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What are we to do when the spiritual leaders we expect to give us life take their own? I have been pondering this question, among many others, in the wake of national media reports about the suicide of 42-year old Teddy Parker Jr., pastor of Bibb Mount Zion Baptist Church.

Police targeted Muslims in cafes, stores, mosques.

Is it really feasible to have this conversation without any reference to human values?

LDS Church turns away women seeking equality and access to men’s-only meeting.

The first annual Wild Goose Festival, held in North Carolina at the end of June, was a snapshot of the state of the conversation regarding the status of LGBTQ folk in progressive Christianity.

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As largely secular protests to “Occupy Wall Street” advance in fits and starts, capitalism and church negotiate to bring the best of both to bear on the world’s most intractable problems. Except, not quite.

In your circles, there could be two or three or five people with whom you could have a “God-glorifying marriage.”

At first glance, Tony Perkins, who recently complained that the Secretary of State isn’t doing enough to stop “liberal activism around the world,” might seem an odd fit for a committee designed to…

For those who wonder about the religious dimensions of the Tea Party movement, an event earlier this month at Faith Baptist Church in Deltona, Florida, looked pretty much indistinguishable from the 1980s era church-based political organizing efforts of the religious right. As each local candidate…