A Priest, a Rabbi, and George Carlin Walk Into Heaven...- June 30, 2008 The universe is in balance, George Carlin once said, because Jesus has a little statue of a middle-class American hypocrite on his dashboard. In a bold move, NBC pays tribute to the dead comic with an old Saturday Night Live...http://www.therevealer.org/archives/today_003068.php Fresh Brains for Zombie Buddha!- June 29, 2008 You just can't kill this Buddha. By Jeff Sharlet Six Realms of Rebirth Killing the Buddha.com -- god for the godless, cheaper than church, Allah in the family -- rises from the grave, again. The website Peter Manseau, Jeremy Brothers and I founded in 2000, declared dead once and for all after numerous resurrections during the last two years, marches back onto the internet like a zombie in search of fresh brains. And KtB has found them: three Revealer (and NYU journalism grad school) alumni,.http://www.therevealer.org/archives/main_story_003066.php Jewish Anarchists- June 28, 2008 In the late 19th century, the biggest political movement in Jewish America was anarchism, equally opposed to church and state. One of the offspring of that movement was a Yiddish paper called Freie Arbeiter Stimme, "The Voice of Labor," lovingly documented in this hour long film available for a free download here.http://www.therevealer.org/archives/timeless_003065.php Mystical Realism- June 25, 2008 The NYT delivers news of The Shack, a gi-normous bestseller of a Christian novel, to the secular world, comparing its sales to Eckhart Tolle's new age blockbuster, A New Earth. But the paper misses the more interesting connection between Tolle's...http://www.therevealer.org/archives/today_003064.php The Diane Rehm Show- June 24, 2008 Sharlet: I'll be discussing my new book, The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power, on The Diane Rehm Show, from 11-noon, east coast time....http://www.therevealer.org/archives/today_003063.php Christian Right Revealer Radio- June 16, 2008 And Family news.http://www.therevealer.org/archives/timely_003062.php Southern Baptist Style and Substance- June 16, 2008 harlet: Bob Smietana, religion reporter for the Tennessean and occasional Revealer contributor, responds to my Friday post on the most overlooked religion story of last week, the change in leadership of America's biggest Protestant denomination, the Southern Baptist Convention..http://www.therevealer.org/archives/timely_003061.php The 'F' Word- June 14, 2008 What Rick Warren, a founder of modern advertising, and the dirtiest word in politics don't have in common. Adapted from The Family, by Jeff Sharlet, and excerpted here from CounterPunch.http://www.therevealer.org/archives/timely_003060.php Big Baptist Blowout! Little Press.- June 13, 2008 Big, big story missed by the press: Messengers to the Southern Baptist Convention's annual meeting, held in Indianapolis, rejected the relatively moderate vision of outgoing SBC president Frank Page by electing -- with big numbers -- Johnny Hunt, an Atlanta...http://www.therevealer.org/archives/today_003059.php Bomb Throwers and Hall Monitors- June 4, 2008 Sharlet: Mark Silk, an eminent scholar of religion, politics, and journalism, takes issue with my Casting Stones post on the how the press is re-arranging its account of Obama's ascent now that his victory is assured...http://www.therevealer.org/archives/timely_003058.php |