sexual abuse

Like millions of others, I attended a screening of Michael during its opening week. I found myself tapping my feet to the music. By the time “Bad” played at the film’s conclusion, I was dancing my way…

Please be aware that the following article contains references to child abuse, child sexual abuse, and child sexual abuse materials. It didn’t receive a great deal of attention at the time, but among…

Heartbreaking allegations of sexual abuse at Bethel Church , a charismatic megachurch in Redding, California, has recently come to light. Bob Hartley, previously one of the core “prophets” at the…

Televangelist Jimmy Swaggart died yesterday. He’ll be remembered in many ways—as a charismatic preacher and talented singer (Swaggart was Jerry Lee Lewis’ cousin). But perhaps his most lasting legacy…

In our latest installment of “somehow this is actually happening,” Trump’s DOJ announced this week—with no apparent sense of irony or shame—that it will investigate whether a new Washington state law…

“Way too damned little and way too damned late.” That’s what one life-long Illinois Catholic woman I’ll call “Margaret” told me last week when the state’s attorney general released a nearly 700-page…

In February 2023, Tenzin Gyatso, the 14 th Dalai Lama, appeared in Dharamshala, India at an event sponsored by the M3M Foundation , a philanthropic initiative established by the M3M Group—real-estate…

In January the far-right website Townhall began publishing a four-part series on a so-called “Suburban LGBTQ Pedophile Ring.” The series, written by Townhall fact-checker Mia Cathell , claims to…

When representatives of The Episcopal Church gather in Baltimore for the denomination’s General Convention taking place from July 8-11, they’ll be asked to consider a proposed overhaul to the church’s…

On March 4, news broke that African Christian University dean Voddie Baucham was asked to accept a nomination to be President of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), the largest Baptist denomination…