BLOGS



The Revealer | http://therevealer.org/

I created The Revealer for New York University’s Center for Religion and Media, with a grant from the Pew Charitable Trust, in 2003. Contributors include academic scholars, journalists, and activists interested in how the press covers religion. A few of my favorite posts:

Killing the Buddha | http://killingthebuddha.com/

Peter Manseau, Jeremy Brothers and I created Killing the Buddha in 1999 as an online magazine of “God for the godless.” KtB, we said, “is a religion magazine for people made anxious by churches, people embarrassed to be caught in the ‘spirituality’ section of a bookstore, people both hostile and drawn to talk of God. It is for people who somehow want to be religious, who want to know what it means to know the divine, but for good reasons are not and do not.” Since then, other editors have killed the Buddha (relax; it’s a Buddhist concept), including Paul W. Morris and Laurel Snyder. In 2008, a new staff has taken the reins: Marissa Kantor, Ashley Makar, and Meera Subramanian. In 2004, KtB.com incarnated in print, and in 2009 Beacon Books will release an anthology, Believer, Beware. A few of my favorite pieces from KtB:

Call Me Ishmael | http://jeffsharlet.blogspot.com/

Call Me Ishmael is the bloggiest of blogs, an online journal I made to avoid writing the words I get paid for. Some of the things I most enjoyed babbling on about:

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