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This list, in links and headlines, just skims the surface. But it gives a sense of what to watch for in 2013.

Last year’s big LGBT religion stories will get bigger in 2013.

There is no justification; there is no larger logic, no theologically exposed silver lining. This misery is all too human—the imposition of an individual’s twisted will on others with deadly consequences. Appeal to God doesn’t fix this; it doesn’t explain it.

Religion writers, both journalists and scholars, have had much to say of late about the continued growth of the religiously unaffiliated—especially given the impact of so-called “ Nones” in the recent presidential election. But much of what’s been written fails to highlight finer distinctions among Nones. So how to better understand this fast-approaching tipping point in American religion and spirituality?

A list from our friends at GLAAD.

They should have taken the week off.

Women in pants, gay pride, a certain presidential candidate, and the athletes who probably outranked him in popularity.

Satirist and right-wing watcher Becky Garrison imagines a memorial for a movement.

An RD holiday sampler of stories & viewpoints we would have liked to read in 2012.