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In this fourth installment of Mark Dery’s cultural critique-cum-“nonfiction novella” about a born-again teen’s transcendent encounter with Ziggy Stardust in the 1970s, our hero reckons with a conflicted Christ and watches in disgust as his beloved friday night coffee house is subsumed by the very church it served as an alternative to.

No more money for the Republican National Committee.

Waiting for the fundraising email arguing for the repeal of “religion” as a federal minority that enjoys protection against discrimination in hiring.

In the midst of the worst crisis to hit Roman Catholicism in centuries, it is clear that the all-male rule of the Church has failed.

A new book intended to redirect evangelical Christianity from its narrow focus on doctrine to a broader commitment to the amelioration of suffering and stewardship of the environment meets with hostility from a panel of seminary professors.

Christian Soldiers of the Apocalypse have been running around the woods of Michigan planning attacks on federal law enforcement in their war against the Antichrist. How does the Hutaree Militia fit into the history of American militias and conspiracy theorists?

Rev. Janie Spahr will go on trial before the church for performing a legal marriage in California.

Hutaree arrests hightlight folly in Muslim profiling

When Pope Benedict refers to the ever-growing scandal threatening the Church as “petty gossip of dominant opinion” he shows, for all his theological learning, a shocking disregard for both his flock and for the moral standing of the institution he heads. Is it curtains for the Church as we know it?

In the midst of new developments in the Catholic sex abuse scandal and in light of last year’s surprise invitation from the Pope to conservative Episcopalians, a new invitation is extended to disheartened Catholics.