a review of religion and media
Jeff Sharlet: Harper’s has posted the entirety of my feature from its May issue, “Soldiers of Christ: Inside America’s Most Powerful Megachurch,” the first half of which I posted here Continue Reading →
Revealer contributor Holly Berman writes: The New York Times series on class, launched with a statistically compelling, if bloodless, overview of class divisions in the United States has continued with Continue Reading →
Sharlet: Spent the morning in an interview with Matthew Wells, a BBC radio reporter who’s been working the evangelical politics beat in America for the sake of worried Europeans. Should Continue Reading →
Everything but the longing: Peter Bebergal: “I have begun collecting psychedelic music again, almost twenty years after I traded my entire original collection for bag of pot, mostly seeds and Continue Reading →
The following is the first half of “Soldiers of Christ: Inside America’s Most Powerful Megachurch,” a feature by Revealer editor Jeff Sharlet in the May, 2005 issue of Harper’s. Continue Reading →
A Democratic Senator’s Surprising Bout of Name-Calling By Kate Hawley Perhaps Colorado Senator Ken Salazar was consolidating his liberal base after a series of conservative-friendly votes. Or maybe Jim Gibson, Continue Reading →
“Evangelical Christianity’s dance with secular culture has always been a complicated one. Whereas Biola once trained students to use modernism’s devices, like the scientific method and rational argument, to undercut Continue Reading →
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 Continue Reading →
Canadian Muslim and author of The Trouble With Islam, Irshad Manji, argues against one-dimensional perceptions of Islam, today on NPR’s The Leonard Lopate Show. Listen. The latest news in God-garb: U.K. company Laceys Footwear has apologized for Continue Reading →
Gwynne Dyer, in the Trinidad and Tobogo Express, laments the state of religion and politics in Nigeria — especially as the two relate to a contentious polio vaccination campaign. The governor Continue Reading →