Dave Ramsey, corporate media, and how we talk about financial distress.

Church-loving surf instructor Matthew Taylor Coleman fell into online conspiracy theories, then allegedly admitted to killing his kids to save the world. How did no one see it coming?

At Moody Bible Institute, purity culture and complementarianism have worked together to forgive abusers and punish the abused.

Sarah Green escaped her mother’s cult 22 years ago. She still thinks about those she left behind.

A visit to the Christian rock Cross-Over Festival in Lake of the Ozarks, Missouri.

She tore up a picture of the pope. Then her life came apart. These days, she just wants to make music.

A small Georgia town, a prophecy about Donald Trump, and the story of how a miracle fell apart.

Rio de Janeiro drug gangs are embracing evangelical Christianity.

I sometimes miss believing, and look toward the days when I was satisfied by testimony—by the feeling that there were encounters everywhere, all seeming to attest to some great mystery.

How the Christian film industry works.

A teenager faces a series of escalating life challenges.

During the 90s, David Bazan was Christian indie-rock’s first big crossover star. Then he stopped believing.

In the ’50s and ’60s, the Reverend Will Campbell marched with MLK Jr. and worked to desegregate the University of Mississippi. Later, broke, he took a job as Waylon Jennings’ roadie and occasional spiritual guru. Afterward, his ministry grew even stranger and more itinerant.

The Southern Baptist church, which has its origins in a split over slavery, at an election-year crossroads.

An ancient document suggests that Jesus had a wife. But an investigation into its origins leads to … Florida.

The ongoing question of forgiveness in Charleston, where Dylann Roof opened fire in a church on June 17th.

On America, Christianity, and “ignorance, intolerance, and belligerent nationalism.”

The gospel according to nine-year-olds; a missionary group that won the right to evangelize in schools and how children process their message.

On Westmont College, a “feeder school” to the upper ranks of the Christian conservative movement.

In this excerpt from Colm Tóibín's Booker-nominated novel, Mary recounts the story of the raising of Lazarus from the dead.

"I know, because Marcus told me, that Mary and Martha, the two sisters of the dead boy, began to follow my son once they had heard the news of the lame walking and the blind seeing. And I understand that they would have done anything in those last silent days. They watched helplessly as their brother grew easily towards death in the same way as a source for a river, hidden under the earth, begins flowing and carries water across a plain to the sea. They would have done anything to divert the stream, make it meander on the plain and dry up under the weight of the sun. They would have done anything to keep their brother alive. They sent word to my son and they asked him to come but he did not. It was something I learned when I saw him myself, that, if the time was not right, he would not be disturbed by a merely human voice, or the pleadings of anyone he knew."

What prompts a woman to exit society and marry God? Inside a modern convent in Texas.

On a former Louisiana preacher who converted to Atheism.

The secretive financial behemoth that is the American Catholic Church.

A youth set to the shifting sounds of CCM, Christian Contemporary Music:

This, by the way, is considered the ultimate sign of quality CCM, even amongst Christians: the ability to pass as secular. Every band’s goal was to have teenagers stop their grooving mid-song and exclaim, like a soda commercial actress who’s just realized she’s been drinking Diet, “Wait, this is Christian?”

How the Jesuit Church refused to stop pedophile priest:

"He truly is the Hannibal Lecter of the clerical world. He did more psychological and physical damage to children than anyone else. And what makes it worse is that the Jesuits knew about it, and did nothing."