Bill Gothard

Pastors listed on his Florida Faith Leaders Coalition say they were never contacted by the campaign.

Santorum banking on the Duggars.

Duggars’ big family in an information vacuum.

Foreign policy from the Book of Genesis.

A religious right favorite tests the waters.

The latest Bloggingheads.

Republicans attack Planned Parenthood over sex and contraception, but their base may care to differ.

The religious zealotry behind the push to defund Planned Parenthood means the budget deal is not the end of the Republican effort.

76-year-old never-married evangelist Bill Gothard teaches a form of wifely submission that another evangelical theologian has referred to as “the basest form of male chauvinism I have ever heard in a Christian context.” Sarah Posner had the chance to speak at length with the controversial religious leader, as well as with critics and former adherents. The picture that emerges shows the risk, and the devastation, of the abuse of spiritual authority.

What they mean when they call for “biblical law.”