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Louis J. Marinelli, conservative Republican and organizer of a bus tour opposing same-sex marriage, discusses his change of heart on marriage equality.

Has the “progressive Christian” big tent collapsed?

Welton Gaddy talks to Rob Bell about hell, the firestorm unleashed on his book, and what he really believes.

The University of Notre Dame had cause for its anxiety leading up to last week’s big debate between the New Atheist polemicist Sam Harris and the evangelical philosopher William Lane Craig. It’s said that all publicity is good publicity, but one needn’t strain too hard to find an exception—least of all in the history of God debates.

This week’s recap includes evidence of ongoing struggles over LGBT equality within Europe and between Europe and non-European countries, as well as the fraught intersections in many countries between…

Reading the story Sodom as being about homosexuality is like reading the story of an axe-murderer and saying it’s about an axe.

As Catholic sex abuse scandals once again dominate headlines from Boston to Belgium, and even the fast-track canonization of Pope John Paul II is marred by questions of culpability, the role of the Catholic hierarchy in enabling clergy abuse seems indisputable, admitted even by die-hard church partisans like the Catholic League. But what’s less understood is how these same patterns persist in today’s Church, where demographic shifts and a dwindling priesthood may be creating a new set of scenarios for abuse. The story of Katia Birge is a case in point.

Moving evangelicals beyond cut-and-paste arguments against LGBT inclusion

“I felt as if I had stumbled into a parallel universe, an alternate history of the Middle Ages that had been perfectly crafted for me: For most of my career, I have worked as a science writer, but my heart had first been captured by medieval sagas. The story of The Scientist Pope—one scholar called him ‘the Bill Gates of the end of the first millennium’—was a story I needed to tell.”

It shouldn’t be surprising that the most sacred concerns of Americans are also some of the most contentious political issues of our day.