Today at 3 pm eastern time (and thereafter online): Revealer editor Jeff Sharlet on Wisconsin’s Public Radio’s “Here on Earth, with Jean Feraca,” to discuss religion in writing from around the world. Click on the program described as being about the roots of the Shi’ite/Sunni conflict. That subject will be covered by Richard McGill Murphy, a senior editor at Fortune Small Business, whose essay on the Shi’ite sermons in Pakistan — along with a translated sermon — can be found in the special world religion edition of one of The Revealer‘s favorite websites, Words Without Borders: “The preacher had a rubbery, expressive face that reminded me of Walter Matthau as the broken-down Little League baseball coach in The Bad News Bears. His name was Sayyid Nasim Abbas. Over ten sermons, Sayyid Nasim told the entire story of Karbala to an audience of weeping mourners. Each sermon was about an hour long, of which roughly the first forty minutes were taken up by a didactic lecture about the religious duties of Shi’ism. In the last third of the sermon, Sayyid Nasim switched registers entirely, delivering a highly emotive serial account of the tragedy to which his black-clad audience responded with tears and lamentation…” Read more. Hear more.

Today at 3 pm eastern time (and thereafter online): Revealer editor Jeff Sharlet on Wisconsin’s Public Radio’s “Here on Earth, with Jean Feraca,” to discuss religion in writing from around the world. Click on the program described as being about the roots of the Shi’ite/Sunni conflict. That subject will be covered by Richard McGill Murphy, a senior editor at Fortune Small Business, whose essay on the Shi’ite sermons in Pakistan — along with a translated sermon — can be found in the special world religion edition of one of The Revealer‘s favorite websites, Words Without Borders: “The preacher had a rubbery, expressive face that reminded me of Walter Matthau as the broken-down Little League baseball coach in The Bad News Bears. His name was Sayyid Nasim Abbas. Over ten sermons, Sayyid Nasim told the entire story of Karbala to an audience of weeping mourners. Each sermon was about an hour long, of which roughly the first forty minutes were taken up by a didactic lecture about the religious duties of Shi’ism. In the last third of the sermon, Sayyid Nasim switched registers entirely, delivering a highly emotive serial account of the tragedy to which his black-clad audience responded with tears and lamentation…” Read more. Hear more.