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   Megachurches & Money Some of the best religion reporting in The New York Times appears in the Business Section, under the byline of Diana B. Henriques. Her latest, "Megachurches Add Local Economy to Their Mission" -- with Andrew W. Lehren -- is hardly... [ Continue reading: ] 2007 Favorite Books By Jeff Sharlet
The British New Statesman asked me to contribute to their round-up of best books of the year. Unfortunately, I didn't understand the word count, and as a result only a 1/3 of my picks made it. (See the rest of the picks, from Amit Chaudhuri, Billy Bragg, Michela Wrong, and others, here.) Such lists, by anyone but the most devoted (and fulltime) critic, are a little silly -- my list of recent books that I want to read is much longer than what follows, as is the list of books new to me that I read this year and loved, books I should have read a long time ago. (Wuthering Heights! Middlemarch!) But that won't stop me from singing the praises of the new books I found especially interesting in light of my work for The Revealer...
[ Continue reading: ]  The Argument: Youtube According to Virginia Heffernan, Youtube rants about religion, "part atavistic race riot, part religious disputation and part earnest effort at enlightenment," are the medium's most-discussed videos.... [ Continue reading: ]  The Faith Between Us Now in bookstores! The Faith Between Us: A Jew and a Catholic Search for the Meaning of God, by Revealer contributing editor Scott Korb and Killing the Buddha contributor Peter Bebergal.
[ Continue reading: ] American Academy of Religion Jeff Sharlet: Revealer contributing editor S. Brent Plate writes, "From stone tablets to scrolls, printing presses to the Internet, artists, journalists, and believers of all stripes have used the advanced technology of their age... [ Continue reading: ] |