Jeff Sharlet
Jeff Sharlet is co-editor of Believer, Beware: First-Person Dispatches from the Margins of Faith (2009), author of the New York Times bestseller The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power (2008), and coauthor, with Peter Manseau, of Killing the Buddha: A Heretic's Bible (2004).
That Old Time Religion
Still strange, but different: Three new books look at the changing shape of religion in America.
A Truancy Officer’s Tale
Jesus says kids had better stay in school—or he’ll send Robert Milner to bust their asses.
Carolina Miracle Shack
What does a miracle look like? Three opinions, as revealed in Henderson, North Carolina.
Like the Goddamn Internet
James Martin’s strange paintings make him the Martin Luther of the art world.
The Many Times My Mother Died
If the body is a temple, what happens to faith when it’s destroyed?
Mmm, Doughnuts
Looking for an effective way to get your militant evangelical point across? Try fried goodness. They’re holy.
Jesus Gonna Strip You Naked
“I had on the hot pants, I said I wuz for sale! But Jesus wasn’t buyin.”
God’s Own Knowledge
A theology of sex shops, movies, and nothingness may be the biggest thing to hit Christianity since Martin Luther.





