Belief

The Protestant ethic and the spirit of wokeness.

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.

How freedmen navigated an unofficially segregated Methodist Episcopal Church.

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.

Remembering Mother Cabrini's humanitarian work for Italian immigrants.

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.

Jonathan Edwards’s sermon reflects the complicated religious culture of eighteenth-century America, influenced not just by Calvinism, but Newtonian physics as well.

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

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.

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

Baptists were never monolithic on the issue of slavery, but Southern Baptists were united in their opposition to Northern Baptists determining their beliefs.

Is Jefferson's Bible evidence that the Founding Fathers engaged with scripture to birth a Christian nation? Or that they sought to foster a new secular order?

That status has been taken as obvious, then questioned, then reasserted over the decades.

The Christian, the athlete, and the activist.

Luther is part myth, mascot, and mantle, symbolizing the hopes and sanctifying the heroes of American evangelicalism.

The outlines of “salvation antiquarianism”—with the emphasis on “saving”—appears particularly clearly in the AAS’s inaugural 1813 address.

The famous historian makes the claim that the demigods of American historical mythology can help us carve paths through our forbidding 21st-century wilderness.

Conservative Judaism’s origins lie in a donor plan to neutralize and refine the radical Jewish immigrant masses.

Evangelicalism and the more liberal “mainline” Protestantism must be understood in a dialectical relationship to one another, rather than in isolation.

In the 1990s, liberal intellectuals complained that evangelicals were moralistic on political questions. Now the complaint is reversed.

A new history of spiritualism during the Civil War era suggests an unexpected link between the Lincoln family and that of John Wilkes Booth.