This morning

• Christa Brown explains what the recently replicated Milgram experiment tells us about how clerical sex abusers abuse their authority and the trust of their victims.
• Michael Paulson of the Boston Globe writes that "The Christian Science Church faces declining membership and a series of unsuccessful ventures ... .
• Dan Gilgoff at God & Country defends Rick Warren from unflattering comparisons with Billy Graham.
• Mark Silk at Spiritual Politics notes Billy Graham's struggles with the "formidable" Christian right of the 1950s.
• Kyle reports on yesterdays call to arms against the administration of President-elect Barack Obama and the Democratic majorities in Congress by Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, and Gary Bauer, president of American Values.
• Jonathan D. Sarna at On Faith says the only solution to the Hamas/Israel conflict is to temper inflexible religion with flexible politics.
• Holy Weblog is creeped out by the numbers of flag-waving angels on the heads of pins.