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The Obama administration has gone from indifference to actively promoting religious opposition to the civil rights of gay Americans, comparing same-sex marriage to incest and pedophilia. Only when “pink dollars” were pulled did the president approach the LGBT community. A former priest suggests how to make Obama listen.

What does it mean that Rhodes Scholar and Progressive Evangelical Brad Braxton resigned as senior pastor of the influential Riverside Church? In this discussion over the implications, a reverend and a scholar ask whether multiracial churches require making white people comfortable, why God needs liberal protestants to get out of the bubble, and what the future holds for the mainline church as a whole.

18th-century visionary financier John Law and 21st-century crook Bernie Madoff both had compatriots with a ravenous desire for free money—the vice that drove the systems in which these kindred spirits operated.

Instead of praying for “foundations of Satan” to be wiped from the U.S.A., we might instead dedicate ourselves to praying that our own selfishness and tribalism be wiped from the entire planet.

In a recent Times Op-Ed neoconservative Edward Luttwak labeled Barack Obama “an apostate from Islam,” and that “would cause… complications in our dealings with the Islamic world,”

The controversial document renews debate on the role of evangelicals in electoral politics…

With the success of We Believe Ohio et al., progressive religious voices are breaking through…

A recent statement by a Vatican astronomer opens a theological can of worms…

A hip new apostolic movement with claims of a direct line to God, molding the young for God’s kingdom with sexual purity, 24/7 prayer, and asceticism.

A standard misconception of the religious right is to privilege sexual “sins” over the sin of, say, a lack of economic justice for women. A story from Genesis 38 retold…