Christian values

Remembering Howard Thurman and other forgotten activists.

Jeff Sessions used it to justify his policy of family separation, but he’s not the first to invoke the biblical passage.

Sunday school was a major part of nineteenth century reformers’ efforts to improve children’s lives and morals.

Again and again, a fervant British anticommunist's filmstrip of the novel shows images of women in states of distress.

Belief that schools must teach moral values is older than public schools themselves. But whose morals?

What should children learn in school? It's a question that's stirred debate for decades, and in 1974 it led to violent protests in West Virginia.

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?

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

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?

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

Charles Sherrod wasn’t a big name, but his life has a lot to tell us about the civil rights movement.

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

Few who encounter Positive Psychology via self-help books and therapy know that its gender politics valorize the nuclear family and heterosexual monogamy.

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

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

How Christian conservatives' version of American history shaped the Supreme Court’s abortion and gun decisions.

Despite the repeal of Prohibition, alcohol consumption was an enormous political issue for many white American Protestants.

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.

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

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