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The rising human costs and political complications of culture-war homophobia.

The choices and consequences on “Nashville”—ABC’s popular drama, returning on January 15—are shaped not by evangelical faith, but by redemptive crusades to achieve an awkward, messy, and ambiguous sense of moral and musical purity. By exchanging the role of traditional southern Christianity for postmodern Bible Belt spirituality, the show brings the South into conformity with the shifting demographics of the rest of the country.

Sort of.

Some telling signs, in some quarters, at least.

An interview with “Lucien Greaves” the mastermind behind the proposal for a Satanic monument on the grounds of the Oklahoma capital.

“I was quite shocked upon learning of the relic’s loss,” said former prime minister Prince Norodom Ranariddh in a rare public statement released days after the disappearance. “As a Buddhist and the one who listed Buddhism as the state religion in the 1993 constitution, I am extremely sad, completely grievous for the loss of the Buddha relics which were a happy, peaceful, prosperous, and holy thing for our respectful country.”

Substantive structural and doctrinal issues do not evaporate just because the pope does not wear Prada.

The “church plan” exemption.

Two groundbreaking pro-LGBT Christian leaders have died.

DOJ argues that signing a form isn’t a substantial burden.