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Part of the scandal of American Christianity is that statistically the U.S. is the most Christian country in the world, and yet as a country we have the greatest income inequality in the world. And as a country we are uncritically committed not simply to being the most powerful nation in the world militarily, but to being as militarily powerful as the rest of the world combined.

This list, in links and headlines, just skims the surface. But it gives a sense of what to watch for in 2013.

Last year’s big LGBT religion stories will get bigger in 2013.

Religion writers, both journalists and scholars, have had much to say of late about the continued growth of the religiously unaffiliated—especially given the impact of so-called “ Nones” in the recent presidential election. But much of what’s been written fails to highlight finer distinctions among Nones. So how to better understand this fast-approaching tipping point in American religion and spirituality?

There is no justification; there is no larger logic, no theologically exposed silver lining. This misery is all too human—the imposition of an individual’s twisted will on others with deadly consequences. Appeal to God doesn’t fix this; it doesn’t explain it.

A list from our friends at GLAAD.

They should have taken the week off.

Women in pants, gay pride, a certain presidential candidate, and the athletes who probably outranked him in popularity.

Satirist and right-wing watcher Becky Garrison imagines a memorial for a movement.