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The megachurch movement flourished for decades on the premise that the infinitely flexible style could be separated from the enduring substance. Apparently, they were wrong.

Trump’s fealty to evangelical leaders may be sowing the seeds of a Christian autocracy that can easily be replicated by a future GOP president.

When asked to write about McCain’s religion I thought I’d review the alignment between the American military and American religions. What I found is as much about what the American public needs to hear about religion as it was about what McCain felt or thought about religion.

Recent moves by the deeply conservative Russian Orthodox Church, combined with acts of Russian state aggression, can only be seen as concrete efforts to undermine liberal democracy around the world.

What’s needed is a massive overhaul so that Catholic communities can be run by trained lay people rather than be ruled by incompetent and sometimes criminal bishops.

For queer Catholics, the only way to establish ourselves as mature adults is through marriage, ordination, or religious vows—all of which are forbidden.

The emphasis on largely white contexts in national media coverage of Catholic clerical sexual abuse in the United States obscures the ways race and colonialism have structured the crisis in other communities.

There are reasons to be dubious about the allegations put forward by culture warrior Carlo Maria Viganò, a Benedict XVI ally.

Even if the Church implemented safeguards it wouldn’t be enough. That’s because the Catholic clergy’s sexual crimes against children are a consequence, not a cause, of the church’s criminality.