evangelicalism

Right-wing evangelicalism’s moral and religious descent into Trumpism has been near-total. Is there a way out?

As evangelicals worked to gain public legitimacy during the Cold War, historians of evangelicalism search for a usable past for their fellow believers.

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

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.

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.

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

TOGETHER ’22 aims to mimic EXPLO ’72 — which provided hints about the rising conservative evangelical tide.

But it remains unfinished.

The rhetoric about abortion being the catalyst for the rise of the Religious Right collapses under scrutiny.

Its embrace of an ignominious president is forcing a long-overdue reckoning with the movement’s embrace of white supremacy and illiberal politics.

The peculiarities of how American Christianity took shape help explain believers’ vulnerability to conspiratorial thinking and misinformation.

Are the evangelicals who voted for Trump and stormed the Capitol in his defense part of the fringe of evangelicalism, or the core?

How 150 years of apocalyptic agitation culminated in an insurrection.

A term that once described a vital tradition within the Christian faith now means something else entirely.

Before the 1990s, evangelical Christians were busier resettling newly arrived refugees than trying to keep them out.

Four historians weigh in on evangelicals' affinity for Trump – and their commitment to the conservative movement more broadly.

The history of evangelicalism in America is shot through with fear—but it also contains an alternative.

If white evangelicals are united by anything, it isn't theology.

A roundup of historians' commentary about Billy Graham in the wake of his death.