With news about abortion bans, anti-trans legislation, and rising Christian nationalism, the Center for Religion & Media is pleased to publish several podcast episodes of the Revealer podcast that focus on religion and politics: Our newest episode, “Latino Faith-Based Activism…
Monsters Series
Few things are better at teaching us about our own world than monsters. Lurking at the edges, deforming desecrations of the human, they also paradoxically enable insight for transformation. This new series investigates the power, appeal, and fear of monsters…
The Revealer Podcast – 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…
The Revealer Podcast – San Francisco’s “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 Revealer Podcast — 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…
The Revealer Podcast – 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…
Virtual Event! Christian Nationalism & the 2020 Election: What’s at Stake for the Separation of Church & State
Join us on Tuesday, October 27th at 7 pm EST for a conversation with Katherine Stewart, author of The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism. Brett Krutzsch (NYU) will host the conversation about threats to the separation of church and state, what Christian nationalists want…
The Revealer’s Summer 2020 Issue
The Revealer’s Summer issue features stories about Black Lives Matter protests and religion, how the pandemic is changing the work of college chaplains, the merger of Hinduism with capitalism in India, hate speech that women academics face, a review of…
The Revealer Podcast – 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…
The Revealer Podcast – The AIDS Epidemic, Queer Identity, & Catholicism
In this episode of the Revealer podcast, 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. O’Loughlin is the…