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Nov 11, 2024 | 
therevealer.org | Jamie Valentino |Brett Krutzsch
Although artificial intelligence may seem on its way to omnipotence today, it was in 2015 that former Google executive Anthony Levandowski became the first to promote AI as God and file the paperwork to register the church.
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
therevealer.org | Andrew Whitehead |Brett Krutzsch
At an Iowa rally in late 2023, former president Donald Trump proclaimed, “As soon as I get back in the Oval Office, I’ll also immediately end the war on Christians. I don’t know if you feel it. You have a war. There’s a war. . . Christians and Americans of faith are being persecuted and government has been weaponized against religion like never before.” As Trump knows well, the language of war and persecution can spark a group’s desire for survival, defense, and retribution.
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Jun 11, 2024 | 
therevealer.org | Noah Berlatsky |Brett Krutzsch
“It’s a good religion,” my grandmother liked to say to her daughter, my mother. Grandma Raedina was Jewish, as were all my relatives on both sides of the family. But in this case the religion she was touting wasn’t Judaism. It was Christian Science. The connection between Jews and Christian Science has mostly been forgotten. But my grandmother’s flirtation with Christian Science wasn’t unusual.
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May 8, 2024 | 
therevealer.org | Brett Krutzsch
Early in April 2024, India’s top educational body quietly made changes to millions of school textbooks. Key amongst these changes was the removal of references to the Babri mosque, a medieval mosque publicly demolished in 1992 by far-right Hindu nationalists, who believed the mosque’s location was home to a former temple dedicated to the Hindu deity Lord Ram.
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Apr 4, 2024 | 
therevealer.org | Jamie Valentino |Brett Krutzsch
Pope Francis acknowledges my gay identity more than my own grandmother – a surprising contrast, considering they are both devout Catholics of the same generation. Somehow, a childless monarch of the Vatican City State has been more accepting than a woman who helped raise me. My grandmother loves me unconditionally but never utters the word “gay.” I’ve always interpreted her silence on the matter as a casualty of faith.
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Apr 4, 2024 | 
therevealer.org | Ken Chitwood |Brett Krutzsch
Hannah remembers exactly where she was when she got the news her father was killed by a hit-and-run driver. Out for dinner and drinks with friends in Seattle, she noticed the missed call first. Then, the text messages from her older sister. When she stepped outside to talk to her mom on the phone, her father was already gone. “I just stood there, frozen,” the 38-year-old said, “looking out and taking in the details. The way the sidewalk smelled after recent rain.
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Apr 4, 2024 | 
therevealer.org | Brett Krutzsch
Dear Revealer readers,In December I was contacted by a reporter for CBS News to do an interview about the pope’s “comments about blessing same-sex couples.” When the reporter emailed, I was on the island of Saint Martin celebrating my 10th wedding anniversary, my own same-sex union. My husband and I had agreed not to check our work email or read the news while away so we could enjoy some island tranquility.
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Mar 7, 2024 | 
therevealer.org | Brett Krutzsch
The following excerpt comes from God Gave Rock and Roll to You by Leah Payne. (Copyright © 2024 by Leah Payne and published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved.) The book explores the history of Contemporary Christian Music (CCM) and what that industry reveals about white evangelical culture in the United States. This excerpt comes from the book’s introduction, “CCM and the Industry of American Evangelicalism.”***Fourteen-year-old David Shields was nervous. Really nervous.
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Mar 7, 2024 | 
therevealer.org | Ken Chitwood |Brett Krutzsch
“We’ve been here before,” Margarita says as she holds a sign with bold, red and green letters exclaiming, Basta ya genocido! Variously translated as “enough is enough” or “stop already,” basta ya is a Spanish exclamation of exasperation. And Margarita is exasperated.
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Feb 6, 2024 | 
therevealer.org | Brett Krutzsch
The following excerpt comes from The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church by Sarah McCammon. (Copyright © 2024 by the author and reprinted by permission of St. Martin’s Publishing Group.) The book explores the growing movement of people leaving evangelical Christianity, problems within evangelical communities, and connections between white evangelicals and rightwing politics.
