Belief

Many faiths face conflicts over institutional control. In Latter-day Saints history, the episode around the ‘September Six’ is particularly memorable.

What Betty and Barney Hill's alien abduction story reveals about America.

Betty and Barney Hill lost three hours on a New Hampshire highway in 1961. They spent years trying to understand it.

To fully understand the deep roots of today’s white Christian nationalism, we need to go back at least to 1493.

On the 50th anniversary of "The Jewish Catalog."

On the complex relationship between Black Americans and the Black church.

In yoga’s early days in the United States, skeptics warned it would lead people (e.g., women) of good faith and standing into paganism and ill repute.

An iconic moment deeply shaped by Quaker beliefs on gender and equality.

When drafting the Constitution, our founders had no need of prayer.

Moral panics repeat, again and again.

In “The 272,” Rachel L. Swarns sets out how the country’s first Catholic university profited from the sale of enslaved people.

The Protestant ethic and the spirit of wokeness.

Enslaved people have been largely left out of the origin story traditionally told about the emergence of Catholicism in the United States.

The political preacher who made the religion look bad.

Farewell to the senator's son who pioneered a TV genre, helped create the Christian right, ran for president, and earned the grudging respect of Abbie Hoffman.

Through the tragedies and uncertainties of the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln may have found a deepened connection to his religious faith.

Dwight L. Moody and the 1884 Haymarket Affair offer a look at what happens when Christians side with the wealthy instead of working class.

Union soldiers improvised a Passover celebration near what's now Fayetteville, W.Va. They're being honored with a sign at the approximate site.

A conversation with historian David Hollinger about the rise of evangelicalism, the decline of mainline Protestantism, and the nature of America's secularism.

How Cesar Chavez married faith and ideology in his landmark farmworkers' march.

Many Americans who advocate it have little interest in religion and an aversion to American culture as it currently exists. What really defines the movement?

How the utopian notion of the U.S. as a meritocracy became so ingrained in the American psyche.

The partnership between rabbis and labor that delivered the two-day weekend.

How dreams of other worlds, above and below our own, reflect the unfulfilled promises of Emancipation.

A new book links President Garfield’s killer to the free love and religious fervor that gripped Oneida, N.Y., in the late 1800s.

The story of Swami Vivekananda and his time in America.

The contemporary rise of Christian nationalism in the US is a reactionary response to the country’s liberalization over the past half-century.

History and controversy in the architecture of the Latter-day Saints.

A new book recounts the complex story of a largely forgotten episode from 1977, when an armed Muslim group held dozens of people hostage.

It’s a political movement willing to align with anyone to win.