Belief

Fifty years ago, zealots preaching misogyny and homophobia—led by an accused sexual predator—took over America’s largest Protestant denomination.

How British protestantism connected colonies and empire until the rupture of the American Revolution.

We will never truly achieve racial justice until we, collectively, learn how to treat and heal the wound of white supremacy.

Liberal Protestants built a global elite in the 20th century. Its fracturing holds a caution for evangelicals today.

Missionaries spread the idea that Christianity accounts for American success throughout the world.

To understand why evangelicals vote Republican, we shouldn’t focus just on Falwell; we need to look at a century or more of evangelical political culture.

Two preachers who shaped American Christianity diverged sharply on whether to protest or exploit slavery, with consequences that persist today.

Southern Baptists were seeking a religion of the heart, and in Edwards they discovered a trove of treatises, biographies, and sermons on Christian spirituality.

The disturbing conclusion might just be that evangelicalism does not exist.

Breaking down the myths of originalism and America's founding.

How progressives came to think that any recognition of Christianity by a public institution violates others’ rights.

For two centuries, America had kept questions of church and state at bay. The country is not ready for the ones to come.

Shaul Magid attempts to show us how much contemporary Jews have inherited from a man most have tried to forget.

Under the influence of Muscular Christianity, Jesus transformed into a muscle-bound Aryan, saving souls through strength and masculinity.

The concept of "heathenism" may seem outmoded, but it defines race and religion in America.

The leader of a would-be South Carolina slave rebellion was hanged 200 years ago. A new account is a must-read.

The religious origins of American liberalism.

The US Supreme Court's most recent decisions undermine centuries of established secularism within American government.

Bombshell revelations won’t hurt the former president with his core supporters. We have only to look at Oliver North to know why.

Pauli Murray, the first Black woman to be ordained by the Episcopal Church, was an advocate for women’s rights and racial justice.

The Weisman family objected to religious prayers at a 1986 school graduation. The case went to the Supreme Court, which is again ruling on prayer in schools.

How the Southern Baptist Convention’s views on abortion changed during the 1980s, when a more conservative wing seized control of the denomination.

Can the origins of American religious freedom be traced to the religious and political history of England and its empire?

The Quaker spiritual journey, often invisible due to its silent, humble and individual nature, is illustrated in this map.

The Southern Baptist Convention is tearing itself apart over its leaders’ long-running cover-up of abusers in its ranks. But there’s a deeper reckoning below.

Harry Emerson Fosdick's ‘Shall the Fundamentalists Win?’

Evangelicals started speaking out against legal abortion long before the late 1970s.

How the decline of liberal religion transformed American Christianity — and politics.

The author of new book explains the fraught and turbulent relationship between religion and government in the U.S.

Some accounts suggest that the Passover Parade was even more glamorous than its famous counterpart, the Easter Parade.