More and more people are feeling betrayed and abused by the church. Why?

Don’t mistake the hit movie as shallow or silly — from “America” — the Jesuit magazine

Jason Aldean’s “Small Town” is part of a long history of country music going after big cities, often carrying racist messages.

Did the Protestant Reformers change and have new ideas on sexual ethics? Jason Lief, on The Reformational, engages Nick Wolterstorff’s recent piece on the CRC

Absalom, Joab, and David — from Carol Bechtel.

Ben Corey on Patheos asks an interesting question. Shouldn’t intelligent atheists be more nuanced Bible readers?

NPR explores how megachurches continue to grow. Do they “drive out” the “mom and pop stores”/medium and small churches?

Charles Marsh on the unique witness of Will Campbell.