The Devil Attends Church: A Detective's Investigation into Power, Trauma, and the Systems We Call Holy (Available winter of 2026)

When sacred spaces fail, where do the wounded go?

As a Special Victims detective, minister, educator, and survivor, Kevin D. McNeil has spent a lifetime confronting the darkest realities of human behavior. But nothing prepared him for the patterns he began to see inside the institutions meant to heal them.

In The Devil Attends Church, McNeil opens a case file on harm in sacred spaces, examining how systems designed to represent God can drift into protecting power, reputation, and stability instead of people. Drawing on crime scenes, counseling rooms, scripture, and decades of trauma research, he asks a question few dare to voice.

Why does abuse persist in places devoted to love, healing, and truth?

This is not a book against faith; it is a search for integrity. With the precision of an investigator and the compassion of a pastor, McNeil exposes how silence, misplaced loyalty, and unexamined authority allow suffering to continue; and how the mission of Jesus offers a radically different path.

For anyone who has been hurt by religion, confused by institutional failure, or longing for a faith that actually heals, this book offers clarity, courage, and hope.

Not a verdict. A witness.

Not destruction. Restoration.