David Swartz

How a Korean Christian's encounter with racial segregation soured him on America

On February 1, 1973, Senator Mark Hatfield (R) of Oregon delivered a stinging address at...

An evangelical seminary tries to reckon with its history of white supremacy

Why I'm not ready to leave behind real books in real library

We all give thanks that the excesses of the Reformation didn’t kill Christmas in the...

Wrestling with my Anabaptist heritage during a recent trip to Germany

And how is it that my own children now celebrate Thanksgiving in their Jessamine County...

As Watergate smolders, a Bible college student proposes an evangelical political party.

David Swartz interviews Melani McAlister about her new book

Tara Westover on the context of her family's essential oils business

That evangelicals are pro-family is one of the ironies of American religious history

Franklin Graham, Eric Metaxas, and other court evangelicals remind us of the apocalyptic side of...

In its radical individualism and stress on tolerance, Baha’i appears to be a religion invented...

Nearly 40 years ago, on July 15, 1979, President Jimmy Carter went on national television...

I'm on a break from blogging as I conduct research in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. If...

I'm on a blogging break while conducting research in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. I hope you...

I’m pleased to welcome Doug Rossinow, a professor of history at the University of Oslo,...

How elves complicate the usual narrative of secularism in Iceland

“I shall not die of a cold, my son. I shall die having lived.”

The journey of a Mennonite woman from rural Kansas to international radicalism

What Liberty University and the Red Letter Revival in Virginia can tell us about the...

We recently returned from Lynchburg, Virginia, home of Liberty University and the site of the...

Though she did not overtly situate her work within feminist conversations, L’Engle nonetheless points toward...

If Madeleine L’Engle’s portrayal of communism as the evil "other" was not unusual, her antidote...

How black fundamentalists responded to Moody Bible Institute's accommodation to racial segregation

Moody Bible Institute’s pursuit of middle-class respectability led away from a soft racial egalitarianism toward...

Efforts to secure white, middle-class respectability are nothing new at Moody Bible Institute.

Why Crusade University never got off the ground

The story of evangelicals' attempt to launch an Ivy League-quality research university in the 1950s

How evangelicals abet a culture of masculine aggression