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RD Editor Gary Laderman asked in a recent Op-Ed: “What Do Christians Believe?” Here, a writer and a pastor take a stab at addressing that provocative question.

Holding the Catholic Church to account.

Hiring “according to our faith,” funded by taxpayers.

Rapping rationalism.

Clerics exploit religion for political power.

As the half-season closes on this sci-fi epic, we take inventory on where the show has gone, and gone wrong. Among the robots, avatars, and people who love them, there are a lot of big ideas, but not enough story.

From an all-male hierarchy that trains priests to look only to their superiors for guidance, to a theological emphasis on secrecy, to the “creeping infallibility” that confers divine authority on church leaders, the Catholic church needs reform—at a structural level. And it’s up to the laity to begin the process.

An order of queer nuns, founded in San Francisco thirty-one years ago, the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence is now a full-fledged pastoral and charitable organization, having given away more than a million dollars. They’ve also raised pioneers in LGBT and AIDS/HIV rights to sainthood, creating their own holy calendar.

An exhibit now at the New York Institute of Technology features the designs of theoretical architect Jonathan Block Friedman.

Fundamentalism tries to erase how Jesus was a dangerous rebel.