Fashion, and more!](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/in-the-news/) - A round-up of the week's religion news.
- [In the News - Heathens, Hymns, and Holy Men](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/in-the-news-heathens-hymns-and-holy-men/) - A round-up of the week's religion news.
- [In the News: Wax, Wits, William James, and more!](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/in-the-news-wax-wits-william-james-and-more/) - A round-up of the week's religion news.
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- [In the News: Voting, Protesting, and Distracting](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/in-the-news-voting-protesting-and-distracting/) - A round-up of recent religion news.
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- [In the News: Secularism, Nationalism, Pastafarianism, and more!](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/in-the-news-that-dragon-difference-discrimination-and-more/) - A round-up of recent religion news.
- [In the News: Elvis, Thoreau, Oprah, and more!](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/in-the-news-elvis-thoreau-oprah-and-more/) - A round-up of the week's religion news.
- [In the News: Bernie, Bagels, Buddahs, and more!](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/in-the-news-bernie-bagels-buddahs-and-more/) - A round-up of the week's religion news.
- [In the News: Reading & Resisting](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/in-the-news-reading-resisting/) - A round-up of recent religion news.
- [In the News: Protests, Polemics, and Pastries](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/in-the-news-protests-polemics-and-pastries/) - A round-up of recent religion news.
- [In the News: It's grim, but at least there's a GIF](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/in-the-news-its-grim-but-at-least-theres-a-gif/) - A round-up of recent religion news.
- [Dispatch #8 - December 10, 2015](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/salem-66-dispatch-8-december-10-2015/) - Don Jolly covers the religion of the 2016 election season.
- [Accusing the FDA of Playing God](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-patient-body-accusing-the-fda-of-playing-god/) - A monthly column by Ann Neumann about issues at the intersection of religion and medicine.
- [Mortality and the American Dream](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-patient-body-mortality-and-the-american-dream/) - A monthly column by Ann Neumann about issues at the intersection of religion and medicine.
- [Dispatch #6 – October 26 - November 9, 2015](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/salem-66-dispatch-6-october-26-november-9-2015/) - Don Jolly covers the religion of the 2016 election season.
- [In the News: Westboro, Paris, Haiti, and Beyond!](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/in-the-news-westboro-paris-haiti-and-beyond/) - A round-up of the week's religion news.
- [Review: List of the Lost by Morrissey](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/review-list-of-the-lost-by-morrissey/) - Kevin Healey reviews List of the Lost by Morrissey.
- [Dispatch #3 – September 19-October 10, 2015](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/salem-66-dispatch-3-september-19-october-10-2015/) - Don Jolly covers the religion of the 2016 election season.
- [Dispatch #4 – October 11-October 16, 2015](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/salem-66-dispatch-4-october-11-october-16-2015/) - Don Jolly covers the religion of the 2016 election season.
- [Using Disability](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-patient-body-using-disability/) - “The Patient Body” is a monthly column by Ann Neumann about issues at the intersection of religion and medicine.
- [Climate Change and the Dharma of Failure](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/climate-change-and-the-dharma-of-failure/) - Roy Scranton on Buddhism in the Anthropocene.
- [Dispatch #5 – October 17-25, 2015](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/salem-66-dispatch-4-october-17-25-2015/) - Don Jolly covers the religion of the 2016 election season.
- [Dispatch #2 – September 14-20, 2015](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/salem-66-dispatch-2-september-14-20-2015/) - Don Jolly covers the religion of the 2016 election season.
- [Memorials and Body Counts](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-patient-body-memorials-and-body-counts/) - “The Patient Body” is a monthly column by Ann Neumann about issues at the intersection of religion and medicine.
- [Review: Islam in Liberalism (Part 3)](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/review-islam-in-liberalism-part-3/) - Najam Haider reviews Islam in Liberalism by Joseph Massad
- [Review: Religion, Science, and Empire](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/review-religion-science-and-empire/) - Anand Venkatkrishnan reviews Religion, Science, and Empire by Peter Gottschalk.
- [Review: Islam in Liberalism (Part 2)](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/review-islam-in-liberalism-part-2/) - Fouad Halbouni reviews Islam in Liberalism by Joseph Massad.
- [Review: Teresa, My Love](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/review-teresa-my-love/) - Abby Kluchin reviews "Teresa, My Love" by Julia Kristeva.
- [The Making of a Moonie](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-last-twentieth-century-book-club-the-making-of-a-moonie/) - This is the final installment of "The Last Twentieth Century Book Club," Don Jolly's monthly column exploring religious ephemera.
- [Al-Ahd: A Different Kind of Ramadan Serial](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/al-ahd-a-different-kind-of-ramadan-serial/) - Patricia Kubala watches “Al-Ahd,” Egypt’s first fantasy television drama.
- [Impossible Purity](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/the-patient-body-impossible-purity/) - “The Patient Body” is a monthly column by Ann Neumann about issues at the intersection of religion and medicine.

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- [Episode 64: Transgender Perspectives on the Bible](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/podcast/episode-64-transgender-perspectives-on-the-bible/) - Why turn to the Bible to look for insights on transgender people and gender variation, especially when so many anti-trans people use the Bible to justify bigotry? Joseph Marchal and Melissa Harl Sellew, two editors of the book Trans Biblical: New Approaches to Interpretation and Embodiment in Scripture, join us to discuss what it means
- [Episode 63: Religious Communities Supporting Undocumented Immigrants](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/podcast/episode-63-religious-communities-supporting-undocumented-immigrants/) - How are some religious communities working to support and protect undocumented immigrants in the United States? Barbara Sostaita, author of Sanctuary Everywhere: The Fugitive Sacred in the Sonoran Desert, joins us to discuss why some religious people believe it is their duty to help migrants. What specific things are religious communities able to do for
- [Episode 62: Black Catholics and Racism in the U.S. Catholic Church](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/podcast/episode-62-black-catholics-and-racism-in-the-u-s-catholic-church/) - What is the history of Black Catholics in the United States, and what are the most pressing issues facing Black Catholics today? Tia Noelle Pratt, author of Black and Catholic: Racism, Identity, and Religion, joins us to discuss Black Catholics and racism in the Catholic Church. In what ways does the U.S. Catholic Church perpetuate
- [Episode 61: Protestant Sex Scandals in America](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/podcast/episode-61-protestant-sex-scandals-in-america/) - Why have sex scandals been such a common feature of Protestant leadership in the United States? Suzanna Krivulskaya, author of Disgraced: How Sex Scandals Transformed American Protestantism, joins us to discuss the history of public sex scandals among Protestant pastors. What do these scandals say about the culture? How have disgraced ministers tried to rehabilitate
- [Episode 60: The Rightwing Radicalization of White Christian Boys](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/podcast/episode-60-the-rightwing-radicalization-of-white-christian-boys/) - What factors are contributing to the rightwing momentum among adolescent males in the United States? Angela Denker, author of Disciples of White Jesus: The Radicalization of American Boyhood, joins us to discuss the rightward movement of white Christian boys and young men. What messages are teen boys receiving from social media influencers, youth pastors, and
- [Episode 59: Borders, Immigration, and Religion](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/podcast/episode-59-borders-immigration-and-religion/) - What are the connections between borders, immigration, and religion? Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, author of Heaven Has a Wall: Religion, Borders, and the Global United States, joins us to discuss the United States’ deep investment in and fixation on national borders. What legal rights does anyone have within 100 miles of any of America’s national borders?
- [Episode 58: A Black Panther Woman, Spirituality, and Today’s Activism](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/podcast/episode-58-a-black-panther-woman-spirituality-and-todays-activism/) - What exactly was the Black Panther Party, what did it set out to achieve, and what parallels exist between today and when the Black Panthers first started? Mary Frances Phillips, author of Black Panther Woman: The Political and Spiritual Life of Ericka Huggins, joins us to talk about a prominent female member of the Black
- [Episode 57: Police, Prisons, and the Religion of Mass Criminalization](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/podcast/episode-57-police-prisons-and-the-religion-of-mass-criminalization/) - Given the amount of police and prisons in the United States, why is there still so much crime and what does that say about the effectiveness, or lack thereof, of policing and incarceration? Andrew Krinks, author of White Property, Black Trespass: Racial Capitalism and the Religious Function of Mass Criminalization, joins us to discuss the
- [Episode 56: The People Destroying Democracy](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/podcast/episode-56-the-people-destroying-democracy/) - Who are the organizations, people, religious communities, and think tanks that are working to erode America’s democracy and push the country to authoritarianism? Acclaimed investigative journalist Katherine Stewart, author of Money, Lies, and God: Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy, joins us to discuss these groups, how they’re funded, and the power of their
- [Episode 55: Religion Is Everywhere and Why That Matters](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/podcast/episode-55-religion-is-everywhere-and-why-that-matters/) - What are the countless insidious ways religion manifests in our culture, in our politics, and in our daily lives even if we ourselves are not religious people? Megan Goodwin and Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst, authors of Religion Is Not Done with You: Or, the Hidden Power of Religion on Race, Maps, Bodies, and Law, join us
- [Episode 54: The Limits of Forgiveness](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/podcast/episode-54-the-limits-of-forgiveness/) - Why does our culture celebrate forgiveness and how can the pressures to forgive cause harm to people who have already been wronged? What role does Christianity play in this cultural pressure, and what are common Christian message about forgiveness? Kaya Oakes, author of Not So Sorry: Abusers, False Apologies, and the Limits of Forgiveness, joins
- [Episode 53: Public School Secularization and Desegregation](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/podcast/episode-53-public-school-secularization-and-desegregation/) - What exactly happened following the Supreme Court’s decisions outlawing prayer and devotional Bible readings in public schools, as well as the outlawing of racial segregation? Leslie Beth Ribovich, author of Without a Prayer: Religion and Race in New York City Public Schools, joins us to discuss public school secularization and desegregation, and the legacies of
- [Episode 52: The Changing Black Church](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/podcast/episode-52-the-changing-black-church/) - For the past few decades, several Black Christian denominations have seen a significant decline in religious affiliation and church attendance. Jason Shelton, author of The Contemporary Black Church: The New Dynamics of African American Religion, joins us to discuss what has contributed to these changes and how the Black church’s decline is altering Black life
- [Episode 51: Christian Nationalism, Charismatic Christians, and Political Violence](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/podcast/episode-51-christian-nationalism-charismatic-christians-and-political-violence/) - What role did the substantial movement of Charismatic Christians play in January 6, and how are they shaping today’s Christian nationalism? Matthew D. Taylor, author of The Violent Take It by Force: The Christian Movement That is Threatening Our Democracy, joins us to discuss Charismatic Christianity, its prominent growth, and its place in the Republican
- [Episode 50: Jewish Solidarity with the Pro-Palestine Protests](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/podcast/episode-50-jewish-solidarity-with-the-pro-palestine-protests/) - For our 50th episode, we’re discussing American Jews who participate in activism to support justice for Palestinians. What has taken place over the past decade or so that has pushed many American Jews, especially younger Jews, to criticize Israel and to express solidarity with Palestinians? Oren Kroll-Zeldin, author of Unsettled: American Jews and the Movement
- [Episode 49: Jewish Bodies and Jewish Celebrities](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/podcast/episode-49-jewish-bodies-and-jewish-celebrities/) - For what reasons do some people express shock when they learn that celebrities like Zac Efron and Drake are Jewish? What does their surprise say about people’s assumptions about Jewish identity and race? Jonathan Branfman, author of Millennial Jewish Stars: Navigating Racial Antisemitism, Masculinity, and White Supremacy, joins us to discuss stereotypes of Jews in
- [Episode 48: Elisabeth Elliot: Evangelical Icon and Her Alarming 3rd Marriage](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/podcast/episode-48-elisabeth-elliot-evangelical-icon-and-her-alarming-3rd-marriage/) - Elisabeth Elliot was a longtime leader and icon within evangelical Christian communities who taught about marriage, sexuality, and gender roles. Liz Charlotte Grant, author of The Revealer article “Elisabeth Elliot, Flawed Queen of Purity Culture, and Her Disturbing Third Marriage” joins us to discuss her article about Elliot that went viral as soon as we
- [Episode 47: Latino Faith-Based Activism and the New Sanctuary Movement](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/podcast/episode-47-latino-faith-based-activism-and-the-new-sanctuary-movement/) - With workplace raids, family separation, detention centers, and deportations, how are religious communities responding to issues facing Latinos in the United States? Gina Pérez, author of Sanctuary People: Faith-Based Organizing in Latina/o Communities, joins us to discuss faith-based activism within Latino communities and the New Sanctuary Movement. We discuss the religious roots of the sanctuary
- [Episode 46: Muslims in Pop Culture](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/podcast/episode-46-muslims-in-pop-culture/) - How have media depictions of Muslims been changing in recent years? Rosemary Pennington, author of the new book Pop Islam: Seeing American Muslims in Popular Media, joins us to discuss the place of Islam in American media. We discuss how Muslims have turned to pop culture to broaden ideas about Islam, how some Muslim performers
- [Episode 45: LGBTQ Republicans](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/podcast/episode-45-lgbtq-republicans/) - LGBTQ Republicans and LGBTQ conservatives are more common than many people may realize. Neil Young, author of Coming Out Republican: A History of the Gay Right, joins us to discuss LGBTQ conservatives and their place within the Republican Party. We discuss how gay Republicans responded to the rise of the anti-queer religious right in the
- [Episode 44: Contemporary Christian Music’s Political and Religious Messages](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/podcast/episode-44-contemporary-christian-musics-political-and-religious-messages/) - What are the religious and political messages the massive Contemporary Christian Music industry broadcasts? Leah Payne, author of God Gave Rock and Roll to You: A History of Contemporary Christian Music, joins us to discuss why evangelical leaders invested so heavily in this industry and why they especially wanted it to resonate with teenagers. We
- [Episode 43: Ex-Evangelicals and U.S. Politics](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/podcast/episode-43-ex-evangelicals-and-u-s-politics/) - What is contributing to the growing and prominent movement of ex-evangelicals in the United States? Sarah McCammon, a National Political Correspondent for NPR and author of the forthcoming book The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church, joins us to discuss why so many people are leaving white evangelicalism and how that exodus
- [Episode 42: Religion’s Role in Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/podcast/episode-42-religions-role-in-russias-invasion-of-ukraine/) - How has Russia used religion as a tactic and justification for its invasion of Ukraine? Dr. Nicholas Denysenko, author of The Church’s Unholy War: Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine and Orthodoxy, joins us to discuss the place of Orthodox Christianity within Russia’s war against Ukraine. How has Russia used the Orthodox Church to influence life in
- [Episode 41: Sexual Ethics for Today's World](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/podcast/episode-41-sexual-ethics-for-todays-world/) - How do your sexual behaviors reflect and influence your broader social interactions? Ethicist Dr. Rebecca Epstein-Levi, author of When We Collide: Sex, Social Risks, and Jewish Ethics, joins us to discuss sexual ethics for today’s world. What does it mean to be sex positive? What might the rabbis of the Talmud, writing more than a
- [Episode 40: Religion and Reproductive Rights](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/podcast/episode-40-religion-and-reproductive-rights/) - The fight to make abortion access legal, just like the fight to outlaw abortion, is one replete with religious voices. For this episode, two experts on religion and reproductive rights join us to discuss these issues. First, we chat with Dr. Gillian Frank about religious leaders, like Reverend Elinor Yeo, who helped thousands of people
- [The Revealer Podcast Teaser](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/podcast/the-revealer-podcast-teaser/) - Coming March 30, 2020! The Revealer online magazine will begin publishing podcast episodes that correspond to our monthly issues. If you're curious about the intersection of religion, race, politics, sexuality, gender, and culture, stay tuned for the all-new Revealer Podcast!
- [Episode 1: The Catholic Church Sex Abuse Crisis and the Problem with Spotlights](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/podcast/episode-1-the-catholic-church-sex-abuse-crisis-and-the-problem-with-spotlights/) - In our first episode, host Brett Krutzsch interviews Dr. Brian Clites, who has spoken with more than 70 survivors of sexual abuse within the Catholic Church. What are the consequences of the intense media scrutiny that survivors face? And how can all of us take steps to better support survivors of clergy abuse?
- [Episode 2: Yoga and Emotional Wellbeing](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/podcast/episode-2-yoga-and-emotional-wellbeing/) - Host Brett Krutzsch is joined by Dr. Shreena Ghandi to discuss all things yoga. Beginning with yoga’s popularity among white women, the conversation covers new yoga trends, including the growing turn to yoga as a therapeutic practice, and how yoga classes are helping people during a global pandemic.
- [Episode 3: The AIDS Epidemic, Queer Identity, and Catholicism](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/podcast/episode-3-the-aids-epidemic-queer-identity-and-catholicism/) - In this episode, National Correspondent for America magazine Michael O’Loughlin joins us for a conversation about the AIDS crisis, queer identity, Catholicism, and what these issues can teach us about the present day. The discussion touches on politics, pandemics, and reconciling queer identities with religion. O'Loughlin is the host of the podcast Plague: Untold Stories
- [Episode 4: Hasidic Jewish Heretics](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/podcast/episode-4-hasidic-jewish-heretics/) - This episode explores Hasidic Jews who lead double lives. Dr. Ayala Fader, author of Hidden Heretics: Jewish Doubt in the Digital Age, joins host Brett Krutzsch for a conversation about Hasidic Jews who privately reject their tradition’s teachings, but who continue to practice Hasidic Judaism publicly. They also discuss why Hasidic communities are flourishing in
- [Episode 5: The Museum of the Bible’s Evangelical Mission](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/podcast/episode-5-the-museum-of-the-bibles-evangelical-mission/) - The Museum of the Bible has attracted much scrutiny since it opened in 2017. In this episode, Dr. Jill Hicks-Keeton joins us to discuss the museum’s evangelical endeavors. We also explore why the museum has been embroiled in so many scandals, what role the Green family of Hobby Lobby plays in shaping the museum’s evangelical
- [Episode 6: Black Muslim Men's Fashion](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/podcast/episode-6-black-muslim-mens-fashion/) - Dr. Kayla Wheeler joins us for a conversation about why fashion is an important thing to consider when trying to understand religion. The discussion focuses on Black Muslim men’s fashion and explores how some Black Muslim men’s styles have influenced their religious beliefs and the broader culture. The episode also considers the recent corporate retail
- [Episode 7: Christian Nationalism and the 2020 Election](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/podcast/episode-7-christian-nationalism-and-the-2020-election/) - Investigative journalist Katherine Stewart, author of the acclaimed book The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism, joins us to discuss what Christian nationalists want if Trump stays in office, why many of them are comfortable with the erosion of democracy, and what people can do who oppose Christian nationalism and want to
- [Episode 8: The Religious Vote for Biden and Harris](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/podcast/episode-8-the-religious-vote-for-biden-and-harris/) - This episode features conversations with four people from four different religious traditions about the 2020 election. Each is also an expert in religion. They discuss why they are voting for Biden and Harris, how their expertise guides what they would say to others who are wavering on their vote, and what they hope for the
- [Episode 9: Crafting Jewish Identity](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/podcast/episode-9-crafting-jewish-identity/) - In our last episode of 2020, we examine the role of crafting within American Judaism. Dr. Jodi Eichler-Levine, author of Painted Pomegranates and Needlepoint Rabbis: How Jews Craft Resilience and Create Community, joins us to discuss why focusing on crafting can give us a fuller understanding of American Judaism, how thinking about crafting can transform
- [Episode 10: Black Lives Matter and American Catholics](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/podcast/episode-10-black-lives-matter-and-american-catholics/) - In our first episode of 2021, journalist Olga Segura, author of Birth of a Movement: Black Lives Matter and the Catholic Church, joins us to discuss the place of religion in the Black Lives Matter movement. We explore why Church leaders need to partner with Black Lives Matter, how the Catholic Church upholds white supremacy,
- [Episode 11: Mormons and Changing Ideas about Gender and Sexuality](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/podcast/episode-11-mormons-and-changing-ideas-about-gender-and-sexuality/) - This episode explores issues of gender and sexuality in Mormon communities. Dr. Taylor Petrey, author of Tabernacles of Clay: Sexuality and Gender in Modern Mormonism, joins us to discuss the Church of Jesus Christ and Latter Day Saints’ current positions on gender and the place of LGBTQ Mormons. We explore tensions within Mormon communities around
- [Episode 12: Latino Americans and the Popularity of Prosperity Gospel Pentecostalism](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/podcast/episode-12-latino-americans-and-the-popularity-of-prosperity-gospel-pentecostalism/) - This episode explores the surging popularity of Prosperity Gospel Pentecostalism among Latino Americans. Dr. Tony Tian-Ren Lin, author Prosperity Gospel Latinos and Their American Dream, joins us to explain what the Prosperity Gospel entails and why it has been so appealing to Latino Americans, especially to new immigrants. We discuss how the Prosperity Gospel gives
- [Episode 13: Faith-Based Prisons in the United States](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/podcast/episode-13-faith-based-prisons-in-the-united-states/) - What are faith-based prisons and why are they legal in the United States? Dr. Brad Stoddard, author of Spiritual Entrepreneurs: Florida’s Faith-Based Prisons and the American Carceral State, joins us to discuss why several states operate “faith and character-based correctional facilities.” We explore who goes to these prisons, how faith-based prisons theoretically promote religious pluralism,
- [Episode 14: San Francisco’s “AIDS Church” and the 40th Anniversary of HIV/AIDS](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/podcast/episode-14-san-franciscos-aids-church-and-the-40th-anniversary-of-hiv-aids/) - June 2021 marks forty years since the first identified cases of what came to be known as HIV/AIDS. In this episode we chat with Dr. Lynne Gerber about a predominantly gay church in San Francisco and how it responded to the AIDS epidemic. We discuss how that church and its minister helped a gay community
- [Episode 15: Holocaust Tourism](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/podcast/episode-15-holocaust-tourism/) - As travel reopens throughout the world, we are taking a look at the popularity of “Holocaust tourism.” Dr. Daniel Reynolds, author of Postcards from Auschwitz: Holocaust Tourism and the Meaning of Remembrance, joins us to discuss why millions of people travel to Nazi concentration camps and other sites of Holocaust memorialization each year, what messages
- [Episode 16: Evangelical Masculinity](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/podcast/episode-16-evangelical-masculinity/) - What are evangelical men taught about gender and their place in the world? Dr. Bradley Onishi, a scholar of religion and host of the Straight White American Jesus podcast, joins us to discuss why evangelical men valorize aggressive masculinity. We also explore what evangelical men are taught about their sexual desires, how evangelical conceptions of
- [Episode 17: Sex Education and Religion in Public Schools](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/podcast/episode-17-sex-education-and-religion-in-public-schools/) - What role has religion played in shaping sex education in America’s public schools? Dr. Kristy Slominski, author of Teaching Moral Sex: A History of Religion and Sex Education in the United States, joins us to discuss why liberal Protestant leaders wanted sex education in America’s schools. We explore what teachings sex educators promoted about gender
- [Episode 18: Religion and Climate Change](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/podcast/episode-18-religion-and-climate-change/) - This episode features conversations with three experts on religion and climate change who have investigated how different communities have responded to the climate crisis. Our discussion begins with Dr. Amanda Baugh. She has been exploring Latinx Catholics’ conservation actions and examining how environmental activism can become less centered on white Americans. Next, Dr. Adrienne Krone
- [Episode 19: Religion and the CIA](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/podcast/episode-19-religion-and-the-cia/) - What role has religion played in the CIA’s missions around the world? Dr. Michael Graziano, author of Errand into the Wilderness of Mirrors: Religion and the History of the CIA, joins us with captivating stories about religion in America’s Central Intelligence Agency. We explore how the CIA set out to understand religious traditions across the
- [Episode 20: Combating Islamophobia in America](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/podcast/episode-20-combating-islamophobia-in-america/) - Why is Islamophobia so common in the United States? Dr. Caleb Elfenbein, author of the book Fear in Our Hearts: What Islamophobia Tells Us about America, joins us to discuss what Islamophobia reveals about life in America today. We explore why anti-Muslim fear persists throughout the country, how Muslim communities have responded to Islamophobia, and
- [Episode 21: Hollywood, Movies, and American Jews](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/podcast/episode-21-hollywood-movies-and-american-jews/) - American Jews have contributed significantly to the movie industry. But has Hollywood sufficiently depicted American Jewish life? Dr. Helene Meyers, author of the book Movie-Made Jews: An American Tradition, joins us to discuss the place of Jews on screen and how movies have contributed to shaping American Jewish identities. We explore the role antisemitism has
- [Episode 22: Black Christians and Hip Hop](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/podcast/episode-22-black-christians-and-hip-hop/) - How has hip hop transformed Black Christianity? Dr. Erika Gault, author of the book Networking the Black Church: Digital Black Christians and Hip Hop, joins us to discuss the role hip hop plays among Black Christians. We explore how hip hop and social media have helped people who feel ostracized by traditional Black churches, connections
- [Episode 23: For Putin, God, and Country: American Converts to the Russian Orthodox Church](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/podcast/episode-23-for-putin-god-and-country-american-converts-to-the-russian-orthodox-church/) - Why are Americans with no ethnic ties to Russia converting to the Russian Orthodox Church? Dr. Sarah Riccardi-Swartz, author of Between Heaven and Russia: Religious Conversion and Political Apostasy in Appalachia, joins us to discuss why people who are displeased with American culture are converting to Russian Orthodoxy. We explore their political views, their frustrations
- [Episode 24: Black Buddhists and Healing the Traumas of Racism](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/podcast/episode-24-black-buddhists-and-healing-the-traumas-of-racism/) - How are Black Buddhists using Buddhism to heal from the traumas of racism? Dr. Rima Vesely-Flad, author of Black Buddhists and the Black Radical Tradition, joins us to discuss why Black Americans have been turning to Buddhist teachings and practices to deal with living in a white supremacist society. We also explore how Buddhism has
- [Episode 25: Pray Away on Netflix, Conversion Therapy, and Ex-LGBTQ Ministries](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/podcast/episode-25-pray-away-on-netflix-conversion-therapy-and-ex-lgbtq-ministries/) - What happens when people go to Christian organizations that promise to help them change their sexuality or gender identity? Kristine Stolakis, director of Netflix’s acclaimed documentary Pray Away, and Lynne Gerber, author of Seeking the Straight and Narrow, join us to discuss conversion therapy and ex-LGBTQ ministries. We explore the beliefs these organizations promote about
- [Episode 26: Religion and Pornography](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/podcast/episode-26-religion-and-pornography/) - Why are various religious communities, as well as some non-religious Americans, deeply concerned about the place of pornography in the United States? Dr. Kelsy Burke, author of The Pornography Wars: The Past, Present, and Future, of America’s Obscene Obsession, joins us to discuss longstanding battles over pornography. We explore why various religious communities oppose pornography,
- [Episode 27: Catholic Horror](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/podcast/episode-27-catholic-horror/) - What connections can be made between horror films and novels where Catholicism is prominent to actual horrors committed by the Catholic Church? Three experts of American Catholicism – Drs. Jack Downey, Matthew Cressler, and Kathleen Holscher – join us to discuss Catholic horror, both fictional and real. We explore why Catholicism has been such a
- [Episode 28: Religious Cultural Appropriation](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/podcast/episode-28-religious-cultural-appropriation/) - What is religious cultural appropriation, and how might many of us be engaged in it right now? Dr. Liz Bucar, author of the forthcoming book Stealing My Religion: Not Just Any Cultural Appropriation, joins us to discuss why religious appropriation is so common. We explore prominent examples of religious borrowing, from non-Muslim women wearing a
- [Episode 29: Gender Diversity in Islam and Judaism](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/podcast/episode-29-gender-diversity-in-islam-and-judaism/) - This episode explores gender diversity in present-day Islam and in Jewish history. We chat with Dr. Katrina Thompson to learn how transgender and nonbinary Muslims are transforming Islam and creating spaces specifically for trans and queer Muslims. And we chat with Dr. Max Strassfeld to learn about the eight gender categories the rabbis of the
- [Episode 30: Atheists in America](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/podcast/episode-30-atheists-in-america/) - In what ways are atheists stigmatized, and what are some reasons for social divisions among atheists? Chris Stedman, author of Faitheist: How an Atheist Found Common Ground with the Religious, joins us to discuss the 10th anniversary of his landmark book. We explore how atheists have partnered with religious communities to address social issues, why
- [Episode 31: The Corporate Space Race and Religion](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/podcast/episode-31-the-corporate-space-race-and-religion/) - Why are corporations and billionaires like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos invested in space exploration? Mary-Jane Rubenstein, author of Astrotopia: The Dangerous Religion of the Corporate Space Race, joins us to discuss the corporate space race and its connections to religion. We explore why the corporate space race is so concerning, what religious ideas undergird
- [Episode 32: The FBI and White Christian Nationalism](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/podcast/episode-32-the-fbi-and-white-christian-nationalism/) - How did the Federal Bureau of Investigations contribute to the rise of white Christian nationalism? Lerone A. Martin, author of The Gospel of J. Edgar Hoover: How the FBI Aided and Abetted the Rise of White Christian Nationalism, joins us to discuss the place of religion and race at the FBI. Why did J. Edgar
- [Episode 33: Jewish Comedy](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/podcast/episode-33-jewish-comedy/) - What is the connection between comedy and American Jews? Jennifer Caplan, author of Funny, You Don’t Look Funny: Judaism and Humor from the Silent Generation to Millennials, joins us to discuss the place of humor within American Jewish communities. How did Jews become disproportionately represented in comedy fields like standup and television writing? For what
- [Episode 34: Evangelicals’ Anxieties and Their Politics](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/podcast/episode-34-evangelicals-anxieties-and-their-politics/) - Why do so many white evangelicals, despite holding tremendous political power, feel threatened by feminism, LGBTQ progress, and movements for racial justice? Sarah Diefendorf, author of The Holy Vote: Inequality and Anxiety Among White Evangelicals, joins us to discuss how evangelicals’ anxieties shape their political involvement. We explore their image problem among people who are
- [Episode 35: Vodou, Gender Variance, and Black Politics Today](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/podcast/episode-35-vodou-gender-variance-and-black-politics-today/) - Countless people find Vodou meaningful as a spiritual tradition and as a source of inspiration within a white supremacist world, and yet the tradition remains largely misunderstood. Eziaku Nwokocha, author of Vodou En Vogue: Fashioning Black Divinities in Haiti and the United States, joins us to discuss Vodou practices, especially as they relate to issues
- [Episode 36: Summer Camp and American Jews](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/podcast/episode-36-summer-camp-and-american-jews/) - How did summer camps become such an important aspect of the American Jewish experience? Sandra Fox, author of The Jews of Summer: Summer Camp and Jewish Culture in Postwar America, joins us to discuss what led to the growth and popularity of sleepaway camps for Jewish adolescents. We explore why Jewish communities invested so heavily
- [Episode 37: Reagan’s Religious Vision for America and the Impact Today](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/podcast/episode-37-reagans-religious-vision-for-america-and-the-impact-today/) - What were Ronald Reagan’s religious views, how did they shape his politics, and how did they transform the United States? Diane Winston, author of Righting the American Dream: How the Media Mainstreamed Reagan’s Evangelical Vision, joins us to discuss how the media normalized Reagan’s conservative Christian influence on American politics. We explore how his evangelical
- [Episode 38: Muslims Using Female Pronouns for God](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/podcast/episode-38-muslims-using-female-pronouns-for-god/) - Why are some Muslims using female pronouns for God? Hafsa Lodi, author of The Revealer article, “The Muslim Women Using Feminine Pronouns for Allah,” joins us to discuss a growing trend among Muslim women. We explore Islam’s teachings about God’s gender, why Muslims have primarily used male pronouns for Allah, what some believe using female
- [Episode 39: The Spiritual Birthing Movement](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/podcast/episode-39-the-spiritual-birthing-movement/) - What is the spiritual birthing movement? Ann Duncan, author of Sacred Pregnancy: Birth, Motherhood, and the Quest for Spiritual Community, joins us to discuss the organizations and businesses that imbue pregnancy with a sense of the sacred. What do these groups offer pregnant people that they aren’t finding in traditional medical settings or traditional religious
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- [The Last Twentieth Century Book Club](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/column/the-last-twentieth-century-book-club/)
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- [In the Godforsaken Wilderness](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/column/in-the-godforsaken-wilderness/)
- [From the Margins](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/column/from-the-margins/)
- [Not So Sorry](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/column/not-so-sorry/)
- [More than Missionary](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/column/more-than-missionary/)

## Issues

- [October 2017](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/issue/october-2017/)
- [Magnum Foundation: On Religion](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/issue/magnum-foundation-on-religion/)
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- [Special Column - August 2018](https://therevealerstg.wpenginepowered.com/issue/august-2018-special-column/)
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