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In the category of timelines, notice what the conversation about race used to sound like....

The previous post included the observation that tracing the United States' roots to a Christian...

I appreciate Jeff Polet's point about the problems of talking about an American Founding: A...

Many have faulted former President Trump's 1776 Commission for not being historical and not even...

During the era of Trump, lots of evangelical thought leaders have indicated they are not...

Presbyterians and Puritans used to matter. Today, they rarely make the news. Baptists and Mormons...

Remember how bad the environment was? The leaders of the Sierra Club, Wilderness Society, Audubon...

H. L. Mencken thought that English Protestants used a different vocabulary from their fellow communicants...

David French doesn't want you to confuse him with evangelical Protestants who do not receive...

Massimo Faggioli makes it seem that Joe Biden will bring a new or better set...

I did not know it was acceptable to otherize another group but John Fea does...

By now everyone knows about virtue signaling, the way to show you are good, decent,...

What if economics and geography matter more than religion for electoral outcomes? Ken Woodward discussed...

What to make of Joe Biden as a Roman Catholic politician? The categories for evaluating...

Not that the former president of Liberty University didn't make for some titillating headlines, but...

Some observers of evangelicalism are obsessed with Falwell, in part seemingly because he is another...

Nostalgia has been on the ropes lately. The reason is apparently a new reckoning with...

The objections to the news that Turkey plans to use Hagia Sophia as a mosque...

"Trust the science" has been a phrase used fairly often during the pandemic. Recent news...

Recent protests along with some of the demands of protesters, no matter how peaceful, may...

This is not about Germanic tribes after the Christianization of the Roman Empire. It is...

They may be your and my neighbors. One of the themes that emerged in the...

Not there! New York City's Natural History Museum, with the blessing of Mayor Bill DeBlasio,...

FiveThirtyEight carries a story on disease among African-Americans and includes a map of the states...

Back at the beginning of the various state and federal directives to stay at home...

The Amish have thick communities in which members are not autonomous but are deeply embedded...

The rise of a gay rights movement coincided with the emergence of the religious right...

French and Goldberg used to write for National Review but recently moved to an outlet...

First, they rejected business: Finney preached even more explicitly against the mores of business. “The...

The piece by Tara Isabella Burton in the New York Times on weird Christianity is...