sex scandals

New Hulu documentary recaps rise of Moral Majority and downfall of Jerry Falwell Jr.

By Emily McFarlan Miller — November 3, 2022
(RNS) — ‘God Forbid,’ which clocks in at nearly two hours and carries a TV-MA rating, released this week on streaming platform Hulu.

Is the evangelical view of sex at the root of our sex scandals?

By Sheila Wray Gregoire — February 18, 2021
(RNS) — It was not celebrity culture that taught Ravi Zacharias, Carl Lentz and countless other pastors to objectify women. Our evangelical culture primed them for it.

Leadership by old men: In Mormonism, gerontocracy is a blessing and a curse

By Jana Riess — February 15, 2021
(RNS) — With an average age of 90, top Mormon leaders are unlikely to be named in headlines about religious sex scandals. The cost of gerontocracy, though, is that they are also resistant to needed social change.

Evangelical Alabamans: Don’t vote for Moore, even if his Christian presuppositions are correct

By Kent Van Til — December 8, 2017
(RNS) — My uncle, Cornelius van Til, the originator of presuppositional apologetics, would not have endorsed extending them to a voting mandate, writes Kent Van Til. (COMMENTARY)

Pope Francis: ‘A pope is a man who laughs and cries’

By Eric J. Lyman — March 5, 2014
ROME (RNS) In a wide-ranging interview with the Italian daily Corriere della Sera, Pope Francis said media and popular culture references comparing him to Superman are "offensive" because he's just a regular guy.
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