Teenage Holy War
Behind-the-scenes with the most militant Christian youth cruade in America. By
Jeff Sharlet. Continue Reading →
a review of religion and media
Behind-the-scenes with the most militant Christian youth cruade in America. By
Jeff Sharlet. Continue Reading →
A historian of Christian martyrdom attends a Christian Right strategy session in the “War on Christians.
By Elizabeth A. Castelli
A ballroom at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, D.C., was the setting last week for a conference called “The War on Christians and the Values Voter in 2006,” sponsored by Vision America, an organization committed to the project of “restoring the original American vision.” As Vision America’s president, Rick Scarborough, put it in his welcome letter to participants, “The goal of this conference is to contribute to a genuine revival of the Christian faith in America and to advance a proper understanding of the role of the church in American life.” There to help 400 Christian conservative activists achieve this understanding was Tom DeLay along with fellow Texan Senator John Cornyn and a stageful of conservative Christian powerbrokers, among them Rod Parsley, Phyllis Schafly, and Gary Bauer. Senator Sam Brownback was scheduled to speak but couldn’t make it, forcing former presidential candidate Alan Keyes to fill his time. Continue Reading →
Secularists, ecumenicists, agnostics: Watch out for Jim Wallis, warns Elizabeth A. Castelli. The evangelical leader and would-be political savior of liberalism brings more than passion for the poor to a liberalism Continue Reading →
Secularists, ecumenicists, agnostics: Watch out for Jim Wallis, warns Elizabeth A. Castelli. The evangelical leader and would-be political savior of liberalism brings more than passion for the poor to a liberalism Continue Reading →
Today begins the three day public conference of New York University’s Center for Religion and Media, the institution at which The Revealer is published. It’s a stunning line-up that anyone with proximity to Continue Reading →
Late breaking Passion news from the Jewish Forward: “Emotions in the auditorium became so intense that during the crucifixion scene, some young rowdies bolted out to the street where they assaulted Continue Reading →
Can you feel it? Shockwave! Today’s the big day when teen prayer warriors around the world go to war. Spiritual, that is. Read The Revealer‘s exclusive report by Elizabeth A. Castelli. Shockwave! The Continue Reading →
New media prayer warriors try to shake the world. By Elizabeth A. Castelli The banner reads: “Shockwave: Identify Yourself with the Rest of the World.” Sign up, plug in, kneel Continue Reading →
New media prayer warriors try to shake the world. By Elizabeth A. Castelli The banner reads: “Shockwave: Identify Yourself with the Rest of the World.” Sign up, plug in, kneel Continue Reading →
We followed our own brand new Revealer press crit page to Tyndall Report, a weekly examination of the network news, and were shocked to discover that apparently, it’s all about religion. How do we Continue Reading →